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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties. CBS Saturday Mornings was told by Israeli officials that part of the reason the fighting resumed was a terrorist attack that killed four in Jerusalem on Thursday. Officials said that Israel is willing to give ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum to decide whether the country should create its own state within a large swath of its oil-rich neighbor Guyana – a move that has been denounced by Guyana as a step towards annexation and raised concerns of a possible military conflict between the two South American nations. The area in question, the densely forested Essequibo region, amounts to about two-thirds of ...
Source: cnn.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
The Biden administration on Saturday announced finalized standards to limit the amount of methane that oil and gas companies can leak into the atmosphere, saying the move will "turbocharge" climate action in the U.S. The announcement, made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, also known as COP28, will require emitters to eliminate routine flaring of natural gas in new wells over a two-year ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
The launch of a 'loss and damage' fund on Thursday at the start of the United Nations COP28 summit marks a landmark moment but is only the first in a series of necessary steps in the fight for climate justice, say experts and activists. For years, climate-vulnerable countries have asked wealthier nations – who have largely amassed their riches through unbridled CO2 emissions – to take their fair share ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
More than 20 nations including the United States called for a tripling of nuclear energy to drive down emissions on Saturday as world leaders assembled for a second day at UN climate talks in Dubai. With smoggy skies in Dubai highlighting the challenges facing the world, other pledges are expected at the COP28 conference, including stepping up the deployment of renewable energy and cutting methane emissions. The ...
Source: phys.org
Saturday, Dec 2nd, 2023 -
– When it came to the Middle East, Henry Kissinger wasn't pushing for peace — only for what was possible. By the time , the agreements he negotiated as United States secretary of state between Israel, Egypt and Syria stabilized borders for nearly half a century after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. His work and the pacts it produced sidelined the Soviet Union and set the U.S. as the region's chief ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
World leaders have for the first time promised to tackle the huge responsibility that food and agriculture have in climate change. More than 130 countries signed up to a declaration about food, on the second day of the UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Food contributes a third of the warming gases increasing global temperatures. Leaders including King Charles told COP28 that time was running ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
The cause of Wednesday's crash, which occurred during a training mission, is still under investigation. TOKYO — Japan's top government spokesperson expressed concern Friday that the U.S. military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft in the country without providing adequate information about Wednesday's fatal crash. One crew member was killed and seven others are missing following the crash off southern ...
Source: pressherald.com
Friday, Dec 1st, 2023 -
We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in Gaza when Israel quickly ran out of military targets, causing it to loosen its constraints on attacks that could kill civilians. In other words, ...
Source: democracynow.org