The one chance we have
The pandemic gave the world a golden opportunity to fix the climate crisis. We’re about to waste it.
C ovid-19 has devastated the global economy and forced governments around the world to pour trillions into the recovery effort.
The pandemic could have been the decisive moment in the fight against climate change -- an opportunity for leaders to bail out the environment and pivot the planet toward a greener future.
Instead, CNN has found that some of the biggest fossil fuel-producing countries are injecting taxpayer money into propping up polluting industries. And exclusive new data shows these decisions are taking the world a step closer to a climate catastrophe.
Report charts China's expansion of mass labour programme in Tibet
Researcher says 500,000 rural workers trained for factories this year in programme likened to Xinjiang operations
Chinese authorities are dramatically expanding a mass labour programme in Tibet, which analysts have compared to alleged forced labour operations in Xinjiang, according to evidence compiled by a German anthropologist and corroborated by Reuters.
China has set quotas to move hundreds of thousands of Tibetan rural labourers off their land and into “military-style” facilities to train them as factory workers, according to documents analysed by researcher Adrian Zenz for the Jamestown Foundation, a US research institute.
Isis ‘Beatles’ can stand trial in US after High Court ruling
UK will hand over requested evidence as result of ruling
The mother of a suspected Isis terrorist has lost a High Court challenge against the UK home secretary’s decision to share evidence about her son with US authorities.
Maha Elgizouli’s lawyers had argued the move was unlawful as it was incompatible with the Data Protection Act and asked the court to order that no material should be provided to the US in a hearing in London on 11 September.
The case was rejected on Tuesday.
Ms Elgizouli’s son, El Shafee Elsheikh, and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to a group of militants dubbed “The Beatles” because of their British accents who executed a number of Western captives.
FinCEN Files: Dubious oil deals with Syria turn fatal
There is an embargo on oil business with Syria, but it still takes place. The FinCEN Files, international research on money laundering, corroborates this. And Turkey's largest oil company appears to play an uncanny role.
In the Kerch Strait off the Crimean coast, a dangerous undertaking cost 20 people their lives. On January 21, 2019, crews on two tankers were transferring liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from one ship to another at sea. Something went wrong and there was a terrible explosion. Both ships quickly burst into flames.
A search and rescue team tried to locate the burning tankers to rescue the crews. But they lost valuable time. Both ships had loaded illicit cargo and switched off their tracking systems to avoid detection by authorities.
France Charlie Hebdo Trial: 14 suspected accomplices go on trial in Paris
Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement
Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has given the party the 51 votes needed to move forward with voting on Mr Trump's candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday.
The move ensures a bitter political battle.
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