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For the 11th consecutive day, tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets of Tbilisi, determined to keep their European Union membership aspirations alive. The protests target the ruling Georgian Dream party’s controversial decision to suspend EU accession talks for four years.

UK ‘needs to play catch-up’ in global race to rewire electricity grids For every £1 spent on renewable energy projects, only 25p was invested in connecting them to grid, report findsThe UK is lagging behind in the race to rewire the world’s power grids by investing four times more on renewable energy projects than on the electricity cables needed to connect them to the grid and consumers, according to a new report.For every pound the UK has spent on renewables it has spent only 25p on the cables and power lines, claims the report by Bloomberg NEF, which placed the…

The ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad has reportedly fled to Moscow, where his long-term ally, Russia, has granted him asylum. It comes after a rapid rebel offensive seized Damascus, ending five decades of Assad family rule.

We remain the country of bribes. The active participation of citizens is essential to maintain high attention on one of Italy’s endemic evils The Italy of corruption, the duty to rebel even in the workplace https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/08/news/l_italia_della_corruzione_il_dovere_di_ribellarsi_anche_sul_posto_di_lavoro-423855924/?rss

Doe alleges that she was offered a drink, which left her feeling “woozy, lightheaded, and needing to lie down.” Shortly thereafter, according to the suit, P Diddy and Jay-Z entered the room. P. Diddy allegedly told her, “You are ready to party.”

Local protests in the 80s calling for nuclear disarmament In 1982, anti-nuclear protestors staged a demonstration in a Gwent town when a Royal Navy lecture team visited the county.  The lecture, at Abertillery leisure centre, was attended by 200 people, including a twenty-strong continent from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.  The protestors delivered a written request for a debate to be opened on nuclear arms to lecturer Captain Mike Cole. They were allowed to leave leaflets on seats alongside Navy brochures and Captain Cole said he would pass on their request to his superiors. Anti-nuclear protestors demonstrating at Abertillery leisure…

At a secondary school on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, the speaker finished an address to the assembled pupils with a little mantra that was all too familiar to me. I grew up with it. My parents, especially my mother, would often impress upon me and my nine siblings the exact same thing: that our focus should be on “Education, education, education”. The unspoken subtext being, of course, that education was the only escape route from the lowly position that we (and they) had been born into. This time, the advice was being delivered in an entirely different context.…

Karl Bareham: British music producer who died when diving off Byron Bay may have suffered alcohol withdrawal, inquest hears Death of Karl Bareham, 37, in 2019 was controversial with coroner told diving equipment may have been faulty and ‘dangerous’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A British music producer who died while scuba diving off Byron Bay in New South Wales may have been suffering symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and using faulty dive equipment, a court has heard. The NSW deputy coroner on Monday heard that Karl…

This will be the first calendar year that temperatures have been 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, according to a European study being released on Monday, with Irish climate experts saying this underlines the need for climate action to be a priority for the incoming government. The latest report from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says it can “now confirm with virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record”. It states that while the development does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, “it does mean ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever.”  Under the Paris…

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, is laying the foundations of his mandate pending the tense renewal process of the Esquerra executive, which has so far prevented the budgets from being agreed. Illa proposed at the beginning of his mandate to have the accounts ready on January 1, but he has already admitted that the deadline will be extended to the first quarter of the year. The Republicans will choose their new executive next Saturday and from then on the Government hopes to accelerate the talks. The situation, however, has been clouded by the two ERC candidates who aspire…