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Super Typhoon Fung-wong has slammed ashore in the north-eastern coast of the Philippines, officials say, with the massive storm leaving four people dead and forcing more than a million people to evacuate from flood and landslide-prone areas.

The spotlight on the 2025 CMEx laureates continues, with celebrations set for Sunday, December 7, at Loews Coral Gables Hotel in Miami.

Dubai Holding, a diversified global investment company, operating across 10 sectors and 34 countries, has officially opened applications for the second edition of its global ‘Innovate For Tomorrow Impact Accelerator 2025’.

The Caribbean is gearing up for a pivotal political season, with two general elections set to take place within days of each other.

The CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization) announced the appointment of Taraneh Azimi as its new Business Development and Marketing Manager, strengthening the organization’s leadership as it works to enhance global visibility and commercial growth for the Caribbean tourism sector.

As Hurricane Melissa ripped through Jamaica, becoming the strongest-ever storm to hit the country, as a category 5 hurricane, it surpassed the power and widespread damage of Hurricane Gilbert of 1988.

The Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at) in Saudi Arabia inaugurated Biban Forum 2025 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Centre, marking the start of the Kingdom's largest annual gathering for startups, entrepreneurs, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

After a very recent count, officials in Jamaica said that Hurricane Melissa ripped the roofs off 120,000 structures when it struck last week, affecting some 90,000 families in the island’s western region, in the latest tally of the storm's toll.

"A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new," new Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a jubilant crowd in New York City - quoting India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's midnight speech of 1947, when the country awoke to freedom.

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international summit on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona, has closed its 2025 edition registering record-breaking figures.

British firm, LEOS Developments, proudly announced one of its most significant undertakings to date: the launch of a large-scale master-planned community in Dubai with a gross development value exceeding £1 billion.

Carnival Horizon made a short relief call today to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and delivered thousands of supplies to support Hurricane Melissa relief efforts across the island.

A project to restore tropical forests and a global ocean treaty initiative are among the winners of this year's Earthshot Prize.

Eight of the 10 countries most affected by climate change are in Africa: droughts, cyclones and floods are compromising agricultural production, exposing populations to food insecurity and climate-induced migration and putting pressure on key sectors critical to the continent’s development, resulting in a significant displacement of public expenditure.

It has been announced that Gopichand Hinduja, head of Britain's richest family, has died.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that last week's Hurricane Melissa, the strongest-ever storm to hit its shores, caused damage to homes and key infrastructure roughly equivalent to 28% to 32% of last year's gross domestic product.