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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved $250 million for a flagship adaptation programme aimed at building resilient water and agriculture systems for vulnerable communities in the glacier-dependent regions of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Pakistan, a press release issued on Wednesday said. Led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ‘Glaciers to Farms’ programme covers nine ADB developing member countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which all rely on glacier and snow-fed rivers for agriculture, domestic water, and electricity generation. The programme will focus on four glacier-fed river basins — the Naryn and Pyanj in Central Asia, the Kura in the South Caucasus, and the Swat in Pakistan — covering roughly 27m hectares, the ADB said in a press release. The handout added that the GCF approved its concessional funding for the programme at its 43rd board meeting on October 29. It said that around 13m people, incl...

XRP continues to hold above $2.60, but there are some warning signs.

Master Sergeant (Res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum was a 37-year-old soldier from the Combat Engineering Corps in the Gaza Division, from the West Bank settlement of Neria, who was killed by Palestinian militants shooting directly at an IDF engineering team operating in Rafah

Военный аналитик Константин Машовец уверяет: нынешние россияне на фронте — совсем не те, что были год-полтора назад. Они учатся, они извлекают уроки и они совсем не такие тупые монстры, которые не знают ничего, кроме "мясных штурмов", как их принято изображать в Украине.

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Алексей Горбунов — известный украинский актер с четкой гражданской позицией. Кажется, что он исчез с экранов, но именинник продолжает сниматься в кино, давать концерты и даже пробовать себя в стриминге на Twitch.

De Nederlandse ingreep bij chipmaker Nexperia schaadt het vertrouwen onder Chinese ondernemers in Nederland. Dit zeggen deskundigen tegen deze site. Zij waarschuwen voor negatieve effecten voor Nederlandse bedrijven in China. „Chinese bedrijven zullen risico’s heroverwegen voordat ze hun geld in Europa steken.”

Тела мужчины и женщины нашли под завалами многоэтажки на улице Тернопольской в Хмельницком, где 28 октября произошел взрыв.

Les nouvelles autorités ont peiné à sortir le nouveau gouvernement censé mener le pays vers la refondation : initialement annoncé pour dimanche, puis pour lundi, il a été enfin présenté hier. Le Président de la refondation de la République de Madagascar (PRRM) et le Premier ministre ont dû en effet trouver un difficile point d'équilibre entre plusieurs facteurs primordiaux mais pas nécessairement convergents : satisfaire en même temps les aspirations au renouveau, la recherche de compétence (…) - Politique

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said early on Wednesday that the latest round of talks between Islamabad and Kabul in Istanbul “failed to bring about any workable solution”, adding that Pakistan would continue to take all possible measures to protect its citizens from terrorism. After days of fighting along the Pak-Afghan border and strikes by Islamabad on Gul Bahadur group camps in Afghanistan, the two countries had come together for a dialogue in Doha which had resulted in a temporary ceasefire, as well as a commitment to reconvene in Istanbul to work on mechanisms for lasting peace and stability between the two countries. Last week, the second round of talks between the two sides had begun in the Turkish capital. In a post on social media platform X early on Wednesday, the information minister said that Pakistan had repeatedly engaged with the Afghan Taliban regarding “persistent cross-border terrorism” by Indian-abetted Fitna-al-Khawarij and Indian proxy Fitna-al-Hindusta...

Tarek Bazrouk, 20, a self-described “Jew hater” in text messages obtained by investigators.

De emancipatie van homomannen en lesbische vrouwen mag dan juridisch voltooid zijn, in de praktijk neemt de acceptatie af, zeker onder jongeren.

Une semaine après la nomination de Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo au poste de Premier ministre de la Transition, le président de la Refondation de la République, le colonel Michaël Randrianirina, a annoncé ce mardi la composition du nouveau gouvernement. Avec 29 ministres, cette équipe se veut à la fois inclusive, expérimentée et tournée vers la reconstruction d'un pays en quête de stabilité politique et de relance économique. Le colonel Randrianirina, artisan du changement institutionnel (…) - Politique

The recapitalization gives OpenAI freedom to partner with competitors and release open-weight models, even as both firms face legal pressure.

В ночь на 29 октября российские оккупационные войска нанесли удар по городу Подольск, Одесской области, в результате чего у части жителей исчезла электроэнергия.

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