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Why Are Oil-and-Gas Companies Developing Lesson Plans for Teachers?

The fossil fuel industry has long understood the power of the school system in shaping perceptions around climate change

The Walrus

Cyrus Poonawalla gifts ragpicker-turned-journalist a car after Mid-Day report on her journey

Nashik-based journalist Maya Muktai has been gifted a car by Serum Institute of India head Cyrus Poonawala, a day after a Mid-Day report on her journey from being a ragpicker to a video journalist who represented India at a UN climate conference in 2010, the paper reported on Friday.

Newslaundry

First Thing: California to ban sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles

Ban on sales by 2035 welcomed but affordability and charging infrastructure pose challenges. Plus, Texas judge overturns gun ban

The Guardian - UK

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Billions of people may face "unprecedented" and deadly heat within 78 years

Using data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, new research forecasts future scenarios of global temperature rise due to climate change.

Inverse

Putin close aide cheats death after being targeted by 'massive' Ukrainian shelling

The brute was giving awards to fighters in the Somalia Battalion, a separatist military unit of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic [DPR] when he had to flee to a bunker

Daily Mirror

Iran FM Urges UN Chief to End Int’l Probe into Secret Nuclear Sites

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian held telephone talks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday over international inspections of its nuclear sites. The FM reportedly urged Guterres to drop inspections of uranium traces at undeclared nuclear sites. He said meeting the demand was “crucial” to reaching an agreement in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Warns Moscow Not to Divert Power from Ukraine Nuclear Plant

Washington on Thursday warned Russia against diverting energy from a nuclear plant Kyiv says was cut off from its grid, as calls for an independent inspection of the facility mount. Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under occupation by Moscow's troops and was disconnected from the national power supply on Thursday,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Nuclear treaty conference near end with Ukraine in spotlight

As 191 countries approach the end to a four-week conference to review the landmark U.N. treaty aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and takeover of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and rivalries between the West and China were posing key obstacles to agreement on…

The Independent UK

Marine parks in oil, gas exploration area

Conservation groups are stunned by the government's decision to allow oil and gas exploration inside Australian marine parks as it's battling climate change.

AAP

Russia-Ukraine war: EU to hold urgent talks over Russian ‘energy war’; Ukraine announces mandatory evacuations – as it happened

Czech PM says ‘emergency measures’ needed as energy situation ‘damaging the whole European Union’

The Guardian - AU

Power restored to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant but situation still risky, Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster as electricity to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut for hours due to Russian shelling in the area, allegations that Moscow denied. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris…

France 24

COVID-19 deaths reach 1 million worldwide so far in 2022

Urging governments to do more to fight the virus, the World Health Organization chief says: "We cannot say we are learning to live with COVID-19 when 1 million people have died with COVID-19 this year alone."

ABC News

Kim Jong-un plot to build eight mansions 'so assassins won't know where to strike'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is building eight new luxury mansions in his "Forbidden City" so that assassins won't know where he is sleeping, according to a study

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 184 of the invasion

Shelling causes Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to be temporarily disconnected from the grid; Putin orders military to recruit another 137,000 combat personnel

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AAP

Treaty promises seismic shift on high seas

An Australian government delegation is in New York thrashing out a game-changing global treaty to give the majority of the planet's ocean basic protections.

Reuters

Biden to travel to New York Sept. 18-20 for U.N. General Assembly, White House says

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to New York Sept. 18-20 to participate in a session of the United Nations General Assembly, the White House said on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Five years into Rohingya crisis, what's the plan?

Myanmar's violent ethnic cleansing programme, which forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, marked its fifth anniversary yesterday.

Reuters

Fighting flares for second day in northern Ethiopia

Fighting flared for a second day in northern Ethiopia, residents said on Thursday, an outbreak of violence that has shattered hopes for fledgling peace talks between the government and forces from the Tigray region.

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The Hindu

A perilous stalemate: On Russia-Ukraine conflict after six months

Communication lines between Moscow and Kyiv open should be kept open

Reuters

Death toll from floods in Afghanistan rises above 180 - Taliban

Flooding in Afghanistan this month killed more than 180 people, the Taliban said on Thursday, appealing to the international community for help.

The Hindu

India’s vote to allow Zelensky speech was not against Russia, says MEA

In a first, India had voted against Russian motion to stop Ukraine president from addressing UNSC virtually

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Exiles Sue President Raisi in US Ahead of UN Meet

An exile group announced a New York lawsuit against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Thursday, challenging US authorities to take action against him as he is expected to arrive next month for the UN General Assembly. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the suit accused Raisi of torture and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian-Held Nuclear Plant Temporarily Disconnects from Ukraine Grid for First Time

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the middle of the fighting in Ukraine was temporarily cut off from the electrical grid Thursday because of fire damage, causing a blackout in the region and heightening fears of a catastrophe in a country haunted by the Chernobyl disaster. The plant, Europe's largest,…

Benzinga

Bill Gates Likely Saw Food Shortages Coming Years Ago — Why His Land Accumulation Feels Calculated

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had an incredibly impressive career.

The Conversation

Chad is making a huge effort to find peace: Chadians aren't convinced it will work

The normally quiet airport at the Chadian capital N’Djamena was recently inundated with internationally well-known arrivals.

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