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The 2025 Global Water Monitor Report led by The ANU demonstrates that continued warming is altering how water moves, is stored and is exchanged between the atmosphere, land and oceans, with significant consequences for societies and ecosystems, said an ANU news release.

Fuad Didic, a Bosnian political scientist and former diplomat, said that the U.S. move should not be viewed as an isolated incident but rather as part of a broader U.S. strategic framework.

The ministers expressed "serious concerns about the renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza which remains catastrophic," according to the statement released by the British Foreign Office.

Despite geopolitical tensions, higher costs, and uneven global demand, which slowed growth momentum, global trade continued to grow through the second half of 2025, UNCTAD said in its latest report.

The Madrid-based organization said in its quarterly World Tourism Barometer that over 1.1 billion people made international trips in the first nine months of the year, around 5 percent more than in the same period of 2024.

Saia Ma'u Piukala, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said in a statement released Tuesday that the discovery of antimicrobials almost a century ago changed the course of modern medicine.

The average global surface air temperature in October was 15.14 degrees Celsius, 0.70 degrees above the 1991-2020 average and 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial level (1850-1900). It was 0.16 degrees cooler than the record October in 2023 and 0.11 degrees cooler than October 2024, the data showed...

Preliminary police investigation showed the crash was a lone incident "caused by a loss of control by the tanker driver," Sa'adu said, adding that many victims sustained severe burns.

As part of the observance, all liquor outlets across Sri Lanka remain closed on Friday.

According to the report Estimating Trauma Rehabilitation Needs in Gaza, September 2025 Update, life-changing injuries account for one quarter of all reported cases, out of a total of 167,376 people injured since October 2023.