A German court on Tuesday rejected a case brought by climate group Greenpeace against Volkswagen to get the car giant to stop selling petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030. The plaintiffs, the two heads of Greenpeace Germany and climate activist Clara Meyer, had also sought to force the world’s second-largest carmaker to reduce emissions by 65 percent by 2030 as compared to 2018. Greenpeace’s case is based on a landmark verdict by Germany’s constitutional court in April, 2021, which found government plans to curb CO2 emissions insufficient to meet Paris climate agreement targets. As a consequence of that ruling, former…
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos summoned Beijing’s ambassador Tuesday to express “serious concern” after a Chinese security vessel was accused of using a military-grade laser light against a Philippine patrol boat in the disputed South China Sea. The confrontation marks an escalation in the diplomatic row, after the Philippine foreign ministry earlier filed a protest to the Chinese embassy condemning the “aggressive” actions of the Chinese coastguard vessel that it said left Filipino crew members temporarily blinded. Marcos confronted Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian on Tuesday “over the increasing frequency and intensity of actions by China against Philippine Coast Guard and our…
Three people were killed and nine wounded in a bomb blast at a railway station in southern Myanmar on Monday, the junta and local media said. The blast hit a station at Nyaunglaybin township in Bago region around 150 kilometres north of commercial hub Yangon at around 12:20 pm local time (0550 GMT), the junta’s information team said in a statement. It released pictures showing debris and roof tiles littering a platform. Local media, citing residents, also reported three people had died and at least nine had been wounded. The junta statement blamed anti-coup “People’s Defence Forces” (PDFs) for the…
The White House on Monday denied Beijing’s accusation that the United States has been sending balloons over China to conduct surveillance, as tensions about espionage rise between the two superpowers. “Any claim that the US government operates surveillance balloons over the PRC is false,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Twitter. “It is China that has a high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence collection, that it has used to violate the sovereignty of the US and over 40 countries across 5 continents.” The State Department responded with a similar rejection, and called Beijing’s accusation “the latest example of…
While his wife and two daughters lay under the rubble after Syria’s earthquake, Abdelbaset Khalil tended to hundreds of patients who flooded into his hospital. Khalil, a nurse anaesthetist, was already at work when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria last week, flattening entire neighbourhoods and leaving a combined death toll of more than 35,000, including at least 3,581 in Syria. As the quake shook the ground beneath him, he rushed out of the hospital to find his apartment building had collapsed with his family inside. Speechless and overwhelmed, the 50-year-old walked back to the hospital ward to an…
Thousands of Israelis protested outside parliament Monday against the government’s controversial judicial reform plan, which aims to give lawmakers substantially more control over the supreme court. The measures, which were inching towards approval through a series of preliminary votes inside the chamber, have provoked widespread criticism and charges that they would give the legislative branch nearly unchecked authority. Outside Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, thousands rallied, waving Israeli flags and placards that read “Save Israel democracy” and “The whole world is watching”. President Isaac Herzog, in a rare national address late Sunday focused on the reform plan, warned that Israel was…
At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine The post On the road with Ukraine's 'medical battalion' appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
One of Indonesia’s most senior police officers was sentenced to death on Monday over the murder of his bodyguard. Ferdy Sambo, a two-star general and former head of internal affairs for the national police, was named as a suspect after his bodyguard was found dead at Sambo’s home in July, in a killing police were initially alleged to have covered up. Sambo was accused of ordering a subordinate to shoot 27-year-old Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, and then firing a bullet into the wounded victim himself. He was arrested in August and discharged from the force in September, before a months-long…
Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person was killed in a predawn Israeli army raid in Nablus in the northern West Bank, the scene of near-relentless violence over the past year. The army did not immediately comment on the Nablus raid. But in Gaza, it said it had struck “an underground complex containing raw materials used for the manufacturing of rockets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation”. The…
Turkish authorities have issued more than 100 arrest warrants over collapsed buildings, amid warnings that the death toll from the earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria could double from the current tally of 28,000. The post Turkey arrests building contractors as earthquake death toll mounts appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.