Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC).

The government has extended the tenures of the Import Registration Certificate (IRC) and the Export Registration Certificate (ERC) to five years from one year.

Pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine free the two American aid workers seized ten days ago.