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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Ministry for Emergencies on Friday declared the situation in the Kursk region a “federal level” emergency, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured over the border in what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. “The operational situation in the Kursk region remains difficult,” Kursk acting governor […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. For months, […]

The City of Regina is part of an exclusive club of only 120 cities accepted globally into the “Tree Cities of the World” program by the United Nations. This is the second year in a row that the city has been recognized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and Arbor Foundation for meeting […]

A new report from researchers at the University of Saskatchewan states that Canada can be a leader in helping to achieve water sustainability, although they say the country is falling short of goals set out by United Nations. The report “Water Futures for the World We Want” takes aim at areas where the country is […]