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NEW YORK: A new phase of the natural El Nino weather pattern could begin in a matter of weeks, the UN has warned, boosting temperatures on a planet already under strain from climate change.

The World Meteorological Organization said this El Nino is likely to strengthen over the rest of 2026, driving more extreme weather around much of the globe.

Several forecasts from national weather agencies suggest it could end up as one of the strongest ever recorded, a possible so-called “super” El Nino.

Predicting the exact timing and strength of El Nino can be challenging, and scientists have been watching conditions in a tell-tale region of the central Pacific for clues.

El Nino forms when a switch in wind patterns allows warmer waters to spread across the tropical Pacific Ocean and while an El Nino event had been anticipated, many scientists believe this one could be unusually powerful.

“We’re very confident that there’s a big event coming,” said Prof Adam Scaife, head of monthly to decadal prediction at the UK Met Office. “It may even be a record event.”

Part of the reason why scientists expect a strong El Nino lies deep below the ocean surface.

Data from satellites, buoys and ocean floats indicate a huge wave of unusually warm water more than 6C above average in places creeping eastwards across the Pacific, hundreds of meters deep.

The warmth of these waters “rival(s) some of the strongest El Nino events we have seen”, said Michelle L’Heureux, a physical scientist at the US science agency NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

That deep-sea heat is often a precursor to warmer waters at the surface which then heat the air above, helping to disrupt weather patterns worldwide.

“El Nino conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world,” said UN secretary general António Guterres. “Impacts will hit even harder, travel even farther, and cross borders with devastating speed.”

No two El Nino events are the same, and different places can be affected at different times of the year but a strong El Nino typically fuels hot, dry weather in parts of South America, South East Asia and Australia, raising the chances of droughts and wildfires. It can also weaken the Indian monsoon and bring drier conditions to northern parts of the Greater Horn of Africa – while heavier rainfall can increase the risks of flooding in the southern US.

El Nino can even increase the chances of a mild start and cold end to UK winters although its links with weather in north-west Europe are not as strong.

Past events have been linked to spikes in food prices and hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars in lost income globally, as crop failures and trade disruptions ripple through supply chains and economies.

As El Nino typically peaks in strength around Christmas time, it is impossible to know for sure that it will be a record-breaker with months still to go.

El Nino is very sensitive to wind patterns, for example, which are difficult to predict far in advance, “the biggest wildcard” for El Nino, according to L’Heureux but even if El Niño falls short of “super” territory, the consequences could still be extreme.

That is because we have never experienced El Nino on a planet already so hot from human-caused climate change.

The year “2027 is very likely at this point to be the [world’s] warmest year on record,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with the Berkeley Earth group in the US.

In 1998, the world had “an incredibly strong El Nino event and an incredibly hot year for the time”, he added. “If (that) happened today, it would be an incredibly cold year compared to the last two decades.” (Int’l News Desk)

]]> Seychelles’ Patrick Herminie wins presidential run-off election https://pressmediaofindia.com/seychelles-patrick-herminie-wins-presidential-run-off-election/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:19:05 +0000 https://pressmediaofindia.com/?p=131518 13-10-2025

VICTORIA: Seychelles’ opposition leader, Patrick Herminie, has won the country’s presidential race, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in a run-off vote, according to the electoral commission.

Herminie won 52.7 percent of the vote, while Ramkalawan took 47.3 percent, official results announced early on Sunday showed.

In his victory speech, Herminie pledged to lower the cost of living, revive public services and unite the island nation.

“The people have spoken,” the 62-year-old said at the headquarters of the electoral commission.

“I am deeply humbled for the trust that the people have placed in me. I will be the president of all Seychellois, and I will end divisions by ceasing preferences, and giving everyone the opportunity to thrive,” he said.

Herminie’s victory gives his United Seychelles party full control of the government after it also reclaimed a majority in parliament during the first round of the general election last month.

The win is also a complete turnaround for Herminie, who in 2023 was arrested on charges of witchcraft that were later dropped. He previously served as speaker of the country’s parliament from 2007 to 2016.

Ramkalawan, who attended the electoral commission’s announcement of the results, congratulated Herminie, who becomes Seychelles’ sixth president.

“I leave with a legacy that makes many presidents blush… I hope President Herminie continues to maintain such a level,” he said.

Images published by the Seychelles Nation newspaper showed the two leaders shaking hands after the announcement.

Outside the electoral commission headquarters, thousands of Herminie’s supporters erupted in cheers and waved the country’s flag and party banners as they greeted him following his proclamation as the winner, according to videos on social media.

The race between the two main contenders was decided in a run-off after there was no outright winner in the presidential vote two weeks ago. Early voting began on Thursday, but most people in the island nation voted on Saturday.

Herminie and Ramkalawan ran spirited campaigns trying to address key issues for voters, including environmental damage and a crisis of drug addiction in a country long seen as a tourist haven.

Ramkalawan campaigned for re-election on his management of Seychelles’ economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and expansion of social protections but voters opted for Herminie, who accused Ramkalawan of presiding over a proliferation of corruption, and promised to cancel a hotel project permitted by his government that environmentalists say threatens a UNESCO-listed coral atoll.

Herminie has also pledged to lower the retirement age from 65 to 63 and implement recommendations from a truth and reconciliation commission that examined human rights abuses related to a 1977 coup and its aftermath.

A physician by training, he previously headed the government’s anti-drug agency, and has promised to tackle the country’s sky-high heroin addiction, blamed in part on the fact that the islands sit on a drug route between Africa and Asia.

The country’s Agency for Prevention of Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation says that 5,000 to 6,000 people use heroin out of a population of about 120,000. Other estimates put the figure as high as 10,000.

Seychelles, a nation of 115 islands, is Africa’s wealthiest country per capita.

Located across 1.2 million square kilometres (463,000sq miles) in the western Indian Ocean, it is a prime tourist destination as well as a target for investment from, and security cooperation with, China, Gulf nations and India. (Int’l News Desk)

]]> Zelenskyy urges Trump to broker end to Ukraine war https://pressmediaofindia.com/zelenskyy-urges-trump-to-broker-end-to-ukraine-war/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:17:35 +0000 https://pressmediaofindia.com/?p=131511 13-10-2025

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in “the Middle East” during a phone call, saying if the United States president could stop one war, “others can be stopped as well.”

Saturday’s call came a day after Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy grid, knocking out power to parts of the capital, Kyiv, and nine other Ukrainian regions, which have since been restored.

Diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have slowed in recent weeks, in part because global attention has shifted to brokering a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, Kyiv said.

Trump, who announced the first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in August but failed to secure progress on a ceasefire in the European war.

“I had a call with US President Donald Trump. A very positive and productive one,” Zelenskyy said on Facebook, congratulating Trump for his “outstanding” ceasefire plan in the Middle East.

“If a war can be stopped in one region, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, including the Russian war,” Zelenskyy added, calling for Trump to pressure the Kremlin into negotiations.

Relations between the two leaders have warmed dramatically since February when they sparred during a televised meeting at the White House.

Trump has since grown more hostile towards Moscow while expressing sympathy for Ukraine.

In September, he wrote on Truth Social that Kyiv should try to “take back” all its occupied territory with Europe’s and NATO’s help.

US first lady Melania Trump said on Friday that she had secured the release of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia after establishing an extraordinary back channel of communication with Putin.

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five people on Saturday and cut power to parts of southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, according to Ukrainian officials.

Two of the people died inside a church in Kostyantynivka when it was hit by a strike, according to local authorities.

Using ‘Russian assets’

Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said “the main work to restore the power supply” was completed but some localised outages were still affecting the Ukrainian capital after Friday’s “massive” Russian attacks.

Ukrainian drone attacks, meanwhile, killed two people in Russia, according to regional officials.

In the Russian border region of Belgorod, a truck driver was killed by a Ukrainian strike, according to local officials.

Moscow has targeted Ukraine’s energy grid each winter since it launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, cutting power and heating to millions of households and disrupting water supplies in what Kyiv says is a brazen war crime.

Russia denies targeting civilians and says Ukraine uses the energy sites to power its military sector.

Both countries have accused each other in recent months of frustrating progress towards a peace deal.

Russia blames Kyiv and its European allies for the impasse, accusing them of undermining peace negotiations with Washington. Ukraine and Europe accuse Russia of playing for time so it can seize more Ukrainian territory. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)

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