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Germans and Americans ʼworlds apartʼ in view of relations A study published on Monday by the Pew Research Center found that Americans and Germans were "worlds apart" in how they viewed their countriesʼ relations with one another. While most Germans said current ties were at something of a low point, a comfortable majority of Americans viewed relations positively. In the US, only a quarter of people surveyed said they felt relations were bad, compared with 73 percent of Germans. That figure represents a sharp upturn in negative assessments of the situation compared with 2017, when 56 percent of Germans said relations were poor. However, despite their generally gloomy appraisal, only one in 10 Germans said the relations were "very bad." On the level of cooperation between the countries, Germans were also more circumspect. Seven in 10 Americans said they would like to see the countries collaborate more, while only 41 percent of Germans were keen to see closer cooperation.
UNEP: Still a chance to put out ʼclimate fireʼ — hereʼs what we need to do Detailing the gulf between where we are headed with CO2 emissions and where we need to be, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has released its annualEmissions Gap Report ahead of next weekʼsCOP24 climate summit in Poland. The report finds that current national Paris Agreement commitments fall short of what is needed to limit global temperature increases to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. This hole between where we are on climate protection versus where we actually need to be is known as the emissions gap. UNEP warns that if we do not close the emissions gap by 2030, the possibility of capping warming at 2 C above the preindustrial benchmark will be unreachable. The report also raises concerns over the dwindling feasibility of achieving the far more desirable 1.5 C ceiling of warming.
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Emannuel Macron: ʼYellow vestʼ protests wonʼt change fuel tax He also announced that France will delay capping nuclear power
Though he acknowledged the widespread anger over fuel taxes, the French president said he would not back down from his environmentally friendly policies.
Trump threatens General Motors after announced closures in Midwest Donald Trump has warned General Motors that itʼs "playing around with the wrong person" following plans to close multiple plants in North America. Almost 15,000 jobs will be shed in Ohio, Michigan, Maryland and Ontario. General Motors (GM) may have delivered net income of close to $2.5 billion (€2.2 billion) in the third quarter of 2018 and be on a sound financial footing, but the companyʼs intention to cease operations in three Midwestern statesand the Canadian province of Ontario has beenmet with disdain by the US president. Plans were announced on Monday to cut the General Motors workforce by 15 percent in a move that will hit white-
collar workers hardest, but would also see more than 6,000 production line jobs go as GM looks toinvest in future technologies. These would most likely affect three assembly plants in Detroit, Ohio and Ontario as well as two factories in Michigan and Maryland that build transmissions and batteries. "They better damn well open a new plant there very quickly," Trump told The Wall Street Journal. "I love Ohio. I told them ʼyouʼre playing around with the wrong person.ʼ" Trump added: "I said ʼI heard youʼre closing your plant,ʼ" he recalled from his conversation with Barra. "Itʼs not going to be closed for long, I hope, Mary, because if it is you have a problem."
Why we should stop human gene editing Chinese researcher He Jiankuiʼs claim that heʼs helpedmake the worldʼs first genetically edited babies whose DNA was altered with the new powerfulCRISPR/Cas9tool sounds as credible as it does scary. The researcher cited two documents to prove his case — an application request sent to the ethics committee of the HarMoniCare gynecological clinic, where he claimed the
fertilization was carried out; and a paper informing affected patients in detail about the procedures involved. An investigation is now underway to find out whether the provided documents are genuine and whether the ethics committee really approved the experiments. The clinic in question has already denied the fertilization and the birth of the babies took place in its compound.
India should abandon plans to recover Americanʼs body, rights group says
If Indian policecontinue in their pursuit to recover the body of an American missionaryallegedly killed by islanders on North Sentinel Island, the indigenous Sentinlese tribe could be "wiped out" if any outside diseases were introduced, Survival International said on Monday. "The risk of a deadly epidemic of flu, measles or other outside disease is very real, and increases with every such contact," the organization, which works to protect tribal people, said. John Allen Chau, 26,is believed to have been killedlast week after paying fishermen to smuggle him to the island, which is part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. The Indian government has for years closed off the island to visitors to protect the tribe. Notes left behind by Chau said that he wanted to bring Christianity to the island. He had visited it multiple times before by canoe and said in his diary that he believed he would be killed if he returned.
Germany offers to mediate between Russia and Ukraine Angela Merkel and various members of her Cabinet have appealed to both sides of the Ukraine-Russia conflict to de-escalate amid Ukraineʼs calls for more military support from Germany and NATO. A major crisis in the fouryear conflict was triggered on Sunday when Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian navy ships entering the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait. Russia accused the crews of a border infraction, and the Russian intelligence agency FSB said the presence of intelligence officers on board, admitted by Ukraine, amounted to a "provocation."
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