{"id":6055,"date":"2023-07-19T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T05:52:08","slug":"uks-migration-crackdown-plan-to-become-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/uks-migration-crackdown-plan-to-become-law\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s migration crackdown plan to become law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GENEVA, Jul 19: As millions in the Northern Hemisphere grapple with record-breaking temperatures, the UN issued a warning Tuesday that increasingly severe heat waves could be on the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing continuing growth in the frequency, duration and intensity of heat waves,&#8221; said John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor of the World Meteorological Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These events will continue to grow in intensity, and the world needs to prepare for more intense heat waves,&#8221; Nairn told a UN briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On heat-related deaths, he said that a recent study calculated that in Europe, there were 60,000 additional fatalities last summer due to extreme heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that the figure was limited to Europe, the advisor said heat waves were becoming more widespread around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that Europe has &#8220;some of the strongest early warning systems and heat health action plans in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So, you can imagine what the numbers are likely to be globally,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nairn said the growth in simultaneous heat waves around the Northern Hemisphere had increased six-fold since the 1980s, with no sign of decreasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, July and August are the most critical months for extreme heat waves, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WMO said Monday that new record-high temperatures could be recorded as intense heat waves grip the southern US, Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East, and some countries in Asia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Jul 19: As millions in the Northern Hemisphere grapple with record-breaking temperatures, the UN issued a warning Tuesday that increasingly severe heat waves could be on the way. &#8220;We are seeing continuing growth in the frequency, duration and intensity of heat waves,&#8221; said John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor of the World Meteorological [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,46,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-law","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}