Kamis, 31 Oktober 2019
Fire engulfs World Heritage Japanese castle in Okinawa - Guardian News
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2019-10-31 03:35:59Z
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Rabu, 30 Oktober 2019
Turkey rips two House resolutions, summons US ambassador | TheHill - The Hill
Turkey's government on Wednesday knocked two resolutions passed by the House this week after U.S. lawmakers voted to punish Turkey over its invasion of northern Syria and to recognize the killing of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
In a statement to members of the nation's ruling party, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey "strongly condemns" the resolution passed Tuesday to sanction Turkey's government over its assault against Syrian Kurdish forces, which is unlikely to see progress in the GOP-held Senate despite Republican support in the House, according to The Associated Press.
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A second resolution recognizing as genocide the 1915–1917 killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire would also be ignored by Turkey's government, he reportedly added.
“We are saddened that a slander against our country is being accepted by a country’s parliament,” Erdoğan reportedly said of the genocide resolution, adding: “We would consider this accusation the biggest insult towards our nation."
The Turkish foreign ministry also attacked the U.S. over the Armenian genocide, saying in a statement: “Undoubtedly, this resolution will negatively affect the image of the U.S. before the public opinion of Turkey," according to the AP.
Ankara also summoned U.S. Ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield over the two resolutions, while the situation indicates a broader breakdown of relations between the two countries amid Turkey's armed invasion of Kurdish-held lands in Syria.
The invasion has been heavily criticized by U.S. lawmakers, who have accused the Trump administration of abandoning the United States' Kurdish allies by withdrawing military forces from the region earlier this month, a move that was condemned in rare bipartisan fashion in the House.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/468065-turkey-rips-two-house-resolutions-summons-us-ambassador
2019-10-30 12:44:40Z
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Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' - USA TODAY
Greta Thunberg, the teen activist who has inspired millions to strike for action on climate change, doesn't want awards. She wants people to listen to science.
The 16-year-old Swede declined an environmental prize worth $52,000 the Nordic Council, a regional inter-parliamentary organization, awarded her.
"I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour. But the climate movement does not need any more awards," she wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday. "What we need is for our politicians and the people in power (to) start to listen to the current, best available science."
Thunberg, who is currently in California for the Youth Climate Strike in Los Angeles, also criticized Nordic countries, who "have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing," she said.
President of the Nordic Council, Hans Wallmark, said in a statement that he respected Thunberg's decision and that the Council will think carefully about what to do with the prize money.
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The Nordic Council, which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland, hands out annual prizes for literature, youth literature, film, music and the environment, each worth 350,000 Danish kroner, or $52,000.
In Thunberg's place, two fellow climate activists, Sofia and Isabella Axelsson, spoke at a ceremony in Stockholm Tuesday, and read a statement from Thunberg, saying "what we need is for our rulers and politicians to listen to the research."
Thunberg, who has won and declined other awards, rose to prominence after she began striking on Fridays, leaving school to stand in front of Sweden's parliament to protest against inaction on climate change.
She was recently awarded the The Right Livelihood Award, but last year, she also declined the Children’s Climate Prize, awarded by a Swedish electricity company, because some of the finalists flew to the ceremony.
The teen activist sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States on a zero emissions sailboat. She has been a vocal critic of flying because it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate global warming.
Thunberg's even more inspiring message: Asperger's is her 'superpower'
In September, she gave an impassioned speech before the United Nations Climate Action Summit, where she scolded world leaders for not acting quickly and decisively to combat climate change.
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean," she said.
"People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing ... and all you talk about is money and eternal fairy tales of economic growth. How dare you?"
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow USA TODAY's Ryan Miller on Twitter @RyanW_Miller
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/30/greta-thunberg-declines-nordic-council-environmental-prize-money/4095078002/
2019-10-30 12:16:17Z
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Greta Thunberg turns down award, says climate movement doesn't need 'more prizes' - NBC News
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to better tackle global warming, has declined an environmental prize, saying "the climate movement does not need any more prizes."
Two fellow climate activists spoke on Thunberg's behalf at an award ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm for the regional inter-parliamentary Nordic Council's prizes, reading a statement thanking the group for the honor. Thunberg, 16, is currently in California.
But Sofia and Isabella Axelsson quoted Thunberg as saying that "what we need is for our rulers and politicians to listen to the research."
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The Nordic Council hands out annual prizes for literature, youth literature, film, music and the environment, each worth 350,000 Danish kroner ($52,000).
It was not the first prize that the climate activist has won or been nominated for.
Three Norwegian lawmakers nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year because they believe "the massive movement Greta has set in motion is a very important peace contribution."
Last year, about three months into her school climate strike campaign, Thunberg declined another award — the Children's Climate Prize, which is awarded by a Swedish electricity company — because many of the finalists had to fly to Stockholm for the ceremony.
Thunberg notes that flights contribute to global warming, so she sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for two weeks on a zero-emissions sailboat to reach New York. There the Swede scolded a U.N. climate conference in September, repeatedly asking, "How dare you?"
"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and yet all you can talk about is money. You are failing us," she said.
Weeks later, Thunberg won the 2019 Right Livelihood Award — known as the "Alternative Nobel" — "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts."
In May 2019, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine, which named her a "next generation leader."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greta-thunberg-turns-down-award-says-climate-movement-doesn-t-n1073781
2019-10-30 10:53:00Z
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Body found after live-streamer falls climbing Japan's Mount Fuji - CNN
The video -- taken from the hiker's point of view -- shows what appears to be a scene near the top of Japan's iconic mountain, above the clouds. The ground is covered in heavy snow, and the man tells his viewers that it is slippery and dangerous along the route.
"Am I on the right track? So much of the route is covered with snow," he says as he climbs upward.
"I'm slipping," the man shouts, as he then appears to fall.
Authorities were alerted to the incident after receiving calls from people watching the live stream of the climb up the mountain, Aiko Kishibata, a press officer with Shizuoka prefectural police, told CNN earlier Wednesday.
Rescue workers from Shizuoka and Yamanashi, the two prefectures that Mount Fuji straddles, have been searching for the climber since early Tuesday morning, she added.
Officials found a body Wednesday afternoon, and are working to identify it, said Masahiro Haruta, a spokesman for the Shizuoka Prefectural Police. The body was found at an altitude of around 3,000 meters (9,800 feet). Haruta said it was too early to say if the person who died was in fact the live-streamer.
Kishibata said earlier that the accident appeared to have taken place near the summit.
Mount Fuji has been closed for hiking since September, and local police advise people not to climb there because it is especially dangerous when covered in snow, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/asia/mount-fuji-live-stream-body-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
2019-10-30 10:37:00Z
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Boris Johnson's first election PMQs | LIVE - The Sun
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2019-10-30 10:00:41Z
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PM Johnson gambles on a snap election to break Brexit deadlock - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will hold its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally won parliamentary approval for a gamble on a snap ballot that he hopes will break the deadlock over Brexit.
Just two days before the third Brexit deadline of Oct. 31 will be missed despite Johnson’s “do or die” promise to deliver on the divorce on that date, his bid to hold an election before the end of this year was approved by 438 to 20 votes in the House of Commons.
The first Christmas-season election in Britain since 1923 will be hard to call.
Brexit has variously fatigued and enraged swathes of voters while eroding traditional loyalties to the two major parties, Johnson’s Conservatives and Labour.
“It’s time to unite the country and get Brexit done,” Johnson told a meeting of Conservative lawmakers late on Tuesday shortly after securing an election to cheers from a parliament he said had stopped him delivering Brexit.
Johnson, 55, hopes to win a majority to push through the last-minute Brexit deal he struck this month with the European Union while his main opponent, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, is pitching a radical socialist government and another EU referendum.
The election result will be announced on Friday Dec. 13. If no party wins conclusively, the future of Brexit will be thrown up in the air again with options ranging from a tumultuous no-deal exit to another referendum that could scupper the whole divorce.
Corbyn cast the election as a chance for real change. He frames Labour as a socialist alternative to the inequality and close relations with U.S. President Donald Trump that he says characterise Johnson’s premiership.
“A Labour government will be on your side, while Boris Johnson’s Conservatives – who think they’re born to rule – will only look after the privileged few,” Corbyn, 70, said.
He promised to nationalise rail, water and energy companies while taxing high earners to fund public services.
Conservative lawmaker Robert Halfon said that beside Brexit, domestic issues would play large.
Johnson told lawmakers he was going “to take the argument to Corbyn on One nation policies - spending on schools and hospitals and police... It wasn’t just about Brexit,” Halfon said.
When Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, bet on an early election in 2017, she lost her slender majority - a failure that ultimately prevented her from ratifying her Brexit deal in parliament and sank her political career.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Johnson’s Conservatives are ahead of Labour by an average of about 10 percentage points in polls this month, though pollsters underestimated the support for Brexit in 2016 and admit that the models they use are wilting beside the Brexit furnace.
Both major parties will have to fight on at least three fronts: against each other while the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage seeks to poach Brexit voters and the Liberal Democrats seeks to win over opponents of Brexit.
“At last the deadlock in parliament is broken. Brexit now has a chance to succeed,” Farage said.
Additional reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; ; editing by John Stonestreet
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https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/pm-johnson-gambles-on-a-snap-election-to-break-brexit-deadlock-idUSKBN1X90NX
2019-10-30 07:31:00Z
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