President Emmanuel Macron needs to unify a country divided by the forces of globalization in a national addresses on Monday and end anti-government protests that will cut economic growth by about 0.1 percentage points, France’s finance minister said. Protesters rioted in Paris and cities across France on Saturday in a ... Read More »
UN summit urged to end all coal burning and introduce substantial taxes on emissions Global investors managing $32tn issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning. Without these, the world faces ... Read More »
‘What will our response be? Simple. We’re going to do the same,’ said Vladimir Putin Russian president Vladimir Putin has suggested Russia would develop intermediate-range nuclear arms in response to the US exiting a key Soviet-era arms control agreement. “It seems our American partners think … they should have such ... Read More »
‘Yellow vest’ demonstrators planning fresh marches this weekend Emmanuel Macron has scrapped a fuel tax rise following weeks of nationwide protests in France and the worst rioting in Paris in decades. Protesters celebrated the victory on Wednesday, but critics said Mr Macron’s surrender came too late and is unlikely to ... Read More »
KFAR KILA/BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army said it stood ready to respond to developments along the southern border Tuesday, hours after Israel announced that it started blocking tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah. “In light of the Israeli enemy’s Northern Shield Operation, which is related to the alleged tunnels on the southern ... Read More »
Singapore has made a “strong protest” to Malaysia over its plan to extend the limits of a port in its southernmost state, saying it encroached the territorial waters of the wealthy city-state. The assertion, which Malaysia called inaccurate, is the latest development in the neighbors’ spats over parts of the ... Read More »
‘The extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon,’ naturalist warns during COP 24 Civilisations are going to collapse and much of nature will be wiped out to extinction if humanity doesn’t take urgent action on climate change, Sir David Attenborough has warned. The naturalist gave a ... Read More »
A human rights law group contracted by the U.S. State Department to investigate atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar called on Monday for the urgent establishment of a criminal tribunal to bring those responsible to justice. There were reasonable grounds to believe the Myanmar military committed crimes against humanity, genocide ... Read More »
Country to leave cartel in January 2019, but will take part in this week’s meeting Qatar is to pull out of Opec after nearly 60 years of membership of the oil cartel, but will attend a meeting this week that will discuss cutting output. Saad al-Kaabi, the country’s energy minister, ... Read More »
US officials say president will wait 90 days before imposing 25% tariffs to allow negotiations Donald Trump has delayed for 90 days his threatened imposition of 25% tariffs on most Chinese imports after a dinner meeting with Xi Jinping, to give time for negotiations on longstanding trade disputes between the ... Read More »
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