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World commemorates Rosa Parks Day
1 December marks the day iconic figure Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
According to the UN, record-high global temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions, and higher-than-usual sea level rises are among the climate records broken.
The resumption of fighting dashed hopes for an extension of a seven-day truce that had seen dozens of hostages freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoner releases by Israel.
The militant group said it was willing to extend the truce further, but there was no sign early on Friday morning of whether the two sides would reach terms to extend the halt in fighting for an eight day.
China is making major inroads with infrastructure, investment, loans and other drives to enhance its presence on the continent.
The UN's World Meteorological Organization warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving 'a trail of devastation and despair'.
Henry Kissinger, whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, died on Wednesday aged 100.
The announcement came hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Wednesday night, and with growing pressure for an extension of the pause.
It said that Kissinger's family would hold a private funeral, with a memorial service to take place later in New York, where Kissinger grew up after his Jewish family fled Nazi Germany.
In a comment on X, Musk on 15 November called a post 'the actual truth' that said Jewish communities advocated a 'dialectical hatred against whites', which was criticised as echoing longtime conspiracy theory among white supremacists.
The six-day halt to fighting ends on Thursday morning local time, with a last group of hostages freed from Gaza overnight in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
Russia launched a renewed bid to capture the war-battered town last month and analysts suggest Moscow's forces have made incremental gains, though at an enormous human cost.
A current cessation of hostilities was scheduled to end early Thursday after a six-day pause in a conflict sparked by deadly Hamas attacks that prompted a devastating Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The men were welcomed as heroes after being hauled through 57 metres (187 feet) of steel pipe on stretchers specially fitted with wheels late Tuesday, the culmination of a marathon engineering operation.
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There are fears that a lack of adequate support from the West -- at a time that it is distracted by the Israel-Hamas war -- could end up forcing Kyiv to seek a compromise with Russian President Vladimir Putin from a position of weakness.
Brazil believes that progress, plus its use of 89% clean electricity, gives it leverage heading into the COP28 talks in Dubai, which open Thursday.
Environmental activists say there's no doubt anymore that urgent collective action is needed to preserve a liveable planet.
After a 48-hour extension of an initial four-day truce, a new group of 12 hostages was freed from Gaza on Tuesday, with 30 Palestinians released by Israel.