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OSCE Caught In Tug-of-war Between Moscow And West

The OSCE has been struggling to survive since Russia invaded Ukraine
Ministers of the world's largest regional security body are to meet Thursday in Skopje as the 57-member organisation faces its most serious crisis since its creation as tensions from Russia's invasion of Ukraine remain heightened.
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COP28 climate change summit president Ahmed Al Jaber is also head of the UAE's state oil company and state renewable energy firm

UAE Sought To Use COP28 To Advance Oil Deals: Report

The United Arab Emirates planned to exploit meetings with foreign governments arranged due to its COP28 hosting role to strike fossil fuel deals, according to leaked documents obtained by the BBC. The leaked briefing notes, obtained by journalists at the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) working alongside the British broadcaster, were prepared by the UAE's COP28 team for summit president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ahead of meetings with foreign governments between July and October this year.
The UN's humanitarian agency OCHA says 33 districts of Somalia have been struck by floods

Disease Stalks Somali District Ravaged By Floods

The floodwaters in the southwestern Somali district of Dolow may have started to recede -- for now -- but distraught families who have lost their homes, their livelihoods in the muddy deluge are now at risk of potentially fatal disease.
The UAE is changing its building regulations and urban planning to help cope with rising heat

COP28 Host UAE Ready For Rising Heat Risk, Says Minister

The United Arab Emirates is ready for soaring temperatures that are feared to make parts of the Gulf uninhabitable by the end of the century, the oil power's climate change minister told AFP. Long experience of the harsh desert summers has taught the country to live with temperatures that regularly flirt with 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), she said.
Medical Equipment

Greece's Next Hot Export Could Be Medical Tourism

To find out how a small country like Greece ends up competing in the medical service sector and how Americans take advantage of it, International Business Times spoke with Dr. George Patoulis, president of the Athens Medical Association and Elitour, the Greek Health Tourism Council.
Just two weeks before COP28 the UAE inaugurated the Al Dhafra solar power plant -- one of the largest in the world

UAE: Fossil Fuel Power And COP28 Host

A gas-guzzling fossil fuel exporter trying to spearhead more ambitious climate action, the United Arab Emirates remains heavily dependent on hydrocarbons for its prosperity.
2023 is likely the hottest year in human history

Fossil Fuels In The Crosshairs At Pivotal COP28 Talks

World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity's failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for UN climate talks next week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in human history.
Wildfires that devasted Lahaina, Hawaii in August prompted conspiracy theories online

Climate Conspiracy Theories Flourish Ahead Of COP28

Climate conspiracy theories are flourishing with lifestyle influencers joining in the misinformation war and scientists hounded on social media, researchers say, as pressure rises on leaders at the COP28 summit.

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