New Zealand volcano: Search resumes for two remaining bodies
New Zealand police say divers have resumed searching the waters near White Island volcano in efforts to retrieve two remaining bodies.
At least one body was spotted in the water and rescuers would not return to the island on Saturday.
A day earlier, the remains of six bodies were recovered in a high-risk operation and sent to Auckland where they will be identified.
Fourteen deaths have been confirmed from Monday's eruption.
Around 20 people remain in intensive care with severe burns in New Zealand and Australia.
Unesco removes 'racist' Belgian carnival from heritage list
Carnival of Aalst included parade float caricaturing Orthodox Jews
Unesco has removed an annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst from its heritage list over persistent charges of antisemitism.
In an unprecedented move, Unesco’s intergovernmental committee for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage said it was withdrawing the carnival “over recurring repetition of racist and antisemitic representations” at the event.
The carnival of Aalst, in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders, was initially added to Unesco’s list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2010. But the presence of a parade float caricaturing Orthodox Jews with hooked noses and sitting on gold bags outraged Belgium’s 40,000-strong Jewish community.
Women to be guaranteed access to abortion in Argentina rape cases
'The protocol will be used as a guide, especially in cases where the law clearly allows for the interruption of pregnancies,' says health minister
Maya OppenheimWomen's Correspondent
Women in Argentina who want to terminate a pregnancy which is the result of rape will be guaranteed the right to do so under new measures.
Abortion is permitted in Argentina if the pregnancy is due to rape or in instances when the mother’s health or life is in danger, but campaigners say the law is not consistently implemented.
New measures which come into force on Friday will curb the power hospitals hold in choosing whether to provide women with abortions.
UN talks deadlocked, detached from climate emergency
United Nations climate negotiations were deadlocked deep into overtime Friday with even the best-case outcome likely to fall well short of what science says is needed to avert a future ravaged by global warming.
The COP25 summit in Madrid arrives on the heels of climate-related disasters across the planet, including unprecedented cyclones, deadly droughts and record-setting heatwaves.
Scientists have amassed a mountain of evidence pointing to even more dire impacts on the near horizon, while millions of youth activists are holding weekly strikes demanding government action.
Supreme Court to hear Trump pleas to block subpoenas for financial records
Updated 2214 GMT (0614 HKT) December 13, 2019
The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether the House and a New York prosecutor can subpoena President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm and banks for his financial records, two monumental disputes concerning separation of powers and Trump's broad claims of immunity that will be decided in the heart of the presidential campaign.
In a brief order, the justices granted requests from Trump's personal lawyers to hear the cases, ensuring that the subpoenas won't be enforced while impeachment proceedings play out.
The cases will be heard in March, with rulings expected by June.
HOW THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY IS ATTEMPTING TO BUY THE GLOBAL YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT
THE SAME DAY that 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg gave a stirring speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September, in which she criticized delegates for “stealing my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” the architects of the climate crisis welcomed select youth participants from the summit to dine.
CEOs from fossil fuel corporations including BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Norway’s Equinor were attending the annual gathering of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative in New York, which includes industry leaders who claim to be committed to taking “practical” action on climate change. On the agenda for lunch was to “explore options for long-term engagement” with young people the industry could trust. Student Energy, a nonprofit based in Alberta, near Canada’s tar sands region, helped organize the event, which included time for students to grill the CEOs about their inaction on climate change.
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