The United States and eight other Western nations that significantly contribute to the 2022 budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have chosen to suspend funding for the organisation. UNRWA was founded in 1949 to help Palestinians who were displaced …

A heat wave is a high temperature condition that can be lethal to the human body. Quantitatively, it is characterised by temperature thresholds over a region in terms of actual temperature or deviation from normal. Criterion for declaring heat wave A heat wave is defined as a maximum temperature of …