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- GLORIA DICKIE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Reuters
A United Nations-led effort to use space satellites to detect methane leaks from fossil fuel infrastructure has alerted governments to 127 major methane plumes across four continents since its launch at the start of this year.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas,
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Gaza
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Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and forcing hundreds to flee in the streets.
Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment as
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- NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, MOHAMMED SALEM and HUMEYRA PAMUK
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- AZIZ TAHER and HUSSEIN ALWAAILE
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- RON POPESKI and OLEKSANDR KOZHUKHAR
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for faster construction of fortifications in key sectors under pressure from Russian forces, particularly in eastern Ukraine, the focal point of Moscow's advances 21 months into its invasion.
Zelenskiy issued his appeal after touring Ukrainian positions in the north-east, one of
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- DIANA MANDIÁ
Gdansk, Poland
Reuters
Women are the main targets of online hate, including abusive language, harassment and incitement to sexual violence, a European Union report said this week.
This should encourage the EU and social media platforms to pay close attention to protected characteristics such as gender and ethnicity when moderating
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Sydney, Australia
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Australia faces an increased risk of bushfires during the approaching summer, authorities warned on Thursday, with the El Nino weather pattern expected to generate hotter and drier conditions across large swathes of the country.
Three years of incessant rain has increased vegetation, but the
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- MAYA GEBEILY, STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG and ANTHONY DEUTSCH
The Hague, The Netherlands/Beirut, Lebanon
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Illegal chemical weapons attacks killed and injured thousands during Syria's civil war, many of them children, but more than a decade later, the perpetrators go unpunished.
That could change under an initiative to create a new tribunal for such atrocities launched
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Jerusalem/Tel Aviv
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel's military operations in southern Gaza must not repeat the massive loss of civilian life and displacement seen during its offensive in the north.
At a news conference in
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Nairobi, Kenya
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The All Africa Conference of Churches has elected its first woman as president of the ecumenical organisation, which represents some 200 million Christians on the continent.
On 22nd November, Rev Lydia Chituku Neshangwe, a Presbyterian minister, became the first woman to lead the
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- PRATIK JAIN and JENNIFER RIGBY
The world is in danger of losing the fight against malaria, as cases of the disease rose by around five million year-on-year in 2022, exceeding global targets to contain it, a new World Health Organization report showed on Thursday.
Pandemic-related disruptions and extreme weather events linked
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- GLORIA DICKIE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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With a month to run, 2023 will reach global warming of about 1.4 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, adding to "a deafening cacophony" of broken climate records, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday.
The WMO's provisional State of the Global Climate
