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Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
US climate envoy John Kerry will travel to the UAE, India and Bangladesh ahead of next month's climate summit hosted by Washington.
Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, but death tolls reduced due to early warning systems, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The impact of climate change 'disproportionally' affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, a UN report said.
Since being awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar's suitability as a host country has been scrutinised despite the measures it has taken to address concerns. Emad Moussa explores the double standards and racism behind the human rights rhetoric.
Several countries in the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria and Yemen are facing unprecedented outbreaks of cholera. Sasha Fahme explains how this is directly linked to conflict and climate change, and why a global response is urgently needed.
Despite continued crimes by the military junta against Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, Sam Hamad argues that the world seems to care very little, and may be turning a blind eye because the state justifies its actions using the war on terror.
Comment: The Shamima Begum ruling suggests that for Britain's ethnic minorities, our citizenship is not as 'valid' as ethnically white Britons, writes Aniqah Choudhri.