Month: November 2024

At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change

BAKU, Azerbaijan — When more than two dozen world leaders deliver remarks at the United Nations’ annual climate conference on Wednesday, many have detailed their nations’ firsthand experience with the catastrophic weather that has come with climate change. “Over the past year, catastrophic floods in Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as well as in southern Croatia have shown the devastating impact of rising temperatures,” said Croatia’s prime minister, Andrej Plenkovic. “The Mediterranean, one of the most vulnerable regions, calls for urgent action.” The Greek prime minister said Europe and the world needs to be “more honest” about the trade-offs needed …

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У США підтвердили участь військ КНДР у боях в Курській області РФ

У Пентагоні продовжують оцінювати кількість солдатів КНДР у Курській області РФ у 10 000, від сил РФ вони здобули низку навичок, які можуть використовуватися на передовій. «Ми бачимо понад 10 000 солдатів КНДР. Більшість із них переїхали на крайній захід Курської області, де, як повідомляється, почали брати участь у бойових діях з російськими військами. На даний момент я не можу надати більше щодо того, що конкретно це спричинить або може спричинити, крім того, що ми дуже уважно спостерігаємо», – сказав речник Міноборони США Патрік Райдер. За його даними, російські війська навчили цих солдатів КНДР артилерії, БПЛА, основним діям піхоти – …

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Russia launches missile attack on Kyiv

Blasts were heard in Kyiv Wednesday after Ukraine’s air force put the nation under an air raid alert. “Putin is launching a missile attack on Kyiv right now,” the president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on the social media platform Telegram, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The air force earlier warned that a missile had entered the country’s airspace. “Attention! Missile in Chernihiv region heading for Kyiv region,” it said on Telegram. Russia launched cruise missiles from aircraft and ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian military said. “Explosions in the city. Air defense forces are working. Stay in shelters!” Kyiv …

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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

LONDON — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of the Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize for what she has called a “space pastoral” about six orbiting astronauts, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The confined characters loop through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over the course of a day, trapped in one another’s company and transfixed by the globe’s ever-changing vistas. “To look at the Earth from space is like a child …

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Суд РФ засудив уродженку Мелітополя до 5,5 року колонії – за коментар про підпал російських військових об’єктів

За версією обвинувачення, 25 травня 2024 року Оксана Павленко, перебуваючи на території Запорізької області, залишила коментар, який «закликає масово підпалювати російські військові об’єкти та знищувати громадян Росії» …

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Church of England head Justin Welby resigns over handling of sex abuse scandal

London — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.  Pressure on Welby had been building since Thursday, when release of the inquiry’s findings kindled anger about a lack of accountability at the highest reaches of the church. Helen-Ann Hartley, the bishop of Newcastle, said Monday that his position was “untenable” after some members of the church’s …

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Spain’s Valencia struggles to get children back to school after deadly floods 

CATARROJA, Spain — Thousands of students in Spain’s eastern Valencia region returned to classes on Monday, two weeks after floods killed over 200 people and devastated towns in the area. Controversy over the regional government’s handling of the floods still rages, and a teachers’ union accused it of exaggerating the number returning and leaving the clean-up to teachers and pupils. Twenty-three people remain missing in the Valencia region after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, sending tides of muddy water through densely populated city suburbs, drowning people in cars and underground car parks, and collapsing homes. A total of 47 schools …

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