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Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero”, meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company on Tuesday showed it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before. Compared with its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 percent. Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. Making that electricity by…

For nearly nine months, Israel’s war on Gaza has forced Palestinians to run from place to place in search of pockets of safety in the besieged Strip. Israel’s latest mass evacuation order told 250,000 displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, to leave, as it carries out renewed attacks in southern Gaza. The order comes as fierce fighting traps Palestinians in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City in the north. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Khan Younis: [Al Jazeera] Where were Palestinians in Khan Younis…

NewsFeedMore than 470 people are in custody after attacks on Syrian shops and cars in central Turkey. Crowds of protesters set Syrian stores and property on fire after a Syrian man was accused of sexually abusing a seven-year old girl in Kayseri.Published On 2 Jul 20242 Jul 2024 Source link

After 14 years of a Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom, far more people are waiting to access medical care, and for longer. The NHS waiting list for treatment referrals in England hit 7.6 million cases in April – a threefold rise since 2010. The referral-to-treatment figures show the number of cases of patients waiting for elective care. As patients can be waiting for multiple treatments, the actual number of people on the list is lower – an estimated 6.3 million. Of the 7.6 million cases, more than 302,500 involved waits longer than 52 weeks. About 50,400 cases were…

The hospital where Sabha and Khan were stationed was also feeling a strain. Though it was designed for 200 people, it housed more than 10,000, according to Sabha. Many patients were suffering from severe injuries. Others faced amputations. Few had anywhere else to go. Sabha recalled that there was only “one bathroom for every 200 to 300 people”. Doctors, meanwhile, had to improvise emergency room (ER) settings. “When patients come into the ER, they don’t have a bed for them. They’re seeing them on the ground,” Sabha said. “In that hospital hallway, you’re always jumping over someone’s leg, over a…

India’s securities regulator has alleged Hindenburg colluded with another entity to help it short Adani Group.Hindenburg Research has denied allegations by India’s securities regulator that it colluded with a United States asset manager to use nonpublic information to set up a short bet against Adani Group last year, which if proven would breach the country’s rules. Hindenburg on Monday posted on its website a copy of a 46-page “show cause” notice from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) outlining the allegations in the latest twist to a saga that began last year when the US-based short seller alleged…

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As the United Kingdom gears up for a general election on Thursday, one issue has emerged at the forefront of voters’ minds – the state of the economy. Since the ruling Conservative Party entered office 14 years ago, the UK’s economy has slowed dramatically. The slowdown is particularly stark when immigration-driven population growth is accounted for and the period before the start of the global financial crisis is included. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita grew just 4.3 percent from 2007 to 2023, compared with 46 percent growth over the previous 16 years, according to research released earlier this month…

Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing their homes in Gaza’s Khan Younis as Israeli forces pound the area with bombs and artillery fire after issuing a new evacuation order for the embattled southern city. The latest strikes on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 in several neighbourhoods of Khan Younis. The wave of attacks, just weeks after Israeli tanks left the area, caused panic among residents, many already displaced multiple times and with no clear path to safety. The Israeli military’s newly declared evacuation zone in Khan Younis encompasses an area where 250,000 people live, said…

More than 470 people have been taken into custody after mobs attacked Syrian shops and cars in central Turkey.Turkey’s government is urging for calm after mob violence against Syrian refugees broke out in the central Melikgazi region and spread to other areas. Riots erupted after Turkish authorities arrested a Syrian man for allegedly sexually abusing a seven-year-old Syrian girl in the central city of Kayseri. Turkish residents, infuriated by online reports of the crime, flipped over cars in Kayseri and set Syrian-run shops alight on Sunday night, demanding that Syrians be kicked out of the country. The violence spread to…