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As the temperature around the globe is rising, melting of glaciers, ever increasing typhoons, irregular & untimely rains leading to increase in sea level effecting our day to day life, the climate change has entered to climate crisis and now climate chaos.

NEW YORK: On the morning of February 23, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump from Jerusalem with intelligence that would change the course of their war on Iran. Senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, were scheduled to gather at a compound in Tehran that Saturday, vulnerable to a single airstrike. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago when the call came through.

The big defeat of the Prime Minister Victor Orban in the national elections in Hungary held on Sunday is a big boost to the European Union in its protracted battle with the U.S. President Donald Trump over the future course of Europe. Orban who ruled Hungary for 16 years with iron hand is known as a Trump man in Europe. He was a supporter of Trump’s policy on Ukraine and opposed every move of EU which differed with Trump.

As expected, the United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with American Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington’s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad. And Iran citing lack of American commitment to the talks.

The collapse of high-stakes diplomacy over the weekend has pushed the Middle East to the edge of a far more dangerous phase—one where economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and global disruption are converging around a single chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz.

In a context of rapidly changing labour markets, a new report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that strengthening social protection for all type of workers have become urgent. Robust social protection systems are essential in helping people, societies and economies to navigate the change, it says.

NEW YORK: March Madness is over, spring is here, and Morrisania, a neighbourhood in the Bronx, is getting a resurfaced basketball court. The Lower East Side in Manhattan is getting a water fountain repaired, Sunset Park in Brooklyn is getting dispensers for dog poop bags, playground fencing in Morris Park in the Bronx is being fixed, a handball wall is being painted in East Harlem, Staten Island tennis courts is getting windscreens, and the illegal dumping in Soundview in the Bronx is being cleaned up.

After getting political and diplomatic advantage from the latest US-Iran ceasefire, China has started its preparation for hosting the U.S. President Donald Trump in its crucial summit in Beijing on May 14 and 15 this year. Earlier the summit was scheduled for March 31 and April 1 but Trump postponed that after the beginning of Iran-US war and rescheduled in May. Now, since the war is over for the time being, both China and the US are making their own preparations for the coming summit.

With no side caring for the other side’s core demands, the proposed two-week ceasefire in the Israel–US war against Iran, which started on April 8 appears to be facing big problems with neither party agreeing to the other party’s demands. Iran is ignoring the 15-point plan of Washington, while US-Israel have not agreed completely to the 10-point Iranian counterplan. However, latest reports indicate that Israel has agreed to talk to Lebanon for ceasing hostilities.

All nations in the globe except perhaps Israel have welcomed the ceasefire agreement for two weeks between U.S. and Iran announced by President Donald Trump on April 7 evening US time and later endorsed by the Iranian government. The ceasefire is fragile - Israel has bombed Lebanon killing 254 persons on Wednesday itself while Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. Both sides are blaming each other for violation of agreement.