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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Narendra Modi’s New New Delhi</strong> - A multibillion-dollar revamp of India’s capital complex reflects the Prime Minister’s vision for the country’s future—and what he wants to erase from its past. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/narendra-modis-new-new-delhi">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Did Authoritarianism Cause China’s Economic Crisis?</strong> - An erosion of trust between the government and its people now threatens the country’s decades-long boom. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/did-authoritarianism-cause-chinas-economic-crisis">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can Teachers and Parents Get Better at Talking to One Another?</strong> - Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-teachers-and-parents-get-better-at-talking-to-one-another">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>David Grann on Turning Best-Sellers Into Movies</strong> - The author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Wager” on his reporting process and adapting his work to the screen. Plus, Richard Brody makes the case for keeping your DVDs. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/david-grann-on-turning-best-sellers-into-movies">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why “Alone” Is the Best Reality Show Ever Made</strong> - As contestants devolve into hunger and desolation, the camera proves to be as uncaring as the wilderness itself. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-alone-is-the-best-reality-show-ever-made">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The Southern Hemisphere, where it’s winter, has been really hot too</strong> -
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São Paulo, Brazil experienced 90-degree temperatures last month, during winter. | Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Australia had heat waves in the past few months. Now spring begins.
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It’s been a hot, brutal, <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23807520/heat-wave-record-temperature-history-death-valley-climate">record-breaking summer</a> across much of the world, and it’s not quite ready to let go as late-season heat waves bake parts of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/nyc-heat-wave.html">United States</a>, the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66730779">United Kingdom</a>, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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The long goodbye is a fitting cap to a season of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/us/extreme-heat-death-toll-underestimate-climate/index.html">deadly heat</a> that contributed to <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/weather/heat/severe-drought-conditions-phoenix-maricopa-county-summer-temperatures-weather/75-67b682be-39b8-488a-a59f-e0c2083d425a">severe drought</a> in some areas and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/14/florida-fort-lauderdale-flooding/">torrential rainfall</a> in others. High temperatures also set the stage for wildfires in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scorched-europe-battles-deadly-fires-turkey-shuts-shipping-lane-2023-08-23/">Greece and Turkey</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/science/2023/6/7/23752832/canada-fires-smoke-climate-change">Canada</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/8/9/23826015/maui-fire-2023-lahaina-hawaii-cause">Hawaii</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/8/30/23852363/louisiana-wildfires">Louisiana</a>.
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But at least people north of the equator can look forward to some relief as autumn and winter set in. The <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/southern-hemisphere-countries">850 million people</a> in the Southern Hemisphere, on the other hand, are emerging from some of their <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Southern-Hemisphere-Sees-Unprecedented-Summer-Like-Winter-20230809-0006.html">hottest winter temperatures</a> on record and <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/australia-facing-unseasonably-hot-dry-weather-/7190207.html">bracing for even more heat</a> as the warmer seasons begin.
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In fact, the weather was pretty much like summer in June, July, and August across parts of South America, Africa, and Australia. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/winter-heat-wave-sends-peruvians-flocking-beach-2023-08-07/">Peruvians</a> went to the beach last month as temperatures reached 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Similarly balmy weather engulfed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/world/americas/south-america-chile-heat-wave-winter.html">Paraguay and Chile</a>. Buenos Aires, Argentina, reached <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/south-america-argentina-and-chile-gripped-by-extreme-mid-winter-heat.html">86°F</a>, the hottest August temperature in at least 117 years. The heat was downright dangerous in <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/copacabana-unusually-balmy-weather-hits-brazil-rare-winter-102546152">Brazil</a> as thermometers ticked above 100°F. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology confirmed this month that Australia experienced its <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-01/bom-confirms-australia-s-warmest-winter-on-record/102804760">hottest winter since record keeping began</a> more than a century ago. Even down near the South Pole, warmer air and water have led to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino">lowest sea ice extent on record around Antarctica</a>.
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“Some of these set new records by a large margin, also known as ‘record shattering’ extremes,” explained <a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/august/meet-michael-grose">Michael Grose</a>, a senior research scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s government science agency, in an email.
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Record-breaking winter heat in the Southern Hemisphere.<br/><br/>Perth airport in Western Australia just recorded its hottest winter day on record (records go back 79 years here).<br/><br/>Cape Town Observatory, South Africa records its hottest August day on record with 32.9°C. Records… <a href="https://t.co/O7kK1yZCLI">pic.twitter.com/O7kK1yZCLI</a>
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— Scott Duncan (<span class="citation" data-cites="ScottDuncanWX">@ScottDuncanWX</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1697341307952267331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a>
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Winters tend to be milder in the Southern Hemisphere than in the North, and many of the factors that cranked up the heat across North America, Europe, and Asia in recent months are doing the same thing below the equator: <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23762529/atlantic-ocean-record-heat-wave-el-nino-hurricane-climate-change">Ocean temperature cycles</a> like <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23738846/el-nino-2023-weather-heat-wave-climate-change-disaster-flood-rain">El Niño</a> are in their warm phases, while greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels are accumulating in the atmosphere, warming the planet and changing its climate. So the hot winter across the Southern Hemisphere this year lined up with what scientists expected.
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“The seasonal forecast told us that we will have a warm winter time, so we were not surprised,” said <a href="https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new_scp/detalle.php?id=23011&datos_academicos=yes">Matilde Rusticucci</a>, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher at CONICET, Argentina’s national science research council. But “it wasn’t normal.”
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Now that spring is in the air, researchers expect that Australia, Africa, and South America will experience even more extreme weather — not just high temperatures, but more intense rainfall. As the Northern Hemisphere cools off, this year of record-breaking weather is only heating up in the south.
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The Southern Hemisphere’s unusually warm winter, explained
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First, a quick trip back to elementary school: <a href="https://www.weather.gov/fsd/season">Earth has seasons</a> because the axis it spins on as it revolves around the sun every 365 days is tilted, rather than completely vertical. That tilt means that for about half of the year, the Northern Hemisphere is pointed more toward the sun than the Southern Hemisphere, leading to longer days and more accumulated heat, thus creating summer. The process then reverses in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter, which is also summer in the south.
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But there are other factors at play when it comes to how the seasons manifest across the planet, namely the distribution of land and water.
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“The biggest difference between the Northern and Southern hemispheres as a whole is that the North contains more large continents with an Arctic Ocean, whereas the Southern features fewer large land areas, the Southern Ocean and then Antarctica,” Grose said.
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The oceans act like shock absorbers for weather and have a moderating effect on the climate. The Southern Hemisphere, with proportionately more ocean than land, tends to have a less drastic swing between seasons than places above the equator. That also means that winters in the south start from a warmer baseline than winters in the north.
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So countries like Brazil rarely get chilly weather in the winter. “It’s dry and mild,” said <a href="https://bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/7722/fabio-luiz-teixeira-goncalves/">Fábio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves</a>, a professor of geosciences at the University of São Paulo. Temperatures typically range between 53°F and 78°F, but they have been about 3.6°F higher on average since May around São Paulo. Those higher average temperatures fueled <a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/heat-wave-hits-brazil-in-the-middle-of-winter-628765">more extreme heat</a>.
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Extraordinary heat in South America is rewriting climatic books:<br/>Last 2 days <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paraguay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Paraguay</a> had stations with Tmin >30C<br/>Yesterday the min. temp. at Base Aerea Jara was 30.6C this is the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in September in the whole Southern Hemisphere. <a href="https://t.co/LLRX0KXjx0">pic.twitter.com/LLRX0KXjx0</a>
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— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (<span class="citation" data-cites="extremetemps">@extremetemps</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1698703658274169225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2023</a>
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Part of the reason is that the oceans that typically keep big temperature swings in check have been really hot over these past few months. The Pacific Ocean is experiencing a strong El Niño this year, so warm water is moving west to east across the equator. This has the effect of heating up the ocean’s surface while channeling evaporation and rainfall. The ripple effects of El Niño tend to heat up the whole planet. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23762529/atlantic-ocean-record-heat-wave-el-nino-hurricane-climate-change">Atlantic Ocean</a> also goes through temperature cycles and this year has reached record-high temperatures. The warm oceans have helped maintain warm air over the land in the Southern Hemisphere.
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The background factor here is climate change. Average temperatures are rising all over the world and all throughout the year, but in general, <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things">winters are warming faster than summers</a>. In fact, scientists say that higher temperatures in the cold seasons are a more robust indicator of humanity’s influence on the climate. “We can say with very high confidence that the recent warm seasons and weather contains a climate change signal,” Grose said.
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Warm winters have important consequences
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Hotter weather in the winter can have a lot of important consequences, even if temperatures don’t reach the triple-digit peaks of the summer. Plants, for instance, rely on temperature signals to time their life-cycles, and warmer winters throw this off. “We can say they are cuckoo, and not in a good way,” Gonçalves said. “It’s confusing.”
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Specifically, as warm seasons get longer and cool seasons get shorter, plants can germinate earlier and grow longer throughout the year. This is a boon for some species, but it can create a <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2142">misalignment for plants that need pollinators</a> like bees if they blossom too early. It also leads to longer and more intense pollen seasons, creating <a href="https://www.vox.com/22383707/allergies-2021-pollen-allergy-covid-19-climate-change-asthma">misery for allergy sufferers</a>. Warm winters can also change the timing of when plants bear fruit, which can affect the animals that depend on them for food.
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Cold temperatures also keep dangerous insects in check, and the higher temperatures this year have allowed for more mosquito-borne diseases to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65356495">spread in cities like Buenos Aires</a>. “We had a <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/7/18254825/zika-dengue-yellow-fever-mosquitos-climate-change">dengue</a> situation out of the season because dengue is more of a summertime problem here,” Rusticucci said.
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Warmer, drier winters also mean that there is less water recharging rivers and groundwater supplies, and thus less water available for agriculture the following season. Hard, dry soil doesn’t absorb water quickly, so when rain does occur, it’s more likely to run off and create flash floods. And if it doesn’t rain, dry soil can lead to dust storms.
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<img alt="Low water levels at the Paso Severino reservoir during a drought in Florida, Uruguay, on Friday, July 21, 2023." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/oLmdulEXdAjUuHjDpT4_iKfDtXk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24907300/GettyImages_1547377730.jpeg"/> <cite>Mauricio Zina/Bloomberg via Getty Images</cite>
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In Uruguay, drought this winter left the Paso Severino reservoir at 10 percent of its capacity.
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This is all converging on top of other ways that humans have changed the environment. Dense urban areas like São Paulo and Buenos Aires form heat islands that trap more heat than surrounding areas. And deforestation of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/12/12/20991590/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-climate-change-trees-rain-brazil-nut">critical rainforests like the Amazon</a> has disrupted vital rainfall patterns, worsening droughts, increasing regional warming, and creating conditions for wildfires.
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A warm winter in the Southern Hemisphere can have global impacts too. The reduced sea ice around Antarctica can alter ocean circulation patterns, changing the flow of vital nutrients needed to nourish fisheries. Sea ice also shields ice on land, so losing it can cause ice sheets to melt more. That in turn can contribute to sea level rise along shorelines around the world.
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Spring and summer will only get hotter down south
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Researchers expect that the factors that heated up the winter across the Southern Hemisphere will continue to play out and amplify over the next few months as the seasons change. “In fact we expect the biggest effect of the El Niño to emerge as it fully forms and then plays out over coming months and into next year,” Grose said. The <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/history/ln-2010-12/IOD-what.shtml">Indian Ocean Dipole</a>, another ocean cycle, is also moving toward its positive phase, which tends to reduce clouds and rainfall over Australia. “In Australia, the warm winter was a new record and the seasonal forecast is for a warm spring as well,” Grose added.
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In South America, the warmer season will also bring more precipitation, likely in torrential downpours. During past El Niño years, countries like <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87334/el-nino-fueled-rains-swamp-south-america">Paraguay and Uruguay</a> experienced deadly flooding, so the region is <a href="https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/how-is-south-america-preparing-for-the-effects-of-el-nino/">anticipating similar or worse conditions</a>. “We will probably have a hot summer and a rainy summer,” Gonçalves said.
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As a result, more weather records are poised to fall this year as the planet continues to experience what will likely be the hottest year ever recorded. Figuring out all the ways this will affect us is, as scientists like to say, an “active area of research.” We’re learning in real time what happens when the world reaches an unprecedented state. And with the climate changing, humanity will see more changes it has never witnessed before.
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An oil refinery in France is one example of the kind of infrastructure that would need to transition to clean energy or capture its carbon emissions to meet global climate goals. | AFP via Getty Images
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The first international climate change stocktake says trying is not enough.
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Just about every country in the world committed to keeping climate change in check in 2015. This week, the United Nations issued its first report card for this goal and found that the world is falling behind while time is running out.
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Under the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/12/12/9981020/paris-climate-deal">2015 Paris climate agreement</a>, countries agreed to pitch in what they could to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Their initial proposals were nowhere near enough, so the accord created a mechanism called the global stocktake to keep everyone accountable.
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Unlike other UN climate change reports that are meant to be informative and shy away from policy recommendations, the <a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/sb2023_09_adv.pdf">stocktake</a> is explicitly meant to spur countries to act. It’s a blunt progress assessment, and it lays out how much further countries must go in their emissions commitments the next time they come to the negotiating table at <a href="https://unfccc.int/cop28">COP28</a>, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates this December.
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“The Paris Agreement has driven near-universal climate action,” the report notes, but “much more is needed now on all fronts.”
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The task ahead is immense: According to the report, global emissions need to be slashed 43 percent by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, one of the main goalposts of the Paris agreement. But the world has already warmed about 1.2 degrees so far above preindustrial averages and is on track to pass the key threshold in the next few years. So when negotiators reconvene at the next climate summit, the stocktake will shape the discussion.
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“It carries a lot of weight,” said European Climate Foundation CEO<em> </em>Laurence Tubiana, who helped negotiate the Paris agreement. “The [stocktake] is looking backwards, but even more importantly setting the direction for the next phase of climate policymaking.”
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Among its recommendations, the report unapologetically calls for “phasing out all unabated fossil fuels” and for a “radical decarbonization of all sectors of the economy.”
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But in a world facing economic turmoil, energy shocks, and unrelenting opposition from the biggest polluters, there are open questions about whether leaders will heed the message at all, and what they’ll actually do about it.
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Coal, oil, and natural gas need to go
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The stocktake says in stark terms that there can be no new fossil fuel infrastructure in a world committed to keeping warming in check, including phasing out the existing coal industry before 2050.
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The exact language here is important. At <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23464353/cop27-egypt-outcome-climate-change-agreement-result-loss-damage">previous climate conferences</a>, countries fought over every word around fossil fuels, whether they should call for a “phase out” or a more watered-down phrase like “energy transition.” The latter leaves room for new fossil fuels without looking like governments are going back on their word.
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But the stocktake, which will inform the political process from here on out, echoes the findings of other global bodies that no new fossil fuel infrastructure should be built in a world aligned with 1.5 degrees.
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There’s some vagueness in what “unabated” means, however, and it’s likely to be a contentious topic at the next COP. The language leaves room, Tubiana explained, for remaining fossil fuels to rely on technology like carbon capture and storage. “By 2050 we’ll still have fossil fuels in the pipeline, the question is how much,” Tubiana said.
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One key barrier to transitioning from fossil fuels is the trillions of dollars in subsidies that governments pour into the industry year after year. A recent analysis from the International Monetary Fund found these subsidies have only grown; they surged to <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion#:~:text=Fossil%2Dfuel%20subsidies%20surged%20to,economic%20recovery%20from%20the%20pandemic.">$7 trillion last year</a>, $2 trillion more than in 2021.
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“The removal of fossil fuel subsidies is a key strategy for addressing structural economic barriers that can perpetuate inertia to change and prevent cost-effective low-carbon alternatives from being adopted at scale,” the report says.
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The stocktake also emphasizes the need to address emissions across the <em>entire </em>economy. Governments can’t overlook the role of sectors like industry, which contributes to 25 percent of global emissions, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/transportation">transportation</a>, which contributes 15 percent.
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Reducing these emissions requires targeting the demand and the supply in these sectors. For example, in transportation, regulations and incentives will help to phase out the internal combustion engine and push manufacturers to offer <a href="https://www.vox.com/electric-vehicles">electric vehicles</a> at a vast scale, but governments also need to think about reducing the need for private vehicles altogether through tactics like public transit. This extends to sectors like international <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22973218/container-shipping-industry-climate-change-emissions-maersk">shipping</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/2/23582152/nasa-x-plane-boeing-air-force-sustainable-aircraft">aviation</a>, both areas that are hard to decarbonize and have often been ignored in international climate negotiations.
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The stocktake is clear that the time for small, incremental change is over: We need to think in terms of systems-wide change, and a wide breadth of <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy">policies</a> to make deeper emissions cuts. “If you’re rowing and you can turn your oar faster and faster, but if it’s not really going deep enough, you won’t get anywhere,” said <a href="https://www.wri.org/profile/david-waskow">David Waskow</a>, director of the World Resources Institute’s International Climate Initiative. “We need to think in pace and speed, of course, but we also need depth.”
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Everyone is doing something, but everyone needs to do more
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The test now is whether countries will make the “rapid and deep” greenhouse gas cuts the report says are required, delivering more financing and even deeper emissions cuts in the next round of pledges in 2025. But countries are dealing with other challenges too, and that will also shape what they bring to the table at COP28.
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Shocks to food and <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy">energy prices</a>, along with inflation, may mean there is less money to invest in clean energy. Major fossil fuel companies are also trying to influence the discussions and maintain their market share.
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Meanwhile, many nations are still struggling to meet their own self-imposed pledges. The US, for example, has set a goal of slashing carbon pollution 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 while contributing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund. But it’s struggling to meet both goals, even after the passage of <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23281757/whats-in-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act">historic climate legislation</a> last year. Some countries have even seen their <a href="https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2022">fossil fuel emissions go up.</a>
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So mustering the political will to make these drastic changes is going to be an immense challenge. But at the same time, cleaner energy is more affordable than ever and the stocktake says a transition away from fossil fuels is within our grasp. In many parts of the world, wind and <a href="https://www.vox.com/solar-energy">solar power</a> are the cheapest sources of new energy, sometimes undercutting existing fossil fuel sources. “There are now sufficient cost-effective opportunities to address the 2030 emissions gap,” the report says. The challenges are entirely political hurdles.
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</p></li>
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<li><strong>Suits is an unlikely time capsule for a troubled decade</strong> -
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<img alt="Still photo from Suits showing Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter sitting alone in his office." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/LsrlCW5AYAQceP28zue1vGTexBQ=/0x0:2667x2000/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72628324/1172649609.0.jpg"/>
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Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in <em>Suits</em>. | Shane Mahood/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Suits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming.
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It’s 2023, and everyone is watching <em>Suits</em>. The question is, which <em>Suits</em> are they watching?
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In one corner, we have <em>Suits</em>, seasons one through four, the absurdist morality play. The concept: a high-powered Manhattan law firm and the cutthroat corporate lawyers who do their clients’ bidding. The title: A reference to the sleazy characters, the glitzy aesthetic, and the fact that, unlike most legal dramas, <em>Suits</em> rarely ends up in a courtroom.
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The catch: One of these hard-charging lawyers, bushy-tailed eager beaver Mike Ross, apprentice to the dashing artful dodger Harvey Specter, isn’t actually an attorney at all.
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In the other corner, we have <em>Suits</em>, seasons five through eight (just ignore season nine and the short-lived one-season spinoff, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/08/suits-spinoff-pearson-peacock-meghan-markle-legal-drama-netflix-hit-1235533464/"><em>Pearson</em></a>, neither of which is included on Netflix where this culture-wide rewatch is taking place): in which the show becomes self-aware, jettisons the moral antipathy of previous seasons, and puts itself on trial.
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<em>Suits</em> never got its cultural due during the nine seasons it aired on the USA network. Until 2023, its main claim to fame was boosting the career of one-time princess <a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/2021/3/9/22321831/oprah-meghan-markle-prince-harry-interview-royal-family">Meghan Markle</a>. Yet it currently stands poised to become Netflix’s biggest streaming hit of all time, after <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daledonoghue8/video/7221152561250749742">a viral TikTok video</a> that made the rounds in May sparked renewed interest in the show — which has since been setting <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/suits-streaming-record-may-never-be-beaten-2284103/">streaming records so wild</a> they sound like they’re completely made up.
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The TikTok clip showcases the key scene of the entire show: The moment Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Mike (Patrick J. Adams) meet, and Harvey falls in love at first recitation with Mike, his polymath brain, and his photographic memory. Although Mike is a dropout bike messenger who’s literally in the middle of running a drug deal when they meet, Harvey hires him on the spot to work for his law firm, Pearson. The two of them construct an elaborate lie to create the illusion that Mike graduated from Harvard Law. Harvey’s drive to keep Mike by his side against all odds fuels the plot for most of the show’s eight-year run.
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<em>Suits</em> may be the unexpected hit show of 2023, but it premiered in 2011, in a world that felt profoundly different from the one it finished with, in 2019. The result is an odd little time capsule. Over the course of the show, the world changed rapidly, and <em>Suits</em> responded to and evolved with that change — so much so that we can follow the trajectory of our own cultural evolution within its seasons. <em>Suits</em> was born out of an era when nihilistic absurdism dominated TV across a broad range of shows, from <em>Always Sunny</em> to <em>Scandal</em>. The oblivious ethos of that early-season <em>Suits</em> may be key to its renewed popularity: Philosophically, it’s escapist comfort food mixed with geeky pop culture refs and far too much reverence for Aaron Sorkin.
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Yet it’s the latter era of the show that’s really fascinating. <em>Suits</em> was born out of a society that memed <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21277256/for-now-avenue-q-everyones-little-bit-racist-south-park-george-bush-donald-trump-book-of-mormon">performative uncaring</a>, and it was all too fun and silly to take seriously — until it wasn’t. As it progressed, <em>Suits</em> absorbed the ripples of political and cultural unease that characterized the ’10s. In the show’s highest-rated episode (per IMDb votes), “Faith,” Mike’s childhood priest tells him that he might think of “God” as “consequences.” <em>Suits</em>’ gods are capricious, but when they demand tithes, a bitch better pay up.
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<em>Suits</em>’ first half: A slick legal buddy drama that becomes an epistemic looking-glass
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt="Two men in suits and coats walk down a New York street." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WRY5LG4FDf-uxnDkxzOlf8nJO5M=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24907156/819814980.jpg"/> <cite>Shane Mahood/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images</cite>
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Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross and Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in <em>Suits</em>.
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<em>Suits</em>’ first half follows a law firm full of clearly drawn office character tropes: no-nonsense boss Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres), ultimate secretary Donna (Sarah Rafferty), volatile wannabe partner Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), and long-suffering paralegal turned ultimate girlfriend Rachel (Markle). They all have one thing in common: Their lives revolve around the firm, eventually known as Pearson Specter Litt, or PSL.
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That means that whether they know it or not, their lives revolve around keeping Mike’s secret. Despite the flimsiness of the premise and the complete lack of logic about, well, anything, the first half of <em>Suits</em> fully milks the tension between Mike’s go-getter enthusiasm for the law and the fact that he’s flagrantly breaking it.
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Between this (silly) high-stakes drama, <em>Suits</em>’ procedural formula deals in high-powered pettiness. Each episode sees the firm defending a shady corporation against another shady corporation, going back and forth over a series of legal maneuverings that allow them to trade quips and drop highly improbable interpretations of the law. Our antiheroes usually finagle their way into some kind of moral high ground, but not without stretching their credibility and our credulity. This <em>Suits</em> is a frothy treat in the pantheon of self-serious legal dramas. And thanks to the increasingly outlandish things Harvey and Mike do to get away with Mike’s crime, like hacking the Harvard database and printing a fake Harvard degree, we never have to take any of it too seriously.
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Except then we do!
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Season four begins a gradual tonal shift characterized by forewarnings of disaster for the firm, as well as increased dysfunctionality among the ensemble. The show’s blatantly antisemitic early-season portrayal of Louis Litt actually gets worse for a while because seasons four and five double down on all of his worst traits in the name of drama. Those traits are all heinous stereotypes: Despite Rick Hoffman’s best efforts at humanizing Louis, he’s mean-tempered, buffoonish, weak, disloyal, effeminate, and selfish above all else. The show presents him as spiteful and vindictive, a cheap, greedy, money-hoarding backstabber who’s obsessed with power. At one point, he plays the role of Shylock, as if the theme couldn’t get more explicit. Any time the screws are put to him, Louis turns volatile and vengeful. It’s a tired, troubling routine, and unfortunately, even after the show writers finally realize what they’ve done and rapidly rehabilitate his character in later seasons, the subtext that he could be the firm’s weak link — more of an existential threat even than Mike who’s <em>literally not a lawyer!</em>— never fully goes away.
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Seasons five and six: The game changes
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In season five, which aired in 2015–2016, the tonal change becomes even more pronounced: Harvey, who’s hitherto prided himself on his weaponized superficiality, starts going to therapy to deal with his many abandonment issues. And someone finally prosecutes Mike for fraud. This development forces <em>Suits</em> into a much darker iteration of its implied “ethics schmethics!” worldview. By the time Mike is finally facing trial in the latter half of season five, he and Harvey have gone from season one lawyers (and “lawyers”) who proudly draw their moral lines and refuse to cross them to people willing to commit blackmail, forgery, perjury, and beyond. “Do whatever you have to do,” Harvey tells Mike as they get more and more desperate to avoid prison. “Just don’t get caught.”
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However, any time Mike and Harvey use their typical tactics — strong-arming, bargaining, one-upmanship — to shut down the case, opposing prosecuting attorney Gibbs (Leslie Hope) surmounts them by relying on the unshakeable truth: Mike isn’t a lawyer. Mike isn’t a lawyer! Yet one by one, all the other players at Pearson Specter line up behind him, committing to performing the lie that he is. The world of that lie keeps expanding; by the time Mike is finally exposed, no fewer than 13 recurring cast members know he never went to Harvard and are casually walking around covering for him.
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<em>Suits</em> thus becomes an apt and revealing, if entirely unwitting, metaphor for <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/16/20964281/impeachment-hearings-trump-america-epistemic-crisis">the broader epistemic crisis</a> that’s come to define much of the modern age, in which people who are otherwise rational find themselves moving in an entirely different version of reality, from climate change denialism to Covid skepticism to the factual outcome of elections. Just as many of Trump’s supporters <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13659634/alt-right-trolling">started out</a> espousing extremist nonsense for laughs yet wound up believing their own rhetoric, Mike and Harvey, who get together initially almost as a troll, ultimately come to believe their own reality distortion.
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Mike becomes so convinced that he’s an actual lawyer that he tries to take on a new case while he is on trial for pretending to be a lawyer. Every time he careens into the fact that no one will testify to knowing him at Harvard because no one knew him because he never went to Harvard, he reacts with a dazed headshake, as though he can’t quite believe they’re inconveniencing him by refusing to help him bend the truth. It’s difficult to watch him spend the back half of season five frantically trying and failing to coerce, beg, extort, and bribe witnesses to help him without being reminded of Trump asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “<a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/2023/8/7/23823113/trump-investigations-georgia-election-interference-case-live-updates">find 11,780 votes</a>.”
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For all the writers clearly want us to root for Harvey and Mike to agree that Mike is, as one client’s mother insists, “innocent in [his] heart,” it’s harder for a post-Trump audience to do that than it would be for the sweet summer children of the Obama era. Harvey and Mike might deserve mercy after their sins have been acknowledged and confessed. But innocent they are not — and <em>Suits</em>, for its first six seasons, isn’t interested in rehabilitating them. It only takes them a few episodes after Harvey finally engineers an early prison release for Mike in season six before the two of them are back to doing highly unethical things to get what they want.
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<em>Suits</em> tries to create a world where the law isn’t reality because it can always be manipulated for the right price. The show wants us to believe that since everyone in this universe is cutthroat and amoral by default, these guys are heroic for at least trying to do the right thing some of the time — except when they don’t. In other words, it’s vibes, not truth, that really matter.
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Which makes its entire abrupt turnaround in season seven such an interesting reveal — not for what it says about <em>Suits </em>but<em> </em>what it says about the rest of us.
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Season seven of <em>Suits</em> tries to right its wrongs
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Throughout <em>Suits</em>’ first six seasons, its characters are essentially caricatures whose relationships with themselves and each other are mainly shallow and undeveloped. The show’s female characters suffer the most from this underwritten tendency, particularly Gina Torres’ Jessica, who never really gets to be more than a plot device. (Torres captained a spinoff, <em>Pearson</em>, launched from <em>Suits</em>’ seventh-season finale, but it only lasted a single season, and it’s hard not to wonder if that was partly because the writers had so little to build on.) And though the show lives and dies with the lighthearted chemistry between Mike and Harvey, not even Gabriel Macht’s deep commitment to sending flirtatious smiles in Adams’s direction can fully convince us that Mike deserves to be where he’s at.
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Season seven’s writers seem to have realized all of this abruptly. (It’s probably no coincidence it was the first full season to follow the 2016 election.) Once it has straightened out the giant plot wrinkle it started with, the show goes full-throttle redemption arc, working overtime to deepen its characters and repair all of its negatives at once. Newly born again and (somehow) (nonsensically) admitted to the bar for real-real, Mike begins tackling large-scale pro bono cases with a social justice edge. Louis, we learn, has actually been in therapy all along; the show fast-tracks him through a personal growth arc that sees him almost instantly learning to put other people before himself. Donna, whose whole character til now has been “being loyal to Harvey,” suddenly gets dreams and lines like, “I think I regret putting Harvey over myself.” Season seven can’t stop telling you how feminist it is: “A man can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting a strong-willed woman,” Rachel’s father says at one point.
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When, in the seventh-season finale, Mike finally tells Harvey, “This is who I am, it’s who I’ve always been” — meaning that he’s an ethical do-good lawyer who only wants to take pro-bono work for the betterment of humanity — Harvey is too good to remind him what a giant retcon this is, for both him and for <em>Suits</em>.
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It helps that the show doesn’t have to keep Mike on the straight and narrow for long: Instead, it gives Mike and Rachel a season seven finale send-off, providing them both with a chance to sail into the sunset as pro-bono lawyers. (Rachel’s fictional wedding aired in April 2018, just three weeks before Markle’s actual fairy tale wedding.) That send-off also doubles as another reset: As season eight rolls around, the remaining crew is right back to corporate schemes and stratagems, now headed up by Rachel’s dad (Wendell Pierce), who manages to be both fun and terrifying as the new top brass. Still, <em>Suits</em>, now self-aware, can never completely retreat into its former malaise of substituting movie quotes and pop culture cred for human connection and empathy.
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By the show’s end, it’s all grown up; and if we all liked it a little better when it was younger, obnoxious, and oblivious — well, perhaps we all liked ourselves a little better in 2011, too.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Not facing Pakistani bowlers enough makes difference at big events: Shubman Gill</strong> - India get to play Pakistan only during Asia Cup or at the ICC events</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Asia Cup 2023 | India seeks answer to Rahul-Kishan riddle ahead of high-voltage Pakistan clash</strong> - Pakistan has an edge on paper in this department, but India will believe that they have the ammunition to strike back in kind.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>As an all-rounder, I carry double or triple workload compared to specialists: Hardik Pandya</strong> - The ODI vice-captain explained that he reads the match situation and then takes a call on whether to bowl his full quota of 10 overs or not</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bopanna-Ebden lose U.S. Open men’s doubles final to Ram-Salisbury</strong> - Playing only his second men’s doubles final at a Major tournament, Bopanna and his Australian teammate lost the title clash 6-2 3-6 4-6</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SiRST inks MoU with Edappal-based IDTR for road safety research</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>BSF jawan posted near LoC is reported missing in Poonch</strong> - Search operation is underway but he had not been located till Saturday afternoon</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mallikarjun Kharge sees BJP’s pushing for ‘Bharat’ as afterthought of INDIA coalition</strong> - Kharge pointed to the Constitution of India which called the country as India as well as ‘Bharat’ and asserted that both meant the same land.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>G-20 adopts New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration in significant victory for India</strong> - The announcement about the consensus on the declaration and its subsequent adoption came hours after India circulated a new text to the G-20 countries to describe the Ukraine conflict</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Greek floods: PM Mitsotakis warns of very unequal battle with nature</strong> - Rescuers try to reach hundreds of people trapped by floods in Greece where 10 people have died.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation</strong> - A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accuses him of “committing evil”.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine condemns ‘sham’ elections in Russian-occupied regions</strong> - Many taking part in early polling have been asked to vote in the presence of armed Russian soldiers.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Thodex cryptocurrency boss jailed for 11,196 years in Turkey for fraud</strong> - Faruk Fatih Ozer was found guilty of defrauding millions of dollars from investors in his collapsed Thodex platform.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Luis Rubiales: Spanish prosecutor files complaint with high court</strong> - A prosecutor files a complaint with Spain’s high court against suspended football federation president Luis Rubiales for sexual assault.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges</strong> - “Some customers are concerned about the risk of IP infringement claims,” says Microsoft. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966332">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods</strong> - The hot pepper linked to teen’s death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966876">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The MonsterVerse comes to Apple TV+ with Monarch: Legacy of Monsters teaser</strong> - “If you come with me, you’ll know everything, I promise.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966615">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions</strong> - X decried law’s “draconian financial penalties” up to $15K per violation per day. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966853">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”</strong> - Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC’s “predetermined decision.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966820">link</a></p></li>
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One winter morning during breakfast a husband and wife in Northern Minnesota were listening to the radio.
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They heard the announcer say, “We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows can get through.”
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So the good wife went out and moved her car.
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A week later while they are eating breakfast again, the radio announcer said, “We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street so the snowplows can get through.”
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The good wife went out and moved her car again.
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The next week they were again having breakfast, when the radio announcer said, “We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park…” Then the electric power went out.
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The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said, “Honey, I don’t know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the snowplows can get through?”
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With the love and understanding in his voice that all men who are married to blondes exhibit, the husband replied,
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"Why don’t you just leave it in the garage this time?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tricky5553"> /u/tricky5553 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dvtwv/blonde_wife/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dvtwv/blonde_wife/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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She met with the mortician who asked her how she wants the body dressed.
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“He always looked so good in blue. I want him to be buried in a blue suit.”
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This posed a problem as he had been delivered to the funeral parlour in the black suit he was wearing when he died. However, the wife was adamant.
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“I don’t care what it costs!” she said, handing the mortician a blank cheque. “Do whatever it takes.”
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The mortician agrees and the next day called the widow back. When she arrived, the mortician revealed her husband in very sharp blue suit. The wife is very pleased.
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“Thank you so much, this is perfect. Whatever it cost, it was worth it.”
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The mortician handed her back the blank cheque.
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“There is no charge, madam,” he said.
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“I don’t understand,” the widow said. “How did you manage this for free?”
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“Well, shortly after you left yesterday, another gentleman was delivered. He was similar in size and build to your husband and he was wearing a blue suit. I asked his next of kin if they would object to him being buried in a black suit instead of the blue one, and they said they didn’t care.”
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“So you undressed them, and swapped the suits?” the widow said. “That must have been difficult.”
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“Oh no,” said the mortician. “I just swapped the heads.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/brother_p"> /u/brother_p </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dmr6x/a_young_widow_goes_to_the_funeral_parlour_to_plan/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dmr6x/a_young_widow_goes_to_the_funeral_parlour_to_plan/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a flight.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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They start eyeing each other, and both realize they want to do the same thing.
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He slips a condom out of his pocket, and she looks delighted.
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“Rear toilet?” He suggests. “Five minutes”.
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She agrees and goes off.
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He waits for five minutes, then goes and slips in there with her.
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“Right, get that condom on”, she says.
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Soon, they are both sighing with pleasure.
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But a sharp-eyed stewardess noticed them, and realized what they were up to,
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So, she humiliates them by making an announcement over the PA system. "To the lady and gentleman in the rear toilet, we know what you are doing.
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And it is expressly forbidden by airline regulations. Now, please put those cigarettes out and take the condom off the smoke detector."
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And what were you thinking?
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A priest opens his confessional panel to a young boy.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The boy says, “Forgive me Father for I have sinned.” The priest asked, “What have you done, my son?” He replies, “I threw pickles into the well.” The priest seems a little confused but says, “Very well. Say three Hail Marys and you will be forgiven.”
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Four more boys follow and say the same thing, the priest wondering eventually if he’s being pranked. Finally, a young boy looking very upset steps into the confessional.
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“Let me guess,” says the priest, “You threw pickles into the well?”
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The boy sniffs and said, “No Father, I AM pickles!”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ImpossiblePut6387"> /u/ImpossiblePut6387 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dzxw9/a_priest_opens_his_confessional_panel_to_a_young/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dzxw9/a_priest_opens_his_confessional_panel_to_a_young/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is finding out your spouse sucked hundreds of dicks before getting married really such a big deal?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Or is my wife overreacting?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NopeNopeNope2020"> /u/NopeNopeNope2020 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dej23/is_finding_out_your_spouse_sucked_hundreds_of/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/16dej23/is_finding_out_your_spouse_sucked_hundreds_of/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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