Новости за 23.06.2021

BRUSSELS — Brussels is pushing to provide 5.7 billion euros ($6.8 billion) of fresh support to help Turkey and other countries around Syria host refugees from their neighbour's civil war, according to a proposal seen Wednesday.

AMMAN — The lawyer of former minister Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan Bin Zeid on Wednesday said they plan to prepare written statements to present to the court next week.

BERLIN — World powers gathered Wednesday in Berlin to seek lasting peace in Libya by ensuring the conflict-wracked North African country stays firmly on the path towards general elections on December 24.

PARIS — Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

AMMAN — The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) on Monday handed out certificates to the staff of the Yemeni Socotra Archipelago Reserve, who participated in an intensive training programme, which reflected RSCN’s experience in maintaining protected areas.

AMMAN — As a result of the increase in sea freight and raw materials’ prices globally, Jordan is expecting a hike in the prices of numerous goods and commodities in the local market, according to President of Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Nael Kabariti.

MANAGUA — With five opposition presidential challengers now in detention, Nicaragua's long-serving leader Daniel Ortega is clearing domestic obstacles to a fourth successive term but lining up considerable international resistance.

LONDON — US stocks mostly pushed higher on Wednesday as interest rate hike fears faded, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq hitting a new-intra day record high.

BURGESS HILL, United Kingdom — A lone worker kneels among the vines at the Ridgeview winery in southern England, as a dozen or so visitors sample the estate's sparking wine.

By Marlowe Hood
Agence France-Presse

PARIS — Global warming thresholds that could tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting or see the Amazon rainforest shrivel into savannah have “grace periods”, giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers have calculated. 

More than a dozen tipping points triggered mainly by rising temperatures could unleash catastrophic changes in Earth’s climate system.

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