Winds calmed Friday around Los Angeles, providing a fleeting window of opportunity in a firefighting battle against five major blazes wreaking havoc across the city.At least 10 people have died as flames ripped through neighborhoods, razing thousands of homes in one of the worst disasters ever to hit California, with one estimate suggesting the bill …
The last two years saw average global temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe’s climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded “trail-blazing” climate action.While this does not mean the internationally-agreed 1.5C warming threshold has been permanently breached, the United Nations warned it was in “grave danger”.”Today’s assessment from the World …
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Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country’s first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988. Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral infection that is not dangerous to humans but which affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, including sheep and pigs.Symptoms include fever …
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A judge sentenced Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US president-elect’s last-ditch efforts to avoid becoming the first felon in the White House.New York judge Juan Merchan handed down no jail time or fine, but the discharge upholds the jury’s guilty verdict …
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a third six-year term rejected by the opposition as a “coup d’etat” achieved through election fraud and a campaign of repression.The opposition accuses Maduro, 62, of stealing the election of July 28 last year, and the United States, European Union and several Latin American countries have …
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The last two years saw average temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe’s climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded “trail-blazing” climate action.While this does not mean the internationally-agreed 1.5C warming threshold has been permanently breached, the United Nations warned it was in “grave danger”.”Blazing temperatures in 2024 require trail-blazing …
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a third six-year term rejected by the opposition as a “coup d’etat” achieved through election fraud and a campaign of repression.Maduro took the oath before parliament, vowing his next term would be a “period of peace,” a day after thousands took to the streets to protest …
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Last year set a record for high temperatures across the mainland United States, with the nation also pummeled by a barrage of tornadoes and destructive hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a report Friday.The announcement came as Europe’s climate monitor confirmed 2024 was the hottest year globally, with temperatures so extreme that …
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A judge sentenced Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US president-elect’s last-ditch efforts to avoid becoming the first felon in the White House.The judge spared Trump prison or a fine even though the 34 counts of falsifying business records on which he …
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a third six-year term, shunned internationally over claims of election fraud and repression but bolstered by a loyal military.Maduro took the oath before parliament, vowing his next term would be a “period of peace,” a day after thousands took to the streets to protest his alleged …
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