Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report
Research from world’s top climate analysis coalition contrasts sharply with last week’s optimism
The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN Cop26 summit.
Temperature rises will top 2.4C by the end of this century, based on the short-term goals countries have set out, according to research published in Glasgow on Tuesday.
That would far exceed the 2C upper limit the Paris accord said the world needed to stay “well below”, and the much safer 1.5C limit aimed for at the Cop26 talks.
Poland seals Belarus border crossing in migrant standoff
The EU accused Belarus of using "gangster-style" tactics by pushing migrants into Poland and threatened more sanctions. But Alexander Lukashenko remains defiant.
Polish officials closed the crossing with Belarus at the border town of Kuznica on Tuesday morning, a day after thousands of migrants arrived in the area seeking to cross into the EU.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki described the incident as a "hybrid attack" conducted by the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
"Sealing the Polish border is our national interest. But today the stability and security of the entire EU is at stake," Morawiecki wrote on Twitter.
China’s Xi Jinping rewrites history to secure his political future
The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party gather this week to ratify a resolution on the ruling party’s “great achievements”, a move that will likely allow President Xi Jinping to secure an unprecedented third term and overturn the party’s last historical resolution, passed during the Deng Xiaoping era.
Xi Jinping is looking to rewrite history. At a four-day conference of the Communist Party’s powerful Central Committee that began on Monday, delegates are set to cement Xi’s status as one of China’s greats.
Around 400 top members of the regime are meeting behind closed doors to discuss the text of a resolution that has not been released to the public. The document is likely to be a "reinterpretation of some recent events in Chinese history”, explained Marc Lanteigne, a China specialist at the Arctic University of Norway, in an interview with FRANCE 24.
Trump-flag waving anti-vaccine protesters rally at New Zealand’s Parliament
By Sophie Cornish
Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protesters marched to New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday after blocking city streets for an event that attracted heavy security.
The Freedom and Rights Coalition protest, seemingly against the government’s vaccine mandate, swelled in size by the time it had left its rallying point. The coalition has a website registered to Destiny Church.
A large contingent of motorcycles was also involved. Many people who joined the protest said they were not against vaccination but against the government mandates.
One self-employed business owner, who gave her name only as Sarah, said that “the truth doesn’t mind being questioned”.
Jerusalem: Palestinians at risk of displacement due to demolition
Seventy residents say they will be left homeless if Israeli authorities greenlight demolition of their building in occupied East Jerusalem.
Some 70 Palestinians, about half of whom are children, are at risk of forced displacement in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Tur as they await an Israeli court decision over the fate of their five-storey residential building.
Israeli occupation authorities informed residents on November 4 that they had a week left in their homes before the building would be demolished for lacking a building permit.
The residents told Al Jazeera they were offered another ultimatum on Sunday: to either pay a refundable 200,000 shekels ($64,400) and have until the end of the month to self-demolish, or the state will do it for them – at a cost of two million shekels ($644,000).
China's new high-tech aircraft carrier could launch in early 2022, satellite imagery analysis shows
A new Chinese aircraft carrier with technology nearly equaling the capabilities of its US counterparts could be launched as soon as February next year, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by a Washington-based think tank.
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