With much of the world’s air traffic grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, exports of mangoes from Pakistan have been badly affected. As Rahul Radhakrishnan explains, farmers are struggling as the domestic market...
Millions affected by widespread flooding across Asia
Flooding and landslides have wreaked havoc across large swathes of countries in South Asia.
Why Face Masks Don’t Work, According To Science
So much debate over whether or not we should be wearing masks in order to fight COVlD but multiple scientific studies over the past decade have already settled this question. Not only do medical masks not prevent the...
Drunken maskless Brits force Magaulf shutdown, Spain
Drunk and obnoxious British tourists causing chaos and singing football chants… it’s lovely to see Magaluf getting back to some normality. Once the order that required anyone returning to Britain from Spain to...
Armenia-Azerbaijan forces clash along border, dozens dead
Some of the fiercest fights have broken between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been locked in a conflict for decades over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the southwest of Azerbaijan, which was seized by...
EU court scraps order for Apple to pay €13 billion in Irish taxes
A European Union high court on Wednesday ruled in favor of technology giant Apple and Ireland in its dispute with the EU over 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes, as FRANCE 24’s Brussels correspondent...
1/3 of Bangladesh flooded amid heaviest monsoon rains in years | DW News
A third of Bangladesh is under water after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade. More than a million people have been forced from their homes by heavy flooding. Forecasters warn that major rivers are expected...