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Overnight News Digest: Climate change is changing more than we think [1]
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Date: 2023-01-23
C/NET
Solar eclipse glasses aren't just for solar eclipses. You can use them to keep tabs on the activity of our nearest and dearest star. The sun has been sporting a stunning beauty mark over the last few days, and you might be able to catch it before it hides. Just be sure to use proper eye protection, like legitimate eclipse glasses, when you sungaze. Solar observatories have been tracking sunspot NOAA AR 13190, a jumbo dark region that's several times the size of Earth. The European Space Agency's space weather team shared an image last week that shows just how big it is, with Earth for scale.
The Guardian, Australia
Decisions by environment ministers spanning 15 years to either wave through projects or impose stricter conditions to protect threatened species made no actual difference to the amount of habitat destroyed, according to a new study. More than half of habitat cleared to build infrastructure, mines, urban developments and for agriculture came after a minister had decided projects would have a “non-significant” impact on species and habitat, the study says. Under Australia’s law, projects are referred to the government minister who then deems it “non significant” in terms of environmental impact – meaning it can go ahead – or a controlled action, meaning it requires further assessment. The researchers said projects deemed “non significant” should have seen less habitat cleared than projects classified as having a larger impact on threatened species, but they found there was no difference in the impact.
NPR
A mass shooting over the weekend at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a city east of Los Angeles, killed 11 people and left nine others injured. After an hours-long manhunt, the suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Torrance, about 30 miles southwest of Monterey Park, officials said. The suspect has been identified as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old Asian man. The late Saturday evening attack took place in a predominantly Asian American community on Lunar New Year's Eve, after a popular festival in the area. Ten people — five women and five men — were pronounced dead at the scene Saturday night.
BBC
The 26-year-old man credited with disarming the California shooting suspect had never seen a real gun before. Late on Saturday evening, working at his family-run dance hall in Alhambra, Brandon Tsay found himself staring at one pointed directly at him. "My heart sank, I knew I was going to die," Mr Tsay told the New York Times. He did not know the gunman was believed to have killed 11 people just minutes earlier at another dance hall. Mr Tsay lunged at the man and eventually disarmed him, averting another tragedy. The gunman, identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a van, according to police.
BBC
A former Russian paramilitary commander who claimed asylum in Norway earlier this month has been arrested by police. Andrey Medvedev is being held under the Immigration Act, police spokesperson Jon Andreas Johansen told the BBC. His lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, told the BBC that the 26-year-old had been moved to a detention centre in the Oslo area. Mr Medvedev, who crossed into Norway from Russia's far north two weeks ago, is believed to be the first member of the Wagner Group to defect to the West. The mercenary group - which is believed to have close ties to the Kremlin - has been used in many Russian operations. UK officials estimate it makes up 10% of Moscow's forces in Ukraine.
USA Today
A former FBI counterintelligence official has been charged in two separate cases involving his dealings with foreign operatives, including efforts to assist Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who was accused last year of violating U.S. sanctions against the Kremlin. Charles McGonigal, who once headed the FBI's New York Counterintelligence Division, also is accused in the separate case of receiving $225,000 in cash from a former foreign intelligence source who provided information to the bureau in investigations that McGonigal oversaw. The payments began flowing to McGonigal a year before his 2018 retirement and continued after he left the FBI, federal prosecutors said.
Reuters
BRASILIA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Brazil and Argentina sparked some excitement on Sunday over the possibility of a potential "currency union", though the two countries are unlikely to ditch the real or peso any time soon. So what is the plan all about? WHAT DID THEY SAY? In a joint letter, new Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentine leader Alberto Fernandez said they wanted to "advance discussions on a common South American currency" to be used for financial and trade flows.
The Guardian, UK
Rishi Sunak has instructed his ethics adviser to investigate the tax affairs of the Conservative party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, but faces growing pressure over whether he knew about the HMRC inquiry when he appointed Zahawi to his cabinet. The prime minister admitted there were “questions that need answering” after suggestions that Zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to HMRC after an investigation while he was Boris Johnson’s chancellor. Sunak’s official spokesperson said the prime minister was not aware that Zahawi had paid a penalty to HMRC when he told MPs in the Commons last week his colleague had “addressed the matter in full”, adding that when the prime minister appointed him he was assured by officials there were “no outstanding issues”.
The Guardian, UK
Health union leaders have urged Rishi Sunak to resolve the deepening NHS pay dispute in the next two weeks to stop the biggest strike in the service’s history going ahead on 6 February. They made their plea as about 16,000 paramedics, call handlers and other ambulance staff in England held the latest stoppage on Monday in their campaign against ministers’ imposition of a below-inflation £1,400 pay rise. Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite , said 6 February, when nurses and ambulance personnel are to stage unprecedented joint strike action, was set to be “a very bad day for the NHS”. However, the prime minister could avoid that by making unions a fresh offer on salary levels for 2022/23 that they could then ask their members to vote on, she said.
The Guardian, US
A jury has convicted the man who invaded the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, with a mob of extremist Donald Trump supporters and was pictured with his foot up on a desk in then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Richard Barnett, from Gravette, Arkansas, was found guilty on all counts after the jury deliberated for about two hours on Monday, including felony obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and theft of government property after he took an envelope from Pelosi’s desk. Barnett became infamous after pictures and video circulated of him lounging at a desk in Pelosi’s office during the riots.
The Guardian, US
Four members of the Oath Keepers anti-government militia were convicted on Monday of seditious conspiracy relating to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, after the second major trial accusing far-right extremists of plotting to forcibly keep the former US president in power. The verdict against Joseph Hackett of Sarasota, Florida, Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas, David Moerschel of Punta Gorda, Florida, and Edward Vallejo of Phoenix, Arizona, came a few weeks after a different jury convicted the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, in the mob’s attack that delayed the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over Republican Trump.
Al Jazeera
Burkina Faso has decided to end a military accord that allowed French troops to fight armed groups in the country, the government has said. Burkinabe authorities want France to pull its troops out of the country within a month, government spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said on Monday. Armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL have taken over large swathes of land in Burkina Faso and displaced millions of people in the wider Sahel region, just south of the Sahara. The West African country’s national television station reported on Saturday that the government had suspended the 2018 military accord with France, though it still wanted support in the form of equipment.
Deutsche Welle
Treason charges have been brought against five people who allegedly planned to overthrow the German government, the federal prosecutor's office said Monday. The individuals, all of whom have ties to Germany's far-right Reichsbürger scene, as well as other neo-Nazi gangs, aimed to trigger "civil war-like conditions in Germany by means of violence" in order to topple the government, the prosecutor said. The defendants are also accused of planning to kidnap German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach. Lauterbach thanked investigators and Germany's federal criminal police for the arrest. "Criminal federal police officials risk their lives for us. This is a great service," he tweeted.
Deutsche Welle
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said Warsaw could send Kyiv Leopard 2 tanks without Germany's permission. "We will ask for such permission, but this is an issue of secondary importance," Morawiecki said. "Even if we did not get this approval, we would still transfer our tanks together with others to Ukraine." "Even if Germany is not in this coalition, we will hand over our tanks, together with the others, to Ukraine." Morawiecki said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's statement on Sunday that Berlin would not obstruct Polish efforts to send German-made tanks to Ukraine represented a "spark of hope" that Germany might join the coalition of countries ready to send Ukraine tanks. "We are constantly exerting pressure on the government in Berlin to make its Leopards available," the Polish premier said. He added that Germany has "more than 350 active Leopards and about 200 in storage."
NPR
It's been 80 years since the Hollywood classic Casablanca opened nationwide. Set at Rick's Cafe, a nightclub in the Moroccan city during World War II, the story centers around a love triangle. Humphrey Bogart stars as Rick, the cynical American bar owner who repeatedly claims to be neutral in the war. Ingrid Bergman plays his old flame Ilsa Lund, who is now married to Victor Laszlo, a dashing resistance leader played by Paul Henreid. But Casablanca is more than just a love story. It is a film about, and stocked with, the waves of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during wartime. And many of the actors playing those roles were, in fact, refugees.
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