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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The economic impact of COVID on Pacific Island states, combined with major labor shortages in Australia and New Zealand, has created a perfect storm. A mass exodus means Pacific nations are now losing crucial workers at such volume that their own development prospects are being undermined. For 15…

Netflix spends an awful lot of money bringing star-powered originals and explosive blockbusters to the masses, but the streaming service’s smaller films often have a tendency to upend the established order to make a serious splash on the viewership charts, with Poland’s Lesson Plan the latest example. As per FlixPatrol, the uncompromising revenge-fueled thriller has shrugged off competition from some serious heavy hitters to become the fourth top-viewed feature on the global rankings. Director Daniel Markowicz’s…

Trying to save the planet looks less like a Marvel movie and more like tense climate negotiations that just wrapped up in Egypt over the weekend. Tens of thousands of delegates and activists from around the world gathered for the United Nations climate summit called COP27. It’s become more urgent than ever to figure out how to live in a much more hazardous world. And the only way to stop things from getting worse is for every country to live up to pollution-cutting commitments they made in the landmark 2015 Paris…

India will host a meeting of science ministers from G-20 member nations at Coimbatore in July next year during its presidency of the grouping of the world's 20 major developed and emerging economies. Besides the Science-20 Summit with the theme ‘Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Growth', the science administrators will also host the “Research Innovation Initiated Gathering (RIIG) on the theme Research and Innovation for Equitable Society.Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday chaired a…

Following two weeks of negotiations that felt doomed to go nowhere, the COP27 climate conference delivered a breakthrough deal to help developing nations cope with the often catastrophic effects of climate change. dignitaries agreed to create a “loss and damage fund” in the early hours of Sunday morning after two extra days of negotiations. The Alliance of Small Island States, an organization that includes countries whose , called the agreement “historic.” However, as with the Glasgow Climate Pact that came out of last…

Five Asean nations have inked a pact to boost connectivity and facilitate speedier cross-border payments. The agreement further supports the region's ambition to establish connected payments to drive down the cost of such payments. The central banks of Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines would look to "enhance cooperation on payment connectivity to support faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive cross-border payments". The Memorandum of Understanding was inked by Bank Indonesia,…

President Joe Biden said Elon Musk’s relationships with other countries are “worthy of being looked at.” President Joe Biden said Elon Musk's relationships with other countries are “worthy of being looked at,” though he declined to say whether the world's richest man was doing anything inappropriate. “I think that Elon Musk's cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at,” Biden said at a White House news conference Wednesday. “Whether or not he's doing anything…

As per the report, the required funding will need to be secured through external financing to reduce their carbon footprint and counter the effects of the climate crisis. The total annual investment requirement of developing countries would hit $2.4 trillion by 2030, the report says.…

Roc Nation showcased off its roster with the release of a rooftop cypher session featuring HDBeenDope, Reuben Vincent, Huey V, KUR, and Rapsody, .Hosted by Jadakiss and Young Guru, the cypher was filmed on the rooftop of Roc Nation headquarters in Manhattan, and sees each rapper freestyle over a signature beat from Jay-Z’s catalog.Rapsody, the veteran of the group, who signed with Roc Nation in 2016, kicked things off with a freestyle over the beat from The Blueprint cut “Renegade.”“I give a fuck about a list/There’s more…

via Netflix In a turn of events that absolutely everybody saw coming from a mile away, Netflix’s viewership charts are being swarmed by horror movies, spooky TV shows, and serial killer stories – with the aptly-titled Hellhole the latest to get in on the action. Per FlixPatrol, the atmospheric Polish terror has become a Top 10 hit in 36 countries around the world since being added to the library, and it’s performing so well that it currently ranks as the seventh top-viewed title on the platform’s global…