Energy access should not be the privilege of the rich only- a poor family also has the same rights on energy. G-7 countries can invest in research, innovation, and manufacturing in this field. This year on World Environment Day, we launched the Global Initiative for LiFE campaign. G7 countries can help India to take these innovations to other developing countries. Excerpts of Prime Minister of India, H. E. Narenda Modi's remarks at the session on 'Investing in a better Future: Climate, Energy, Health' at G7 Summit in Germany on June 27, 2022

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday congratulated India on 75 years of independence and said the United States and India were “indispensable partners” that would continue to work together to address global challenges in the years ahead. India will mark its 75th year of independence on Monday, celebrating the end of British colonial rule in 1947. “India and the United States are indispensable partners, and the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership is grounded in our shared commitment to the rule of law and the promotion of human freedom and dignity,” Biden said. Biden also said his country’s Indian-American community had made the United States a more innovative, inclusive, and stronger nation. RELATED STORIESSplit families still suffer after 75 years of India-Pakistan partition‘My dream came true’: Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 yearsWhy India is right not to take sides on UkraineIn a first, India allows imports of US porkSubscribe to our daily newsletterSign me upRead Next

OSLO, Norway — A walrus nicknamed Freya that attracted crowds while basking in the sun of the Oslo fjord was euthanized, Norway officials said on Sunday. Officials had previously said they were considering euthanasia for the mammal because repeated appeals to the public to keep their distance from the young female weighing 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) had been in vain. Despite repeated appeals, curious onlookers continued to approach her, sometimes with children in tow, to take photographs. Freya first gained notoriety in Norway by climbing onto pleasure boats in Kragero, an idyllic southern coastal village. The walrus is a protected species that feeds mainly on invertebrates such as mollusks, shrimps, crabs and small fish.

"We have a lot of jobs, but not enough workers to fill them," the US Chamber of Commerce, which represents American companies, said in a statement. To lure workers back, many employers have boosted pay and benefits. And if Americans' buying frenzy slows, analysts say, companies will need fewer workers. The US labor market showed new signs of vitality in July. The 22 million jobs lost due to Covid-19 have returned, and the unemployment rate is a historically low 3.5 percent.

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — When rockets scream across the skies of eastern Ukraine the people below are hostage to fortune. All have survived, for now at least, on the eastern front of the war between Russia and Ukraine where life and death seem a simple matter of chance. “I was thrown over there,” she said, gesturing to a wall and puzzling the ill luck that has made her homeless. ‘Miraculous survival’On a road outside the frontline city of Soledar, serviceman Oleg Yashchuk recounts his own near-miss in an almost giddy tone. “Suddenly a tank started shooting at us.”“It shot into the gazebo, into the water, where there were many soldiers,” he says.

In July, before making an apostolic visit to Canada, Pope Francis denied he was resigning soon. New cardinalsWould Pope Francis’ opening of the “Holy Door” be a similar indication of what may lie ahead? Incidentally, Pope Francis’ Aug. 28 visit to L’Aquila comes a day after the consistory names 21 new cardinals from 16 countries. Because Pope Francis is Argentinian, the next pope is widely expected to come from the “new world” and not from Old Europe. After the G-20 meeting in 2020, Cardinal Tagle called for debt forgiveness for poor nations.

BOLINAO, Pangasinan, Philippines — Every day, Betty Carolino, 54, would weave buri strips into different shapes of bags, planters, and mats. For years, the women of the island have been weaving bags and mats to augment their income from farming or fishing, their main sources of livelihood. Sleeping mats (banig) have also been marketed in Maldives as “beach mats,” becoming best-sellers there, Cayaon said. Cayaon said there were no flights at that time, so she could not import the buri products from the Philippines. Maldives also stopped its tourism-related operations, although some resorts continued to sell the buri products, she said.

KYIV – Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday of risking catastrophe by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of the next big front lines of the war. ADVERTISEMENTThe plant dominates the south bank of a vast reservoir on the Dnipro river that cuts across southern Ukraine. Ukrainian forces controlling the towns and cities on the opposite bank have come under intense bombardment from the Russian-held side. Russia says Ukraine is recklessly firing at the plant. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not damage the infrastructure (of the plant), do not strike where there may be a danger on a global scale.

MANILA, Philippines — Several health workers from healthcare institutions that are classified as government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) are yet to receive their benefits from the One COVID-19 Allowance (OCA). This was according to members of the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) chapters at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) and National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI), who staged protests on Friday to call on the Department of Health (DOH) to immediately provide and distribute the OCA of health workers. “The COVID benefit is a badly needed compensation for us health workers who face the daily threat of COVID-19 virus,” Pacheco said. “While health workers of some DOH-retained hospitals are already receiving their One COVID-19 Allowances, GOCC hospitals’ health workers are suffering from delayed payment of their allowances. Worse, health workers from Local Government Units (LGU) and private hospitals are not receiving their benefits,” it further claimed.

Recommendations emerging from his research were discussed in policy deliberations and included in disaster preparedness plans and, most importantly, local disaster risk management actions. U-INSPIRE is the new Asian platform for youth participation and leadership in disaster risk reduction (DRR). Since 2018, Glenn has been an Associate Professor at the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR), Sichuan University – Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Glenn is a Young Scientist of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program (IRDR), which is co-sponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). In conferring the Presidential Pamana ng Pilipino Award to Dr. Glenn F. Fernandez, the President recognizes his outstanding contributions to disaster risk management and for being the leading champion of evidence-based youth participation in disaster risk reduction in the Philippines and Asia.

Ateneo beat Japan’s Tokai University, 68-59, to bag the inaugural World University Basketball Series (WUBS) title, Friday, Aug. 12, at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Ateneo Blue Eagles (WUBS)The Blue Eagles completed their tournament sweep, besting three other teams across Asia namely Tokai, Taiwan’s National Chengchi University, and Indonesia’s Universitas Pelita Harapan. Dave Ildefonso and Paul Garcia connived down the stretch to lift the Eagles after a nip-and-tuck affair in the first three quarters. Aside from Ildenfonso and Garcia, timely baskets from Balunggay and Sean Quetevis enabled Ateneo to pull away for good and take home the WUBS crown. And hipefully we continue to strenghten the quality of our team that has come here,” said Ateneo head coach Tab Baldwin.

This Aug. 5, 2022 file photo shows a trader staring at screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City. There had been hope that recent indicators showing activity slowing would give the Fed room to be less hawkish. Wednesday's figures come at a sensitive time for world markets, which have been buffeted by a range of other issues, including the war in Ukraine, supply chain snarls and rising China-US tensions over Taiwan. Tech firms led losses in New York, with the Nasdaq off more than 1 percent, and they did so in early Asian trade. Hong Kong led losses, shedding 2 percent, while Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Wellington, Taipei, Bangkok and Jakarta also dropped.

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations expects to see a “big uptick” in applications for ships to export Ukraine grain after transit procedures were agreed on by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the United Nations, a senior UN official said on Wednesday. The number of inbound vessels is expected to “grow in the near future” as grain deals are made, said Frederick Kenney, interim UN Coordinator at the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, which oversees a deal between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations to resume Ukraine grain exports. ADVERTISEMENTRELATED STORIESRussia, Ukraine agree to protect Ukraine grain shipping channelFormer German chancellor Schroeder says Ukraine grain deal may pave way for ceasefireFirst Ukraine grain ship since start of war leaves OdesaSubscribe to our daily newsletterSign me upRead Next

MANILA, Philippines — Nearly three million Filipinos in the labor force were unemployed in June 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Monday. The PSA said the June unemployment rate was actually the same as that in May at 6 percent. “The average weekly hours worked by an employed person in June 2022 was estimated at 40.3 hours, higher than the mean hours worked obtained in May 2022 (39.8 hours) and in June 2021 (39.0 hours),” the PSA added. The PSA said this was lower than the 14.5 percent underemployment rate recorded in May 2022. “This translates to a decrease of 780,000 underemployed people from 6.67 million in May 2022 to 5.89 million in June 2022,” the PSA said.

Musk countersued, accusing Twitter of misleading his team about the true size of its user base and other problems he said amounted to fraud and breach of contract. "If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they're confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms," Musk tweeted early Saturday. Musk waived his right to further due diligence when he signed the April merger agreement. Twitter has argued in court that Musk is deliberately trying to tank the deal because market conditions have deteriorated and the acquisition no longer serves his interests. "Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations," company attorneys wrote.