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China issues winter’s first snowstorm orange alert, cold snap sweeps country

Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s weather agency issued the winter’s first snowstorm orange alert, the second-highest level, on Sunday while nationwide cold wave alarms fuelled concerns over traffic disruptions and flu outbreaks amid rising COVID-19 cases. The National Meteorological Centre forecast blizzards in northeastern China, with some regions getting 45 millimetres (1.8 inches) […]

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Sydney to further ease COVID-19 curbs on Monday as vaccinations pick up

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – Australia’s largest city of Sydney will further ease social distancing curbs on Monday, a month after emerging from a coronavirus lockdown that lasted nearly 100 days, as close to 90% of people have got both doses of vaccine, officials said. Although limited to people who are fully inoculated, the relaxation

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Kraken blow two-goal lead and hand Coyotes their first win of the season in painful road loss

Published by The Seattle Times GLENDALE, Ariz. – Games like these are ones that should have had the heavily favored Seattl Kraken nervous before puck drop and possibly even more so after they’d scored twice before the contest was even a minute old. The Arizona Coyotes are going through a hellacious and likely final season

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Iraqi PM safe after drone attack on residence, military says

Published by Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but said Kadhimi escaped unhurt. The attack, which security sources said injured several members of Kadhimi’s personal protection detail, came after protests

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Gulmarg, Pahalgam freezes, night temperature rises elsewhere in Kashmir

Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, Nov 7 Sub-zero temperatures continued in Pahalgam and Gulmarg even as night temperature recorded a slight rise at most places in Kashmir Valley on Sunday. A meteorological department official here said that Srinagar recorded a low of 5.5°C against 5.2°C on the previous night. The temperature is however above 3.7°C for this

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Explainer-What’s the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming?

Published by Reuters By Kate Abnett GLASGOW (Reuters) – Over and over at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, world leaders have stressed the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2015 Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to

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German virologist urges continued testing as states drop requirement

Published by DPA German virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit has warned people not to overestimate the effect of the rules that allow only the vaccinated and those recovered from Covid-19 to attend events, making the case for widespread testing to continue. The rule, known in Germany as the 2G rule after the first letter of the words

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Protesters hit Glasgow streets as part of global climate rallies

Published by AFP Glasgow (AFP) – Thousands of climate protesters braved torrential rain in Glasgow on Saturday to take part in worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure of crunch UN talks to bring about the radical action needed to tame global warming. Dozens of events are planned worldwide to demand cuts in

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