PAKISTAN: Javed Rahi’s Pakistani mountain village awoke to a tremendous boom and a torrent of water from the melting glacier nearby, accompanied by a dense cloud of smoke, as the sun rose over the horizon. It was the day before his nephew’s wedding that Rahi, a retired math teacher, was supposed to travel to Hassanabad to attend it. In May, …

China – China retaliated over US President Joe Biden’s criticism of Beijing for failing to demonstrate leadership after President Xi Jinping missed the crucial COP26 United Nations summit in Glasgow. Xi, who heads the world’s top emitter of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, has not left China since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak and has not attended …