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Deloitte research reveals inaction on climate change could cost the world’s economy US$178 trillion by 2070
Date: June 13, 2022
By contrast, the global economy could gain US$43 trillion over the next five decades by rapidly accelerating the transition to net-zero Key highlights: Deloitte’s Global Turning Point Report finds that unchecked climate change could cost the global economy US$178 trillion over the next 50 years, unless global leaders unite in a systemic net-zero transition The...
Germany eyes aid payment for Gazprom Germania – sources
Date: June 13, 2022
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany is preparing a multi-billion euro package for Gazprom Germania, an energy group abandoned by Gazprom, to help it cover higher procurement costs in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two people familiar with the matter said. Talks are at an advanced stage and a deal involving between 5 to 10 billion...
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
Date: June 13, 2022
(Reuters) – Ukrainian defenders were fighting fiercely for “every metre” of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Russian forces pounded a zone where Ukrainian officials said hundreds of civilians were sheltering. FIGHTING * Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said: “About 500 civilians remain on the grounds of the Azot plant in Sievierodonetsk, 40 of them are...
EU agency sees risk of COVID deaths rising as Omicron subvariants spread
Date: June 13, 2022
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Two new subvariants of Omicron, BA.4 and BA.5, are spreading more quickly than other corovanirus variants in Europe, which could lead to more hospitalisations and deaths as they become dominant, the EU’s disease prevention agency said on Monday. Most EU countries have so far detected low rates of the two...
Trump advisers say they told him election fraud claims were illegitimate
Date: June 13, 2022
By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON(Reuters) – Top advisers to then-President Trump told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were not legitimate and would not reverse his election loss, according to video testimony aired on Monday by the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Democratic-led House...
Back to the land: Lebanese family turns to farming to survive crises
Date: June 13, 2022
By Maya Gebeily and Aziz Taher HOULA, Lebanon (Reuters) – In a remote village in southern Lebanon, Qassem Shreim crouched low to examine his wheat crop. Food costs have soared amid a global wheat crisis and Lebanon’s own economic meltdown, but the builder-turned-farmer feels shielded by his self-sufficiency. Like many families in crisis-plagued Lebanon, Shreim...