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Overnight News Digest: If you haven't done so tomorrow GO VOTE [1]
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Date: 2022-11-07
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C/NET
After Hurricane Ian ravaged the US and Caribbean, a monsoon flood devastated a third of Pakistan and the hottest summer on record baked Europe, Mother Nature has shown that climate change is creating a material impact on our lives in 2022. It's too late to protect against the damage done, but there's still time to avert future tragedies. The science is clear about how to do this: To mitigate the worst effects of the human-made climate crisis, humanity must prevent temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (we're currently at around 1.3 degrees). That benchmark represents a tipping point, after which the Earth will experience irreversible destruction. Our path to achieving this goal will require countries and businesses to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net zero before 2050. That's why the United Nations' COP27 climate conference, which brings big companies, world leaders and environmental experts together in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, represents the best chance for everyone to get on the same page about how to deal with this crisis.
BBC
The US Department of Justice has revealed it seized $3.36bn (£2.9bn) of Bitcoin last year which was stolen from an infamous darknet website. The stash of 50,676 Bitcoin was found hidden on various devices in a hacker's home in an underfloor safe and inside a popcorn tin. James Zhong has pleaded guilty to hacking the funds in 2012 from the illegal Silk Road marketplace. US authorities say the seizure is the second largest in history. The police raid at Mr Zhong's Georgia home was carried out a year ago but only revealed now. It came at the same time as Bitcoin's value peaked - the seized funds would now be worth about $1.1bn.
BBC
Rishi Sunak has renewed a promise to stop people being smuggled across the Channel, despite coming away from his first face-to-face talks with Emmanuel Macron without any firm commitments. The prime minister vowed to “get a grip of this situation” and promised details about the progress of cross-Channel talks “in the coming weeks”, with No 10 hoping to make a major announcement before Christmas. Downing Street sources said the talks were never meant to be a breakthrough and Sunak himself tried to set expectations back home by downplaying the prospect of the problem being solved overnight.
The Guardian
An eight-year-old girl has been freed after allegedly being locked away by her mother and grandparents in western Germany since she was less than a year old, leaving her so physically underdeveloped as to be barely able to climb a flight of stairs. The girl, named only as “Maria” in German media, is understood to have spent most of the last seven and a half years in a locked room at her grandparents’ house in Attendorn, a town of about 25,000 residents east of Cologne. “She can’t have managed to get much of a glimpse of the outside world,” the prosecutor Patrick Baron von Grotthuss told local newspaper SauerlandKurier
The Guardian
The moon is set to pull off a disappearing act on Tuesday, and those who miss it will have to wait three years for another chance to see something like it again. A total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North America before dawn on Tuesday, giving those further west the best view. In Asia, Australia and the rest of the Pacific, it will be visible after sunset. Uranus is set to be visible just a finger’s width above the moon, resembling a bright star, at that time. The eclipse’s totality will last nearly 90 minutes – from 5.16am to 6.41am ET – as Earth passes directly between the moon and sun.
Deutsche Welle
Cardinal says he abused a 14-year-old girl Ricard said in his statement that "thirty-five years ago, when I was a priest, I behaved in a reprehensible way towards a girl of 14." "There is no doubt that my behavior caused serious and long-lasting consequences for that person," the cardinal said, adding he had asked for forgiveness from her. Ricard was bishop of Bordeaux from 2001 until 2019. He said he would withdraw from all functions and be available to church and legal authorities. Now retired, the cardinal is 78-years-old. Catholic Church under scrutiny An independent commission investigating abuse in the French Catholic Church said last year there were thousands of pedophiles in its ranks over many years.
Deutsche Welle
In videos circulating on social media, male and female students students on Iranian university campuses are seen eating together, often outside the gender-segregated dining halls that were closed after students tore down the walls dividing men and women. Eating together in front of the closed cafeterias is considered act of resistance. The videos are an act of protest and solidarity with anti-government demonstrations that have been going on for months in Iran. In many videos, protesters holding placards also draw attention to fellow students who have been arrested. According to media reports, about 300 students have been detained by authorities . The protesters appear not to be intimidated by the government's clampdown on the demonstrations.
Al Jazeera
Ukraine has accused Russia of looting empty homes in the southern city of Kherson and occupying them with troops in civilian clothes to prepare for street fighting ahead against Kyiv’s army. In recent days, Russia has ordered civilians out of Kherson in anticipation of a Ukrainian assault to recapture the city, the only regional capital Moscow has seized since its invasion in February. Kherson, with a prewar population of nearly 300,000, has been left cold and dark after power and water were cut to the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, both sides said. Russian-installed officials blamed Ukrainian “sabotage” and said they were working to restore electricity. Ukrainian officials said the Russians had dismantled 1.5km (0.9 miles) of power lines, and electricity probably would not return until Ukrainian forces recapture the area.
Al Jazeera
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