09-02-2024 LONDON: For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first …
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09-02-2024 SAN FRANCISCO: More than 100 websites disguised as local news outlets in Europe, Asia and Latin America are pushing pro-China content in a widespread influence campaign linked to a Beijing public relations firm, digital watchdog Citizen Lab has found. Spread over websites in 30 countries, the propaganda material is …
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09-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Lawmakers in a small Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday approved landmark legislation to unify personal laws across religions, a move opposed by many minority Muslims. Approval by the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand …
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09-02-2024 PYANGYONG/ SEOUL: South Korea’s intelligence agency says poor conditions for North Koreans working overseas have led to “incidents and accidents”, while researchers report rare protests and unrest in China among workers from a North Korean military-linked trading company. Fed up with unpaid wages and lingering pandemic lockdowns, as many …
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09-02-2024 CANBERRA: Australians on Thursday cheered new proposed laws that give workers the right to ignore calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours, but some business leaders slammed it as overreach. The “right to disconnect” is part of a raft of changes to industrial relations laws proposed …
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09-02-2024 LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joked that the leader of the opposition Labour Party could not define what a woman was, during a parliamentary exchange on Wednesday that the mother of a murdered transgender girl had been invited to watch. Last week, two teenagers were jailed, opens new …
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09-02-2024 MADRID/ UNITED NATIONS: The head of the European Commission and Spain’s prime minister will visit Mauritania on Thursday seeking to help the West African country curb irregular migration to Europe amid growing concern over a jump in departures. Ursula von der Leyen and Pedro Sanchez are expected to promise …
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09-02-2024 BAGHDAD: A commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops, was killed in a US strike on Wednesday, the US military said. “(US) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on US service …
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08-02-2024 BRUSSELS: The European Commission has recommended that the European Union slash net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, an ambitious target that will test political appetite for the region’s fight against climate change before EU elections. While the overall target was within the range recommended by the …
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08-02-2024 UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is entering into an “age of chaos” as the UN Security Council remains sharply divided over Israel’s war on Gaza. Guterres said he was “especially alarmed” after Israel said last week that it intends to focus its military …
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