United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber after a draft of a negotiation deal was released. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky |
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- Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first of its kind deal signaling the eventual end of the oil age. We look at how COP28's final hours of climate negotiations unfolded.
- Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and US President Joe Biden told the longtime ally its "indiscriminate" bombing of civilians was hurting international support.
- A majority of Americans agree with Biden on issues including abortion rights, capping insulin prices and hiking taxes on billionaires, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, but his campaign faces a tough task in getting angry voters to care.
- Russia's second missile assault on Kyiv this week injured at least 53 people, damaging homes and a children's hospital, Ukrainian officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded in Washington for more help for his country.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided defeat in parliament on an emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, seeing off a revolt by dozens of his lawmakers. Bureau Chief Kate Holton speaks to the Reuters World News podcast about Sunak's immigration dilemma.
- A record 49.5 million people are expected to go hungry in West and Central Africa next year due to a combination of conflict, climate change and high food prices, the United Nations said.
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- With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein?
- Why are US stocks sluggish? Some think it is a result of dealers squaring their books ahead of an options expiration that is set to be the largest on record for S&P 500-linked derivatives.
- Britain's economy shrank in October, official data showed, raising the risk of a recession and testing the Bank of England's resolve to stick to its tough anti-inflation line against cutting interest rates from their 15-year high.
- US employers facing surging costs from paying for Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and similar obesity drugs are hiring virtual healthcare providers like Teladoc to implement weight-loss management programs.
- A quest for lower costs and efficiently moving goods and people is pushing demand for driverless technology in trucks and shuttles, even as robotaxis battle renewed doubts after an October accident involving a General Motors Cruise car.
- A winding down of the post-pandemic spending frenzy is hitting European luxury companies from LVMH to Kering, but none more than Farfetch, an e-commerce pioneer.
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'Russia is waking up': soldier's wife finds purpose on Russian home front |
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Natalia Yermakova and her husband Alexander. At an unidentified location, March 23, 2023. Courtesy Natalia Yermakova via REUTERS |
Natalia Yermakova's husband, Alexander, has been fighting in Ukraine for over a year after responding to President Vladimir Putin's mobilization call. Wounded on the battlefield, he was operated on and then sent back to the front after recovering. Now his wife is doing her own bit for the war effort: toiling as a volunteer in a "Family Battalion". She is one of many relatives of mobilized men in Moscow who give up their free time to help out. As Putin positions himself to win a fifth presidential term, it is people like Yermakova - who like many Russians supports the "special military operation" in Ukraine - whom the president is relying on to hold his support base together. |
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An Seung-young, 16, Oh Ji-hwan and Jung Ji-woon of the Deokjeok High School baseball team. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji |
Dreaming of making it big in baseball, teenage brothers An Seung-han and An Seung-young travelled hundreds of miles away from home to remote Deokjeok island, where the sport and their team, are now the closest thing they have to a family. The boys are among a few dozen teenagers who have left the bright lights of some of South Korea's biggest cities to join a specialized sports academy set up by Kim Hak-yong, former manager of the elite Dongguk University team. |
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