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UK retail industry plays down threat to food supplies from possible farmer strikes
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UK to put Sudan resolution to vote by UN Security Council
Date: November 18, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will seek backing from other United Nations Security Council members on Monday for its demand that Sudan’s warring parties stop hostilities and allow deliveries of aid, the British foreign ministry said. With London holding the rotating presidency of the council, British foreign minister David Lammy is due to chair a vote...
European oil giants step back from renewables path
Date: November 18, 2024
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Almost five years ago, BP embarked on an ambitious attempt to transform itself from an oil company into a business focused on low-carbon power. The British company is now trying to return to its roots as a big oil and gas player with a growth story to match rivals,...
Methane from tropical wetlands is surging, threatening climate plans
Date: November 18, 2024
By Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The world’s warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world’s climate goals are slipping further out of reach. A massive surge in wetlands methane — unaccounted for by national emissions plans and undercounted in scientific models — could raise...
G20 summit confronts a global order unsettled by Trump’s return
Date: November 18, 2024
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies were set to meet on Monday in Brazil for their annual summit, bracing for a shift in the global order with the return to power of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Discussions of trade, climate change and...
Philippines urges residents to flee as super typhoon Man-Yi strengthens on approach
Date: November 17, 2024
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities issued an urgent appeal on Saturday for residents in low-lying areas and coastal towns to move to safety as super typhoon Man-Yi gained strength on its approach towards the country’s main Luzon island. Man-Yi, the sixth tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines in a month, intensified with maximum sustained winds reaching...
While farmers protest, UK’s Starmer says will defend budget ‘all day long’
Date: November 17, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would defend decisions taken in his Labour government’s first budget “all day long”, while farmers protested over changes to inheritance tax. Addressing a Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno, north Wales, Starmer did not refer directly to the farmers’ complaints, but he said he stood...