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U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables
[ad_1] The United States and China, the world’s two largest climate polluters, have agreed to jointly tackle global warming by ramping up wind, solar and other renewable energy with the goal of displacing fossil fuels, the State Department said Tuesday. The announcement comes as President Biden prepares to meet Wednesday with President Xi Jinping of China for their first face-to-face…
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Israel Says Military Has Entered Gazan Hospital Grounds to Defeat Hamas
[ad_1] The Israeli military said early Wednesday that its troops were carrying out “a precise and targeted operation” at Gaza’s largest hospital, a complex of buildings where thousands of Palestinian refugees had taken shelter, as part of the campaign “to defeat Hamas and rescue our hostages.” The statement came a day after Israel, facing an international outcry over the increasingly…
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Babies at Al-Shifa Hospital Moved to Ward With Electricity
[ad_1] new video loaded: Babies at Al-Shifa Hospital Moved to Ward With Electricity By Gazan Ministry of Health•November 14, 2023 Video released by Gaza’s Health Ministry shows more than a dozen newborn babies being transferred to patient beds at Al-Shifa hospital, after the hospital’s incubators lost power. [ad_2] Source link
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Inside the Desperate Effort to Evacuate Young Cancer Patients From Gaza
[ad_1] They are some of the most vulnerable in Gaza. The youngest is not even a year old; the oldest is 14. All are battling lymphoma, leukemia and tumors that doctors said could kill them if left untreated. Over the past 10 days, 21 children with cancer have been evacuated from Gaza to hospitals in Egypt and Jordan, according to…
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Lancet Countdown Report Shows Climate Change’s Impact on Health
[ad_1] Climate change continues to have a worsening effect on health and mortality around the world, according to an exhaustive report published on Tuesday by an international team of 114 researchers. One of the starkest findings is that heat-related deaths of people older than 65 have increased by 85 percent since the 1990s, according to modeling that incorporates both changing…
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U.S. Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospitals, Endorsing Israel’s Allegations
[ad_1] The United States has intelligence that shows that Hamas has been using hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, as command centers and ammunitions depots, a spokesman for the National Security Council said on Tuesday. John Kirby, the spokesman, said that the intelligence, gathered from American-generated sources, supported Israel’s allegation that Hamas has been operating out of hospitals, which Mr. Kirby…
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Wednesday Briefing: Updates on Gaza’s Main Hospital
[ad_1] Babies remain in Al-Shifa Hospital as Israel closes in Al-Shifa, Gaza’s main hospital complex, has been cut off from electricity for days. Hospital officials warn that the lives of roughly three dozen premature babies are under threat now that the incubators needed to keep them alive are without power. As the fighting drew closer to Al-Shifa last week, many…
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Murdered Kremlin Critic Anna Politkovskaya Was Veteran Journalist
[ad_1] Anna Politkovskaya was one of Russia’s most acclaimed journalists and a vocal critic of the Kremlin. Her murder in 2006 sent shock waves not just through Russia but around the world, highlighting the growing dangers of reporting critically about the Kremlin in the country. Outrage and intrigue around the case have persisted in the years since, and then spiked…
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Families of Hostages Start a March From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
[ad_1] For 10 days, Noam Alon, 24, has camped in front of the central military headquarters in Tel Aviv, aiming to pressure the Israeli government to do more to bring back his girlfriend of a year and a half, Inbar Heiman, and the more than 200 other hostages currently held in Gaza. But with no news on when and whether…
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Why Rishi Sunak Is on His 3rd Political Makeover
[ad_1] At his party’s conference last month, Mr. Sunak made “an attempt to hold on to the ‘red wall,’ and what we’re seeing now is a kind of U-turn and focus on the ‘blue wall,’” Professor Ford said. “And the problem is that they can’t have both.” Mr. Sunak’s attempt to put on a populist mantle failed for another reason.…
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