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Some 50 oil and gas companies worldwide have pledged to shore up leaky methane systems by 2030, a move that could rapidly reduce emissions of the potent gas and forestall some climate change effects — if the companies live up to their word. Some 50 oil and gas companies worldwide have pledged to shore up…
The cost of government is rising, yet raising taxes is bad politics. From productivity to ‘degrowth’, the left ought to get behind the more radical approachesTaxing the better-off is not going to be easy. For one thing, no one can agree on how to go about it. Thinktanks have put forward various proposals, usually targeting…
Read More “If taxing the rich is so fraught, maybe we need a rethink | Phillip Inman” »
For over a decade, investigators worked to piece together the 2010 murder of Heidi Firkus, who, according to her husband Nick Firkus, was shot and killed in a burglary at the couple’s Saint Paul, Minnesota, home.
The cease-fire is over, but not before it offered a glimpse of the war’s horrors to Palestinians in Gaza and people around the world. The cease-fire is over, but not before it offered a glimpse of the war’s horrors to Palestinians in Gaza and people around the world. The cease-fire is over, but not before it…
Read More “Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated” »
Nicaraguan police say they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
Nicaraguan police say they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
Fifty years ago, the “Battle of Versailles” put American models on the map. The event, held just outside of Paris, saw American designers and models dress for battle against the French fashion industry. The catwalk made fashion history, introducing models and designers of color to the runway. Michelle Miller has more.
Fifty years ago, the “Battle of Versailles” put American models on the map. The event, held just outside of Paris, saw American designers and models dress for battle against the French fashion industry. The catwalk made fashion history, introducing models and designers of color to the runway. Michelle Miller has more.
A woman set herself on fire outside the Israel consulate in Atlanta in what officials called an act of political protest. Meanwhile, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed an order to add thousands of more troops to the war in Ukraine. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener.
Macron is calling for unity, but the Israel-Hamas war has sparked a rise in hate crime that threatens a fragile social peaceFrench Jews were only partly reassured when more than 100,000 people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents, turned out to demonstrate in Paris last month against antisemitism and in defence…
Read More “As antisemitism soars, for many Jews in France nowhere feels safe | Paul Taylor” »
