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Mike Pompeo Meets Turkish President to Discuss Saudi Journalist’s Fate

ISTANBUL — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met on Wednesday with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, trying to resolve the international uproar over the alleged killing of a journalist inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and said that Saudi officials had promised consequences for anyone — even a member of the royal family — found responsible.

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China Breaks Silence on Muslim Detention Camps, Calling Them ‘Humane’

BEIJING — Under mounting international criticism, China has given its most extensive defense yet of its sweeping campaign to detain and indoctrinate Muslims, with a senior official on Tuesday describing its network of camps in the far west as humane job-training centers.

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Saudi Arabia and U.S. Clash Over Khashoggi Case

ISTANBUL — The disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggiis opening a rift between Washington and Saudi Arabia as the kingdom blasted President Trump on Sunday for promising “severe punishment” if the royal court was responsible.

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North Korea Weaponizes Its Deal With Trump to Tangle Talks

SEOUL, South Korea — In hailing the deal he reached with Kim Jong-un this summer in Singapore, President Trump said it “largely solved” the North Korean nuclear crisis.

He has since doubled down on that statement, most recently on Tuesday. “People don’t realize the importance of the first meeting,” he said. “I mean, we said, ‘Point No. 1: denuclearization.’ They’ve agreed to denuclearization.”

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Khashoggi’s Disappearance Puts Kushner’s Bet on Saudi Crown Prince at Risk

WASHINGTON — For President Trump, who has made Saudi Arabia the fulcrum of his Middle East policy, the possible murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey is a looming diplomatic crisis. For Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, it is a personal reckoning.

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In New Slap at China, U.S. Expands Power to Block Foreign Investments

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it would begin reviewing foreign investments in American companies more broadly, initiating new powers that give the United States greater authority to block Chinese and other foreign transactions on national security grounds.

THE GUARDIAN

Amazon at risk from Bolsonaro's grim attack on the environment

In the Amazon, illegal loggers, miners, land-grabbers, as well as large land owners have rallied to his banner. Here, they don’t expect Bolsonaro to enforce the law. On the contrary, the hope is that he fulfils his promise to obliterate nearly all environment and pro-indigenous legislation. He won massive support in rural central western states and all but one Amazonian state.

Urge detener el calentamiento de la Tierra: coinciden los ganadores del Premio Nobel de Economía
y el Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático

William Nordhaus y Paul Romer, galardonados con el Nobel de Economía, y los científicos del clima del Grupo Intergubernamental de la ONU, advierten que solo se cuenta con 12 años para frenar el calentamiento global y mantenerlo en un máximo de 1.5 °C. Un aumento mayor en la temperatura, incluso de medio grado, incrementará significativamente los riesgos de sequía, inundaciones, calor extremo y pobreza para cientos de millones de personas en el mundo.

El futuro del Planeta en riesgo

Esta semana, en Corea del Sur, se encuentra reunido el Panel Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC), con el fin evaluar y proponer acciones para frenar los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos que han afectado a todo el mundo, desde las sequías y temperaturas récord en el norte de Europa, los incendios forestales en los EE. UU., las olas de calor y la sequía de China, las inusuales inundaciones en Inglaterra y en el Sur, o las atípicas lluvias “explosivas” de Jalisco, Coahuila y Sinaloa, en México. En este contexto es urgente que los gobiernos del mundo lleven a cabo acciones drásticas para disminuir el aumento de gases invernadero y de la temperatura.