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[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption Donald Trump has said he does believe the climate is changing US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a "political agenda" as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth's rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, come less than a week after climate scientists issued a final call to halt rising temperatures. The world's leading scientists agree that climate change is human-induced. Last week's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the leading international body evaluating climate change - warned the world was heading towards a temperature rise of 3C . Scientis...

[ad_1] GENEVA: The United States is seeking regime change in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday in a speech broadcast on state TV. The US is using psychological and economic warfare and questioning the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic to pursue regime change in Iran, Rouhani said in a speech commemorating the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University . [ad_2]

[ad_1] Vietnam's Mekong Delta is home to 18 million people but is regularly swamped. The land is sinking and the sea is rising, as global warming causes the water to expand and the ice caps to melt. Children at a primary school there were asked to draw pictures showing how they felt about the flooding. Some of the images they produced were particularly disturbing. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Scientists say that urgent steps need to be taken now to keep global warming from exceeding 1.5C and causing a "climate catastrophe". Current research shows that keeping that rise under 1.5C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C. But how can a few degrees make such a big difference - and why is 1.5 so important? Laura Foster explains. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Image copyright Yale Image caption William Nordhous's research has been to used to examine the consequences of climate policy interventions This year's Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for their work on climate change. The pair's research shows how human activity has caused global temperature to rise over the last 100 years. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said they had addressed "some of our time's most basic and pressing questions" about sustainable growth. The duo will receive 9 million Swedish krona (around £841,000). Prof Nordhaus, of Yale University, was the first person to create a model that described the interplay between the economy and the climate, the academy said. Prof Romer, of New York University's Stern School of ...

[ad_1] Image caption The threat of climate change exercises the minds of even the youngest in Vietnam One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary school in Can Tho province, a region of Vietnam that is regularly swamped. They live in the Mekong Delta, a huge plain of rivers and rice-fields that's popular with tourists but lies only just above the surface of the ocean. The land itself is sinking and, at the same time, the level of the sea is rising, as global warming causes the water to expand and the ice caps to melt. That's why the delta, one of the world's greatest centres for rice production and home to 18 million people, is recognised as...

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of seeking a change of power in the White House, stepping up allegations of electoral interference. "To put it bluntly, President Trump's leadership is working; China wants a different American president," Pence said in a speech to the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. "There can be no doubt- China is meddling in America's democracy." Pence cited China's advertisements in US media and its targeting of politically strategic states when singling out goods for retaliation following tariffs imposed by Trump. "There can be no doubt- China is meddling in America's democracy," Pence said. The hard-hitting speech comes as Trump faces a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election. [ad_2]

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The US is unlikely to revoke the suspension of aid to Pakistan until it sees substantial progress against terrorists and their safe havens, the Trump administration has told Islamabad as top officials of the two countries met here to try to reset their strained ties. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, during their separate meetings with Pakistan's new foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, are understood to have told him that in its assessment, the US does not see any changes on the ground when it comes to taking action against terrorists operating from the Pakistani soil. Given Pakistan's influence over the Taliban, the Trump administration also wants it to bring them to the negotiating table to end the nearly 17-year-long strife. The meeting between Qureshi and Pompeo is understood to have lasted for 20 minutes at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department. The White House normally does not issue a readout ...

[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters Macedonia's Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, has vowed to push ahead with plans to change the country's name to North Macedonia. A vote on the name change was non-binding, with only a third of Macedonians taking part. Ninety percent of those who voted were in favour of the change, aimed at ending a dispute with Greece, which has its own region called Macedonia. To ratify the result, Mr Zaev needs the support of two-thirds of MPs. What happens now? Mr Zaev has threatened to call early elections if MPs did not support the proposal. He and his coalition partners will need at least a dozen opposition MPs to back the move. "More than 90% of the total votes are 'Yes', so now it is parliament's turn to confirm the will of the majority," he told AFP. "I am determined to take Macedonia into the EU and Nato," he said. "It ...