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Merkel appeals to Putin to intervene in Belarus border crisis

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has asked Vladimir Putin to intervene in the crisis on the Belarus-Poland border in an appeal to Minsk’s key foreign sponsor.

In a phone call, Merkel told Putin that the “use of migrants by the Belarusian regime was inhuman and unacceptable and asked [Putin] to influence the regime in Minsk”, said the chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Seibert.

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Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report

The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN Cop26 summit.

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Daniel Ortega set to win Nicaraguan election denounced as sham

Nicaragua’s authoritarian leaders, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, appeared to have secured another five years in power in an election that the US president, Joe Biden, condemned as an undemocratic “pantomime”.

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Nine Ethiopian factions to form alliance against government

Nine anti-government factions in Ethiopia are to form an alliance, as pressure mounts on the country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, with rebel forces advancing toward the capital.

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Europe once again at centre of Covid pandemic, says WHO

Uneven vaccine coverage and a relaxation of preventive measures have brought Europe to a “critical point” in the pandemic, the World Health Organization has said, with cases again at near-record levels and 500,000 more deaths forecast by February.

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Cop26 emission pledges may limit global heating to below 2C

Plans by India, the world’s third biggest emitter, have made a sizeable difference to the global temperature estimate, research by the University of Melbourne has found.

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Pope Francis urges leaders to take ‘radical’ climate action at Cop26

Pope Francis has urged world leaders to take “radical decisions” at next week’s global environmental summit in a special message recorded for BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.

Leaders attending the Cop26 conference in Glasgow must offer “concrete hope to future generations”, the pontiff said.

Resistir los megaproyectos es hoy cuestión de supervivencia. Historia de los diferentes intentos por colonizar el corredor transístmico y de las resistencias que generan proyectos de esta naturaleza en el capitalismo contemporáneo. Sin perder piso, bien enraizados en nuestros lugares, necesitamos levantar la mirada. Por lo general, quienes luchan por resistir y defender su tierra y territorio o cualquier otra cosa, no piensan en la región, en el Istmo o en el sureste.

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Scrapping submarines deal broke trust, Macron tells Australian PM

The French president has told the Australian prime minister that the scrapping of a multibillion-dollar submarine contract “broke the relationship of trust” and said Canberra should propose “tangible actions” to heal a diplomatic rift.