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Climate change 2021: There's no turning back now

Phys Dot Org 2021-11-30

photo: European Community / Dati Bendo

Across a quarter century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between. This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once. Swedish activist...

Maxwell, Epstein were ‘partners in crime,’ prosecutor says

Republican American 2021-11-30

photo: AP / Seth Wenig

NEW YORK (AP) – Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were “partners in crime” in the sexual abuse of teenage girls, a prosecutor said Monday, while Maxwell’s lawyers said she was being made a scapegoat for a man’s bad behavior as the British socialite’s sex...

Ethiopia central bank lifts suspension of collateralised loans

FX Empire 2021-11-29

photo: Creative Commons / Rod Waddington

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s central bank has lifted a suspension of lending by commercial banks to their customers using collateral such as property, the bank said on Monday. The economy has been shaken by a conflict that has lasted more than a year pitting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s...

S.African expert says vaccines likely effective vs severe COVID-19 from variant

Metro USA 2021-11-29

photo: Creative Commons / gramola2three

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Existing COVID-19 vaccines are probably effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalisation from the newly identified Omicron variant, a top South African infectious disease expert said on Monday. Professor...

Gold price prediction: bearish formation to define direction in the short term

Invezz 2021-11-29

photo: WN / deniseyong

Gold price movements at the beginning of the week are rather subtle. Notably, it ended the past week on a low amid the strengthening US dollar. In the new week, the focus will be on the Fed policymakers’ speeches and overall performance of the greenback. Strengthening dollar The dollar index,...

West asks whether Iran is serious or stalling as talks set to resume

Reuters 2021-11-29

photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian

VIENNA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Iran and world powers will meet in Vienna on Monday to try to salvage their 2015 nuclear deal, but with Tehran sticking to its tough stance and Western powers increasingly frustrated, hopes of a breakthrough appear slim. Diplomats say time is running low to resurrect the...

Orban Builds Popularity, Influence in Slovakia Using Hungarian Taxpayer Money

Balkan Insight 2021-11-29

photo: Creative Commons / EU2017EE/Annika Haas

Viktor Orban is using Hungarian taxpayer money to renovate Slovak churches, chateaux and kindergartens – and is strengthening his position while doing so. “Francis II Rakoczi is like a god to Hungarians,” exclaims the tour guide on the cultural importance of a recently renovated chateau in the...

Sweden gets second chance to appoint Andersson as PM

Urdu Point 2021-11-29

photo: AP / Virginia Mayo

Stockholm, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Nov, 2021 ) :Swedish Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson gets a second chance at becoming the country's prime minister on Monday, after her initial attempt last week lasted just seven hours. Parliament is expected to appoint Andersson...

In Xi Jinping’s China the past is the future

Taipei Times 2021-11-28

photo: AP / Alex Brandon

The CCP has written a narrative in which there is one millennia-old, unchanging Chinese ‘people’ who the communists have liberated from the oppression of the ‘West’ By Volker Stanzel / The Rickshaw Reporter History lives from telling stories. An ancient culture such as China’s has many to offer....

‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million

New York Post 2021-11-28

photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis

The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. In her new book,...

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