| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, November 12, 2021 by Hani Richter and Richard Valdmanis | Hello Here's what you need to know. U.N. climate talks enter last stretch, Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers rest case and Europe becomes the epicenter of pandemic again. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  People hold placards during a protest at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman COP26 The pressure is on. Negotiators for some 200 countries at the UN climate summit in Scotland enter the final hours of talks on Friday, with a mandate to ensure the world can still prevent more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
At the moment, national pledges to slash emissions fall far short of that goal and there’s little hope that new promises will magically appear in the final day of talks.
The agreement may address that gap with language requiring countries to cough up new and improved pledges within a year. Such a provision could allow the conference’s UK organizers to declare victory in the mission to “keep 1.5 alive.’ But getting that language into the text could face resistance from holdouts.
Other sticking points remain, ranging from whether and how rich countries should pay poor ones for “loss and damage” from climate-driven disasters, and whether global carbon markets should be taxed by less developed countries to help fund their adaptation to a warmer world.
Any and all of these issues could trigger posturing announcements from stakeholders eager to have their way when a final deal is done.
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|  John Black, use-of-force expert, is pictured next to Kyle Rittenhouse and defence attorney before the start of Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., November 11, 2021. Mark Hertzberg/Pool via REUTERS U.S. Prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse said they would seek approval for the jury to consider lesser charges after days of testimony in which considerable evidence was presented in the U.S. teenager's argument that he acted in self-defense.
A U.S. appeals court put off allowing congressional investigators access to former President Donald Trump's White House records relating to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and scheduled a hearing on the matter for Nov. 30.
A lawyer for one of the three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery said his team did not want "any more Black pastors coming" into the Georgia courtroom after a civil rights leader attended proceedings.
The death toll in the Astroworld Festival stampede rose to nine with the death of a 22-year-old Texas college student. Bharti Shahani, a Texas A&M University computer science student, died from "horrific injuries," a lawyer for the family said.
A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed American journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years, his lawyer and his employer said, despite U.S. calls for his release from what it said was unjust detention.
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Europe has become the epicenter of the pandemic again, prompting some governments to consider re-imposing unpopular lockdowns in the run-up to Christmas and stirring debate over whether vaccines alone are enough to tame COVID-19.
Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations or African Union do not live "in space" and will be punished for any lawbreaking, the government said, after the arrest of several U.N. employees for unspecified offences.
Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Minsk, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis on its frontier.
An explosion hit a mosque in the Spin Ghar district of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, wounding at least 12 people including the imam of the mosque, local residents said.
Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, a World Health Organization spokesperson said. |  SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he visits the construction site of Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo BUSINESS Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk disclosed an additional share sale worth about $687 million in the electric-car maker, regulatory filings showed, after offloading about $5 billion in stock earlier in the week.
Johnson & Johnson plans to split into two companies, separating its consumer health division that sells Band-Aids and Baby Powder from its pharmaceuticals and medical devices business in the biggest shake-up in its 135-year history.
Japan's Toshiba outlined plans to split into three independent companies, seeking to appease activist shareholders calling for a radical overhaul after years of scandal.
Apple supplier Foxconn forecast that a global chip shortage would run into the second half of 2022 and its fourth-quarter revenue for electronics, including smartphones, would fall more than 15%.
AstraZeneca said it would begin to earn a modest profit from its coronavirus vaccine as the world learns to live with the virus and the drugmaker is in talks with several countries about new orders for delivery next year. | | | | | | | | | Video of the day  In final message, apartheid's last leader apologizes The last apartheid-era president of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk, died on Thursday, and his family put out a video of him apologizing for the wrongs of the apartheid regime. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
