Immediate action to tackle global warming is necessary to support efforts to end world hunger, because after a 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) increase in temperatures it would become more difficult to sustain these efforts, Zitouni Ould-Dada, the deputy-director of the Climate and Environment Division of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted on terrorist charges in Russia and has recently stopped his months-long hunger strike, has no complaints about his meals and medical care in jail, Russian human rights commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said on Wednesday.

The anti-drone defence unit of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition has seized an explosive drone belonging to the Houthi militia. The Iranian-made Qasef-1 drone was intended to be used in sites of Yemeni Legitimate Forces in the Yemen's Red Sea Coast.

The implementation of recommendations outlined in the latest UN climate change report will entail significant economic costs, but they will not be as high as the far-reaching consequences of the global warming exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) target, experts told Sputnik.

Two militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were either killed or captured by Turkish forces in eastern Agri province, local media reported on Wednesday, citing the governor's office.

The implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate is a priority for Andorra, whose economy might be seriously damaged by the global temperature increase, so it will therefore seek to persuade all the signatories to the deal to stick to its guidelines at the upcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) in Poland, Andorran Foreign Minister Maria Ubach Font told Sputnik on Wednesday.

The German government prolonged for a year allocation of aid for the country's states and municipalities over the influx of migrants and refugees, the government's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said on Wednesday.

Recent reports about the mysterious disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul should compel the US Senate to cut off weapons sales and military support to the kingdom, Senator Rand Paul said on Wednesday.

Ukraine's move to prolong the law on the special status of the country's eastern region of Donbas only misleads the central government's Western allies that are searching for positive signals from Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Gulftainer today hosted the signing of a sister port agreement between the Department of Seaports & Customs of the Government of Sharjah and the Diamond State Port Corporation (DSPC), a corporate entity of the State of Delaware, USA.