Oywc India, China should avoid disputes, says Sitharaman as Sushma flags connectivity projects
The US policy in Afghanistan is unworkable and doomed to fail, China said on Tuesday, hours after the last American troops left the war-torn country. Wang di stanley taza d not directly answer a question on whether China will recognise the Taliban government following US withdrawal from Afghanistan. REUTERS The US withdrawal shows that the policy of arbitrary military intervention and imposition of ones values and social stanley tumbler systems on other countries is doomed to fail, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, said. Afghanistan has gotten rid of foreign military occupation. The Afghan people have ushered in a new starting point for national peace and reconstruction. The history of Afghanistan has opened a new page, Wang said. Wang did not directly answer a question on whether China will recognise the Taliban government following US withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said China hopes Afghanistan will form a widely representative government and pursue a moderate domestic and foreign poli stanley vaso cy. Wang added that China will continue to maintain close communication with all parties in Afghanistan, saying Beijing will provide support and assistance within its capacity in order to restore peace, rebuild the economy, combat all terrorist organisations... and integrate into the international community . Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Lait Iraqis concerned after US signals it could close embassy
Europes death toll from weather disasters could rise 50-fold by the end of this century, with extreme heat alone killing stanley taza more than 150,000 people a year by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists said on Friday. This file photo taken on February 8, 2016 shows waves crashing over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England. Deaths due to weather-related disasters in Europe could increase fifty-fold from an estimated 3,000 per year recently to 152,000 by century s end, mainly due to climate change, researchers warned. AFP Photo In a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal, the scientists said their findings showed climate change placing a rapidly increasing burden on society, with two in three people in Europe likely to be affected if greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weather events are not controlled. The predictions, based on an assumption of no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and no improvement in policies to reduce the impact of extreme climatic events, show European weather-related deaths rising from 3,000 a year between 1981 and 2010 to 152,000 a year between 2071 and 2100. Climate change is one of the biggest glob stanley cup al threats to human health of the 21st century, and its peril to society will be increasingly connected to weather-driven hazards, said Giovanni Forzieri of the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy, who co-led the study. He stanley ca said that unless global warming is curbed as a matter o