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The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations.

The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations.After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the UN General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”“We want the court to confirm that the conduct that has wrecked the climate is unlawful,” Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, who is leading the…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, November 29, inspected the gleaming restored interior of Notre-Dame de Paris, saying workers had done the “impossible” by healing a “national wound” caused by a 2019 fire that ravaged the medieval cathedral.

“What a waste of time!” sighed those close to him. But Bernard Arnault wouldn’t listen. France’s richest man dreams of that old-fashioned black suit embroidered with green silk olive leaves and the sword that is the hallmark of an academician’s uniform. He is campaigning to win over the 46 members of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, one of the five Académies that constitute the Institut de France, devoted to developing literature, science, and the arts. Arnault will be seeking the votes of the académie des sciences’ members on Monday, December 2. He set about the task of joining…

Without debate about Pedro Sánchez’s team in Ferraz or discussion of ideological background, what the socialists are doing this weekend in Seville is a kind of group therapy and sharing about what is happening to them on the eve of what that can happen. The 41st Congress of Seville has been conceived as a necessary procedure to start the organic clock and little else. Maybe wait for a sign from Pedro Sánchez this Sunday that indicates that he will do it again, that he will be able to put luck on his side again.The socialist leader said after the summer…

They make up the hard core in Ferraz after being splashed by complaints of bribe collection and Page denounces the strategy of presenting the party as the objective of a “hunt” even for judges. Read Sánchez keeps Montero and Cerdán at the head of the PSOE and incorporates the Government delegate in Valencia

In Georgia, rallies against the government’s anti-European course and alleged election fraud continue. Demonstrators and police clash. There may have been a fire in the parliament building.The pro-European protests in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi continue. Demonstrators and police clashed in front of parliament on Saturday evening. Masked police in riot gear used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons against protesters who threw fireworks, an AFP news agency reporter observed. Flames could be seen behind a window of the parliament building.The massive protests in the Caucasus state began on Thursday evening. They are particularly directed against the postponement of the country’s…

Australia is taking a big step forward when it comes to banning social media for young people. It’s no surprise that this hasn’t gone down particularly well with the companies concerned. One of the loudest critics – and this is no surprise here either – has been X buyer Elon Musk.

Protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union. Masked police in riot gear fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons at protesters as clashes broke out outside parliament in Tbilisi. Georgia sees third night of mass protests after ruling party suspends EU talks

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te arrived in the US state of Hawaii on Saturday, during a weeklong tour in the Pacific that has prompted Beijing’s anger. Lai’s two-day stop in the US is his first visit since taking office in May. The visit has provoked fierce threats from China, which sees the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan as its territory and opposes any international recognition of its sovereignty. How was Lai met in Hawaii? The Taiwanese president was met at Honolulu International Airport by American Institute in Taiwan official Ingrid Larson,  Hawaii Governor Josh Green, and others. “This is the first time…