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Overnight News Digest: UN: 'Ozone layer may be restored in just decades' [1]
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Date: 2023-01-09
x Over 7,000 nurses in NYC are on strike for fair contracts that improve patient care.
This should be much bigger news. Everyone follow @nynurses to keep track of this.pic.twitter.com/RajU7D1fDY — Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 9, 2023
C/NET
I put my hands out flat and loaded them into a pair of gloves loaded with joints, cables, pumps and tightening straps. All of this, connected to a backpack-size box that helped pump pressure around my fingers and create sensations of touching things. I was about to play Jenga in VR using an $80,000 pair of haptic gloves made by HaptX. The future of the metaverse, or how we'll dip into virtual worlds, seems to involve VR and AR, sometimes. If it does, it'll also mean solving what we do with our hands. While companies like Meta are already researching ways that neural input bands and haptic gloves could replace controllers, none of that is coming for years. In the meantime, is there anything better than the VR game controllers already out there or basic camera-based hand tracking? I've tried a couple of haptic gloves before, but I was ready to try more.
BBC
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been taken to hospital with abdominal pain, his wife said. It comes a day after thousands of his supporters stormed government offices in the Brazilian capital. Mr Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital near Orlando on Monday, according to reports. The former president was stabbed in 2018 and has since struggled with abdominal pain on occasion. On Instagram on Monday, Michelle Bolsonaro confirmed that her husband was under observation due to abdominal discomfort. A source close to the family said his condition was "not worrying", according to Reuters. The story was initially reported by Brazilian news outlet O Globo.
Deutsche Welle
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the storming of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace "an attack on democracy." Thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the buildings. The German chancellor on Monday strongly criticized the storming of government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Thousands of supporters of Bolsonaro — who lost Brazil's presidential election in October — stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace and ransacked the buildings. In a tweet on Monday morning, Chancellor Olaf Scholz decried the "terrible images" out of Brazil. "The violent attacks on the democratic institutions are an assault on democracy that cannot be tolerated," Scholz said in a tweet.
Deutsche Welle
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday to keep in place a key border crossing from Turkey to Syria's rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries. The motion means the aid corridor will remain open for another six months, until July 10, providing aid to some 4 million people in the conflict-ridden country. Despite abstaining on or vetoing cross-border aid deliveries in the past, Russia supported the resolution. Moscow has previously sought to replace humanitarian aid with convoys from government-held areas across conflict lines in and around Syria's Idlib province.
Al Jazeera
United States President Joe Biden has arrived in Mexico ahead of bilateral meetings with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as a joint gathering of the three North American leaders, dubbed the “Three Amigos” summit. Issues of migration, illegal drugs, climate change, manufacturing and trade were set to dominate the two days of meetings between the longtime allies, who have weathered some chafing in relations in recent years. Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty International called on the leaders to make “the rights of refugees and migrants” a top priority.
Al Jazeera
Sweden’s government says it is taking steps to reintroduce conscription of civilians for its emergency services in the latest move by the Nordic nation to shore up its defence capabilities since Russia invaded Ukraine. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday that the civil service will start preparations for the move this week. “We’re going back to a situation where we have a formalised civil duty,” Kristersson said at a news conference alongside Defence Minister Pal Jonson and Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin. Bohlin said the scheme will focus on deploying appropriately trained civilians within the municipal rescue services and bolstering their capabilities to respond in a state of emergency or to any potential attack.
Al Jazeera
Pakistan says donors at an international conference in Geneva have pledged to give more than $9bn to help it rebuild following last year’s devastating floods. Pakistan is hosting the event in Geneva on Monday with the United Nations as it seeks international assistance to cover around half of a total $16.3bn recovery bill. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the one-day conference, attended by officials from nearly 40 other countries as well as private donors and international financial institutions. The unprecedented floods caused by melting glaciers and record monsoon rains last year affected more than 33 million Pakistanis, killing more than 1,700 people and pushing about nine million others into poverty, according to the UN.
The Guardian
Two women were killed and several other people were wounded in a Russian missile strike on a market in the village of Shevchenkove in eastern Ukraine. Several civilians were injured in the shelling, including a 13-year-old girl.
New deliveries of western weapons to Kyiv would “deepen the suffering of the Ukrainian people” and would not change the course of the conflict, the Kremlin claimed on Monday. As Ukraine seeks further support from Western allies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “This supply will not be able to change anything”, according to Reuters.
The Kremlin on Monday rejected a Ukrainian assertion that a senior Russian official has been floating the idea of a potential peace deal over Ukraine with European officials. When asked about the secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council Oleksiy Danilov’s assertion that Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration, had been holding meetings with European officials in an attempt to force Kyiv to sign a peace deal, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was “another fake”.
The Guardian, UK
Strikes by paramedics and nurses will go ahead from this week despite Rishi Sunak’s major U-turn on allowing new pay negotiations, with unions frustrated at ministers for not yet making a concrete offer. The health secretary, Steve Barclay, has agreed to discuss the possibility of a lump-sum payment or backdating a future pay deal in order to end NHS strikes, according to multiple sources. Further talks are expected later this week, the Guardian understands, as well as negotiations between Barclay and the Treasury. Though health unions publicly attacked the talks as disappointing, both union and government sources acknowledged a significant change in approach, with ministers prepared to ease the pain staff were experiencing because of the cost of living.
A former Conservative minister has quit the party, claiming it is dominated by “ideology and self-obsession”, and has instead thrown her support behind Keir Starmer. Claire Perry O’Neill, who was part of Theresa May’s cabinet and was briefly retained by Boris Johnson to help run preparations for the Cop26 summit, praised the Labour leader’s “sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership”. Perry O’Neill, who was a Tory MP from 2010 to 2019, said she liked and admired the prime minister, Rishi Sunak , and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. But in an article, she said the pair had become too beholden to inter-party factions to “deliver the big changes we need in a fact-based, competent way”.
The Guardian, Australia
The Australia China Business Council has urged Labor to retain the “golden ticket” significant investor visa after the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, signalled it could be axed. The council made the call in a submission to the home affairs department’s migration review, which has also reignited debate between business and unions about the level of migration and raising the pay floor for temporary skilled migrants. The Business Chamber of Australia has warned the promised rise in the pay floor should be phased in gradually and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants only a “modest” rise to $60,000.
The Guardian, International
The Vatican has reopened an investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a case that has gripped Italy for almost 40 years and embroiled the powerful Holy See. Emanuela was 15 when she vanished on 22 June 1983 while making her way home from a flute lesson in Rome. The Orlandi family lived in Vatican City, where her father was a lay employee in the papal household. The case has triggered several theories, including that Emanuela was kidnapped by a gang in order to blackmail the Vatican into releasing Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was jailed in 1981 after trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II , but has never yielded any concrete answers.
NPR
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has returned home to Buffalo after a nearly week-long stay at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed during last week's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. During a Monday news conference, doctors said Hamlin was discharged from the hospital earlier in the day and flown to Buffalo, where he is said to be "doing well" and in "the beginning of the next stage of his recovery." Doctors say they are still unsure what caused his collapse during the Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals a week ago.
NPR
Another powerful winter storm system is approaching California, where intense downpour has already wreaked havoc on communities earlier this month. The National Weather Service says California will likely see two major episodes of rain"in quick succession" on Monday and Tuesday. The first downpour is expected to especially pummel the central California coast, which is expected to see up to 3 to 5 inches of rain. The second deluge, on Tuesday, is predicted to mainly unload on southern California. Heavy rainfall will also likely cause more flooding, dangerous mudslides, power outages and tree damage. But it's not just rain that's a worry. More than six feet of snow is expected to pile on the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California up until Wednesday — increasing the risk of avalanches.
Washington Post
A complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission accused Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has admitted to fabricating key details of his biography, of wide-ranging campaign finance violations. The alleged wrongdoing includes masking the true source of his campaign’s funding, misrepresenting his campaign’s spending and using campaign resources to cover personal expenses. The complaint, filed by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, could propel a formal investigation into Santos by the federal regulator, the latest chapter in a saga testing the boundaries of political falsehood. Santos has been revealed to have lied about his heritage, education and professional qualifications during his campaign for Congress last year.
New York Times
WASHINGTON — House Republicans, in one of their first legislative moves, will seek to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service, as conservative lawmakers try to kneecap President Biden’s $80 billion overhaul of the beleaguered agency. The measure, which could come to the House floor as early as Monday evening, does not have the votes to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, let alone receive approval from Mr. Biden. But the legislation serves as an opening salvo from the new Republican majority, which is seeking to undercut the policy accomplishments of Democrats over the past two years, when they controlled both Congress and the White House. The administration, in a statement of policy confirming that Mr. Biden would veto the measure, dismissed it as “a reckless bill” that demonstrated the new majority’s “top economic priority is to allow the rich and multibillion-dollar corporations to skip out on their taxes, while making life harder for ordinary, middle-class families that pay the taxes they owe.”
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