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Climate Change Committee demands net zero leadership

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

Presented by SSE By CHARLIE COOPER and ABBY WALLACE PRESENTED BY View in your browser or listen to audio— The Climate Change Committee released its annual progress report to parliament overnight. It is a hefty document and we have all the details. — The government says the U.K. can be “proud” of its climate record, while Labour says the report is evidence of “catastrophic negligence.” — In non-CCC news, Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch says that a long-term plan for the automotive sector is coming next month.Good Wednesday morning and welcome to POLITICO Pro Morning Energy and Climate UK. It’s the middle of the week and we have a packed newsletter to celebrate — thank the CCC.As always, please send your thoughts and tips to one or all of us at [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. Or talk to us on Twitter: @hargraver; @charliecooper8; @abby_wallace3. If you are not already a Pro subscriber a...

Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo hit homers in win hours after GM Billy Eppler addresses Mets’ woes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

The Mets front office believes the fate of the team will change this season. Hours after general manager Billy Eppler voiced his confidence in the team he put together, they repaid him by defeating the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-2, on Tuesday night at Citi Field.Brandon Nimmo homered twice, Francisco Lindor hit his 200th career home run and Daniel Vogelbach, the analytical darling that Eppler and Mets continue to play, hit his fifth of the season. Left-hander David Peterson (2-6), who was called up earlier in the day to take Tylor Megill’s place in the rotation, turned in his best performance of the season, tossing six shutout innings.“I wanted to give the team as much as I had and get deep into this ballgame,” Peterson said. “That was kind of the objective.”The Mets’ big inning came in the sixth when Tommy Pham doubled off of right-hander Julio Teheran to score Pete Alonso and make it 5-0. Vogelbach then chased Teheran from the game with a two-run shot...

Column: Chicago Cubs lose 5-1 to Philadelphia Phillies after MLB opts to play despite ‘very unhealthy’ air alert

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

The Chicago Cubs have played in worse-looking conditions at Wrigley Field than Tuesday night’s 5-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.Few can forget the Cubs game against the Atlanta Braves in April 2018 when the wild chill was 25 degrees and players were drenched from the howling rain and a hawk wind in their face the entire afternoon. The Braves blew an eight-run, eighth-inning lead, and cried about the conditions afterward. “If we all don’t come out of here with pneumonia I think we’ll be alright,” Braves reliever Luke Jackson said.But sometimes looks are deceiving. The air quality in Chicago on Tuesday was at a level deemed “very unhealthy” by the Illinois EPA due to smoke from the wildfires in Canada. Commissioner Rob Manfred’s office and the MLB Players Association convened during the day to determine whether to postpone the game, but the league opted to play on.The collective bargaining agreement dictated the decision on such a c...

Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps.The girl, Peyal Aqil, was with friends when she encountered the man who turned out to be a recruiter for a group known as the Revolutionary Youth. She followed him to one of the group’s centers in the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria. Her friends waited for her outside, but she never emerged. Peyal’s mother, Hamrin Alouji, said she and her husband complained to local authorities, to no avail.The group later said Peyal joined willingly, a claim rejected by Alouji. “We consider that at this age, she cannot give consent, even if she was convinced” by the group’s program, Alouji said, sitting for an interview in her daughter’s room, filled with stuffed animals and school texts.Armed group...

Supreme Court rejects novel legislative theory, but leaves a door open for 2024 election challenges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a controversial legal theory that could have changed the way elections are run across the country, but left the door open to more limited challenges that could increase its role in deciding voting disputes during the 2024 presidential election.The court’s 6-3 ruling Tuesday drove a stake through the most extreme version of the so-called independent state legislature theory, which holds that legislatures have absolute power in setting the rules of federal elections and cannot be second-guessed by state courts. That decision cheered voting rights groups.“We beat back the most serious legal threat our democracy has ever faced today,” said Kathay Feng of Common Cause, whose lawsuit challenging congressional districts drawn by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature triggered the case.But for some critics of the theory, the danger is not entirely past.The court found that state courts still must act within “ordinary bounds” when rev...

Kazakhstan and Germany forge deals worth $1.7 billion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

The Kazakh-German Business Forum on 20 June in Astana resulted in the signing of 23 commercial agreements worth more than $1.7 billion, reported the Kazakh Invest national company.The forum was attended by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who arrived in Kazakhstan on June 19 as part of an official visit.The parties agreed to cooperate in the processing of rare earth metals, the production of machine tools, and agricultural machinery, as well as in the textile industry, fisheries, and green energy.One of the major deals is a $22 million agreement signed between Kazenergopower and Siemens to produce medium-voltage distribution devices for the Kazakh energy sector using Siemens technology.Creada Corporation and HMS Bergbau signed a $200 million agreement for the exploration, extraction, and processing of complex rare metal ores in eastern Kazakhstan.The Development Bank of Kazakhstan and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg agreed to finan...

Presidents of Kazakhstan and Germany agree to enhance co-operation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

Kazakhstan intends to deepen people-to-people co-operation with Germany, considering the substantial German diaspora of 226,000 people living in Kazakhstan and over one million former Kazakh citizens residing in Germany, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a joint media briefing with Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on June 20, the Akorda press service reported.“This is a ‘golden bridge’ that strengthens friendship between our peoples, and we intend to deepen cooperation in this area,” added Tokayev.Steinmeier concurred, saying the two countries have close ties. He noted that over the last three decades of diplomatic relations, Kazakh-German cooperation has only grown more robust thanks to the ethnic Germans living in Kazakhstan, as well as Germans from Kazakhstan living in his country.“They make the exchange between our countries vibrant,” Steinmeier said, expressing his intention for a closer partnership with Kazakhstan and Central Asia.Steinmeier noted that Germany...

Blackburn, Brown lead A’s to 2-1 win over Yankees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

By MICHAEL WAGAMANThe Associated PressOAKLAND — Paul Blackburn pitched into the sixth inning for Oakland, allowing one run on Josh Donaldson’s homer in his return to the lineup and sending the Athletics to a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.The slumping Donaldson connected in the fifth in his first action since Friday, but that was it for New York. The 2015 AL MVP went 1 for 4 with two strikeouts, raising his batting average to .132 in 22 games.Seth Brown homered for the second consecutive day as the last-place A’s beat the Yankees for the first time this season after they were swept in a three-game series in the Bronx in May.“A great win tonight,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay said. “Tonight’s game was well-played, well-pitched. We gave a couple outs away on the bases but they didn’t end up hurting us.”Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Paul Blackburn #58 throws against the New York Yankees in the first inning of their MLB game against the New York Yankees at the Co...

Magnitude 3.0 earthquake shakes South Bay

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

GILROY – A magnitude 3.0 earthquake jolted the South Bay late Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake struck around 9:40 p.m. nearly 5 miles northeast of Gilroy and a depth of about 3.7 miles, the USGS reported on its website. It was felt as far north as Fremont, in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and as far south as northern San Benito County.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The quake occurred along the Calaveras Fault, the USGS said. The fault does not share the notoriety of its siblings, the Hayward and San Andreas faults, but it has unleashed a number of notable quakes in recent years, including a magnitude 5.1 in 2022. A magnitude 6.2 quake was reported in 1984, a 5.4 in 2007 and 4.1 in 2017.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Back-to-back earthquakes shake Southern Colorado Crashes and Disasters | Earthquake rattles Northern California Crashes and Disasters | Why the Hayward Fault...

Mueren 21 personas por ola de calor en Tamaulipas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:09 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Gobierno del estado de Tamaulipas, México, informó este martés a través de un comunicado que se registraron 21 personas muertas por la ola de calor que azota el estado.La gobernación agregó que en los hospitales de la secretaria de salud se encuentran 10 pacientes hospitalizados, de los cuales 4 permanecen en terapia intensiva, 4 en piso y 2 en el área de urgencias.— Fidel Gutiérrez contribuyó con este reporte.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source