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The world’s current climate pledges would only cut emissions by 2.6 percent by 2030, says the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall significantly short of those needed to limit catastrophic global warming, says the United Nations before climate change negotiations next month. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs)
Japan’s ruling party likely to lose parliamentary majority in snap election
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 975
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Bangladesh’s new outcasts: Students from ex-PM Hasina’s party now in hiding
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Since early August, Fahmi*, 24, who used to be a dominant figure on the sprawling campus of Dhaka University in Bangladesh’s capital, has been in hiding. Fahmi was a member of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) party that ruled over
US election: 10 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to
With 10 days left to go until Election Day, the race to the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains very tight across the nation’s battleground states. Candidates Harris, Trump and their surrogates hit the campaign trail in full force. Singer Beyonce Knowles, her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly
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