Japan will become carbon neutral by 2050, PM pledges
Yoshihide Suga says dealing with climate change is no longer a constraint on growth as he sets out a bolder approach to the emergency
Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has said the country will become carbon neutral by 2050, heralding a bolder approach to tackling the climate emergency by the world’s third-biggest economy.
“Responding to climate change is no longer a constraint on economic growth,” Suga said on Monday in his first policy address to parliament since taking office.
“We need to change our thinking to the view that taking assertive measures against climate change will lead to changes in industrial structure and the economy that will bring about growth.”
'I was absolutely terrified': Australian witness recounts Qatar strip-search ordeal
An Australian woman has described the “terrifying” experience of being taken off a Qatar Airways flight by authorities who strip-searched passengers as they tried to identify the mother of an infant found in the Doha airport toilets.
Kim Mills was one of nine women taken off a Qatar Airways flight bound for Sydney on 2 October and led through the bowels of the Hamad International airport to what appeared to be a dark carpark or turning circle, where three ambulances were waiting to perform medical examinations to determine if any of the women had recently given birth.
Turkey’s Erdogan calls for boycott of French goods after Macron’s ‘anti-Islam’ comments
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks to boycott French goods in the latest escalation of a row over the beheading of a teacher in Paris.
The Turkish president has claimed his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, is perpetrating an “anti-Islam” agenda by criticising the faith’s radical adherents in the wake of the killing.
Samuel Paty was beheaded in an Islamist terror attack earlier this month, after showing depictions of the prophet Muhammad to students in a lesson about freedom of expression.
They Did Not Vote in 2016. Why They Plan on Skipping the Election Again.
Like nearly half of all the eligible voters in her county in 2016, Keyana Fedrick did not vote.
Four years later, politics has permeated her corner of northeastern Pennsylvania. Someone sawed a hole in a large Trump sign near one of her jobs. The election office in her county is so overwhelmed with demand that it took over the coroner’s office next door. Her parents, both Democrats born in the 1950s, keep telling her she should vote for Joe Biden. Anything is better than President Donald Trump, they say.
But Fedrick, who works two jobs, at a hotel and at a department store, does not trust either of the two main political parties, because nothing in her 31 years of life has led her to believe that she could. She says they abandon voters like “a bad mom or dad who promises to come and see you, and I’m sitting outside with my bags packed and they never show up.”
An all-Black group is arming itself and demanding change. They are the NFAC
When two loud bangs rang out on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, no one knew where the gunshots came from as protesters gathered to demand justice for another Black man killed by police.
'I went to school and woke up in intensive care'
In 2019, hundreds of school children in Malaysia became seriously ill when they inhaled toxic gases from up to 40 tonnes of chemical waste that were dumped illegally into a river.
BBC World Service's Olivia Le Poidevin visited Pasir Gudang, to meet some of the children who say they’re still suffering long-term effects because of what happened.
The Malaysian government says it's doing more to tackle the problem of illegal waste dumping, but some families are taking legal action against it.
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