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Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing - UN

Extreme heat is already killing people around the world while increasing disease, displacement and loss of livelihood and culture, scientists say

Evening Standard

'It can be done. It must be done': IPCC delivers definitive report on climate change, and where to now

The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely, that’s the essence of today’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The Conversation

IPCC climate scientists issue 'a survival guide for humanity', warning window closing to reduce emissions

The world’s climate scientists have issued what one expert says is a “final warning” before global warming exceeds 1.5C, threatening planetary systems human life depends on.

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'This can be done': UN's message on net-zero deadlines

The UN secretary-general says developed nations like Australia must bring forward their net-zero timelines by a decade, given the latest climate change report.

AAP

IPCC scientists still hopeful of capping global warming at 1.5°C

Despite the scale and urgency of the climate crisis, it's not too late to secure a “liveable and sustainable future for all” if immediate action is taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions and ensure climate justice for vulnerable people, a major UN climate report published Monday says.

Radio France Internationale

How Iraq war destroyed UK’s trust in politicians and left Labour in turmoil

Tony Blair’s decision to invade tore at successive Labour leaders and weakened the intelligence services

The Guardian - UK

From climate change ‘certainty’ to rapid decline: a timeline of IPCC reports

Since 1992, the IPCC has highlighted rising greenhouse gases, marking their ‘widespread and unprecedented’ impacts by 2014

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UN report: Window for limiting global warming is closing

The report warns that the window for meaningful action is closing, but details climate solutions.

Axios

OPINION - There is nothing more depressing than Happiness Day

Happy Monday! Don’t you just hate it when people say that? Ditto Tuesday, Wednesday and every other day. But it’s remarkable how this frightful habit has caught on, chiefly on the part of PRs. It calls to mind the Brit in America who, on being told to have a nice…

Evening Standard

Iran Violations May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity, Says UN Expert

Iran's authorities have committed violations in recent months that may amount to crimes against humanity, a UN-appointed expert told the Human Rights Council on Monday, citing cases of murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence and persecution. Iran has been swept by protests since the death of a young…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. At least 18,000 people are…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A week on, brutal Cyclone Freddy still taxes southern Africa

Over a week on from Cyclone Freddy’s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since it battered Madagascar, the effects are still being felt as locals, officials and aid workers continue to uncover the full extent of the cyclone’s destruction

The Independent UK

Nine Chinese nationals killed in mining site attack in Central African Republic

Nine Chinese mine workers were killed in an attack in the Central African Republic, sparking a rare call on Monday from China's President Xi Jinping for the perpetrators to be "severely" punished.

Radio France Internationale

Water has long been used as a tactical weapon in warfare – the world now has a chance to end this

Experts and leaders will soon come together in their thousands at the first UN conference dedicated to water in nearly half a century.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Donors Pledge $7.5 Billion for Türkiye, Syria after Quake

The European Union and international donors on Monday pledged seven billion euros ($7.5 billion) to help Türkiye and Syria in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated parts of the neighboring countries last month. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU’s executive arm, said 3.3 billion euros ($3.5…

The Guardian - UK

‘Our staff members are social activists’: the university with a critical approach to economics

Economist and best-selling author Ha-Joon Chang says that students at Soas University of London are encouraged to look at the failures of capitalism

France 24

UN to release capstone report on climate change amid rising carbon emissions

A major new United Nations report being released Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold.

The Independent UK

Woman sets record for visiting the highest number of countries in a wheelchair in one year

Renee Bruns described her experience as ‘scary and liberating’

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The Independent UK

Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year REDIRECTED

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children

Reuters

Yemen's conflict parties reach deal to release 887 detainees

The two sides in Yemen's conflict agreed to free 887 detainees and to meet again in May after 10 days of negotiations in Switzerland, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday.

The Independent UK

So where were they, Mr Blair? How The Independent exposed the lie of Saddam’s WMD and the justification for an illegal war

The Independent titles vigorously opposed the Iraq war long before others saw the error of their support: Then-editor Tristan Davies reveals how, one month into the conflict, The Independent on Sunday became the first to highlight the failure to find weapons of mass destruction

Asharq Al-Awsat

Abu Al-Ragheb: King Abdullah Warned Bush against Opening Gates of Hell in Iraq

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Al-Ragheb revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat, and for the first time, the behind-the-scenes dealings related to the build up of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Jordan had repeatedly warned decision-makers in the West that chaos would reign in Iraq should the invasion…

The Guardian - UK

Compare Iraq with Ukraine. It’s clear the era of US global supremacy is over

Washington’s power is suddenly threatened by a newly confident China and disquiet among leaders in the global south, says former Guardian chief foreign correspondent Jonathan Steele

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's displaced close to Thai border dig to safety from junta air strikes

At a makeshift camp for Myanmar's displaced people, two young men hack away at the red earth with a hoe and machete to build a bunker before the next junta shelling or air raid.

Axios

Read: The world's 20 happiest countries for 2023 revealed

Happiness has risen slightly since the pandemic began amid acts of kindness, global report finds.

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