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After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.“Negotiations, as are often the case, are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual states in some areas,” German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said, “but there is a will to make progress.”Proponents who are calling for a ground-shifting phase-out of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal have hope for the first time in years, but also see where it could be torpedoed. Key issues of financial help for poor nations to decarbonize and how to adapt to warming need much more work, officials said. That is in contrast to the first day when the conference — called COP28 — put into effect a climate compensation fund — called loss-and-damage — and started seeing its coffers grow to more than ...

Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city, further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and halting the distribution of vital aid across most of the territory.The assault on the south threatens f...

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y más

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

Para ver las entradas más recientes haz clic aquíTanques militares israelíes avanzan cerca de la frontera con Gaza el 5 de diciembre, en medio de continuas batallas entre Israel y el grupo militante Hamas. Crédito: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Serie de tiroteos en Texas dejan seis muertos; acusan al sospechoso de asesinato capital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

Un hombre fue arrestado y acusado de asesinato capital luego de presuntamente perpetrar una serie de tiroteos el martes en San Antonio y en Austin, Texas, que dejaron al menos seis muertos.En los incidentes aislados, que se registraron en cinco zonas distintas, también resultaron heridos de bala dos oficiales de la policía y un ciclista. Robin Henderson, jefa interina del Departamento de Policía de Austin, confirmó que el sospechoso fue acusado de homicidio capital y fue detenido tras un intercambio de disparos con un oficial y de una persecución sobre las 7 p.m. La policía logró detenerlo después de que chocó su auto. La identidad del sospechoso y de las víctimas no han sido divulgadas. Tampoco está claro el motivo de los tiroteos. Masacre en Maine: tiroteos dejan al menos 18 muertos y hasta 13 heridos Serie de tiroteos nocturnos en Tennessee deja un muerto y 10 heridos, según la policía CRONOLOGÍA DE LOS TIROTEOSLa policía de ...

Stock market today: World shares advance as weak US jobs data back hopes for an end to rate hikes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — World shares advanced on Wednesday after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 16,542.15 and the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.2% to 7,397.84. In London, the FTSE 100 was up 0.4% at 7,521.99. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.1%. In Asian trading, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.8% to 16,573.00, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.1% lower, to 2,968.93. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 2% to 33,445.90 after a top central bank official reiterated the Bank of Japan’s determination to maintain its easy credit policy until it achieves a stable level of inflation. In Seoul, the Kospi was up less than 0.1%, at 2,495.38. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 1.7% to 7,178.40. India’s Sensex gained 0.5% and the SET in Bangkok advanced 0.3%. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged 0.1% lower for its first back-to...

A survivor is pulled out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after being trapped. Dozens remain missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday.The 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, according to a statement by Zambia’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. He told rescuers he had been struggling for five days to find a way out of one of the collapsed tunnels at the open-pit copper mine near the city of Chingola, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital, Lusaka, the statement said.A body was also recovered a few hours after the miner’s rescue but was yet to be identified, it added.The man was taken to the hospital, rescuers said. They gave no details on his medical condition but said he was able to talk to officials from his hospital bed.The body was the first to be retrieved following the disaster last week. More than 30 miners may still be trapped under the rubble and debris in three separate tun...

Chinese comedians living abroad are winning fans. But some topics are off limits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist.Even his name is politically sensitive, the Melbourne-based amateur comedian tells audiences, setting up a joke about a group chat on the Chinese messaging service WeChat being shut down as soon as he joined it. The 33-year-old civil engineer gets nervous laughs whenever he breaks a de facto rule of Chinese comedy: Don’t say anything that makes China look bad. To most comedians, that means no jokes about censorship, no mentioning the president’s name, and no discussion of China’s extraordinarily strict COVID lockdowns or social topics like domestic violence.“It is a pity, if the environment were open, there would be somebody world-class coming up,” Xi said.Mandarin-language standup comedy is growing, and not just in China. The medium has taken off in the last decade, and China’s expatriate population has...

Nepal arrests 10 on suspicion of recruiting locals for Russian army

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

Police in Nepal have arrested 10 people for allegedly scamming unemployed young men into joining the Russian army.The suspects charged people up to $9,000 for “tourist visas” and sent them to Russia through third countries, mainly the United Arab Emirates, Kathmandu District Police chief Bhupendra Khatri told Reuters. They were then recruited to the Russian army, the official said, adding that it amounted to human trafficking.Nepalese authorities had earlier asked Russia not to recruit its citizens to fight in Ukraine, as at least six Nepalis have already been killed, Kathmandu Post reported this week.On Monday, Ukrainian military reporter Andriy Tsaplienko published a video of five Russian prisoners of war captured by the Ukrainian army, taken in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. In the video, all of them identify themselves and say they are all serving in the Russian 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment. While three are from Dagestan and other parts of Russia, one prisoner says he is fro...

China rejects EU’s trade deficit complaint

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

BRUSSELS — Beijing has rebuffed a complaint by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over the EU’s trade deficit against China, a day before her summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.The EU bears responsibility for the trade imbalance as it’s stopped businesses from exporting to China, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday, responding to von der Leyen’s call on China to open up access to its market.“If the EU on the one hand imposes harsh restrictions on high-tech exports, and on the other hopes to sharply increase exports to China, that I’m afraid doesn’t make sense,” Wang told a regular press conference.Wang’s comment appeared to refer to restrictions on exports of the most advanced lithography tools, made by Dutch market leader ASML, that are used to print the most powerful computer chips.He added that part of the profits generated from Chinese trade surpluses are earned by European comp...

Snowy Scene For Some

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:57 GMT

Before you get the snow, you need the cold, and temps this morning are cold enough to support snow across many locations. Moisture is limited away from the coast, so patchy light snow showers/flurries are present there, but other than spotty light dustings of snow, not much is falling. Close to the coast, close to an inch of snow fell overnight across Cape Ann and heavier and steadier bursts of snow have dropped even more across parts of Plymouth County. That is where the focus of the falling snow will be for the morning commute, as we’ll see snow covered untreated roads and reduced visibility at times. Snow continues across Plymouth County and parts of the Cape through mid to late morning, before drying out this afternoon. Many locations east of Route 24 to Route 3 will pick up 1-2″ of snow with isolated pockets of 3″ in a few towns. Even the western Cape picks up a coating to a couple inches. It’ll be dry and cold this afternoon with highs in the 30s. We...