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As Hurricane Melissa ripped through Jamaica, becoming the strongest-ever storm to hit the country, as a category 5 hurricane, it surpassed the power and widespread damage of Hurricane Gilbert of 1988.

The Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at) in Saudi Arabia inaugurated Biban Forum 2025 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Centre, marking the start of the Kingdom's largest annual gathering for startups, entrepreneurs, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

After a very recent count, officials in Jamaica said that Hurricane Melissa ripped the roofs off 120,000 structures when it struck last week, affecting some 90,000 families in the island’s western region, in the latest tally of the storm's toll.

"A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new," new Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a jubilant crowd in New York City - quoting India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's midnight speech of 1947, when the country awoke to freedom.

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international summit on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona, has closed its 2025 edition registering record-breaking figures.

British firm, LEOS Developments, proudly announced one of its most significant undertakings to date: the launch of a large-scale master-planned community in Dubai with a gross development value exceeding £1 billion.

Carnival Horizon made a short relief call today to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and delivered thousands of supplies to support Hurricane Melissa relief efforts across the island.

A project to restore tropical forests and a global ocean treaty initiative are among the winners of this year's Earthshot Prize.

Eight of the 10 countries most affected by climate change are in Africa: droughts, cyclones and floods are compromising agricultural production, exposing populations to food insecurity and climate-induced migration and putting pressure on key sectors critical to the continent’s development, resulting in a significant displacement of public expenditure.

It has been announced that Gopichand Hinduja, head of Britain's richest family, has died.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that last week's Hurricane Melissa, the strongest-ever storm to hit its shores, caused damage to homes and key infrastructure roughly equivalent to 28% to 32% of last year's gross domestic product.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme released the ‘Global Commitment 2025 Progress Report’, which highlights advancements in reducing plastic waste.

The Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) has joined forces with the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands to raise funds in support of the people of Jamaica as the nation continues to recover from the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm.

As part of efforts to strengthen the partnership between the AfDB (African Development Bank Group) and the Republic of Congo, and to advance preparations for the Bank Group's Annual Meetings scheduled to take place in the capital Brazzaville in May 2026, a high-level delegation from the Bank visited the country from 26 to 28 October 2025.

A helicopter recently appeared over the green, folded hills of Ukhrul in India's north-eastern state of Manipur.

Jamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming" after Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the island last week.