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The UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the forthcoming UN climate conference in Dubai, is “cautiously optimistic” that the pivotal talks will be successful, he told AFP in an interview on Saturday. Jaber, CEO of Emirati oil giant Adnoc, said he would hold “everyone” accountable for keeping within reach the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting the rise in the Earth’s average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Excerpts from the interview: Q: COP28 is due to start in Dubai in five days’ time. How far are we from reaching a consensus? A: I…
Seventy people have died in widespread flooding in Kenya that has also driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, President William Ruto said on Saturday, describing it as an “emergency situation”. Kenya and neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that are only just emerging from the worst drought in four decades, are now experiencing devastating flooding caused by rains linked to the El Nino weather pattern. Ruto said the cabinet would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss recommendations on how to manage the crisis. “Unfortunately, we have lost 70 people across Kenya because of these rains and…
England batter Joe Root has opted out of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, announced his franchise Rajasthan Royals on Saturday. “England batter Joe Root will not be taking any further participation in the IPL, it was confirmed on Saturday,” said a statement from the team. Root, one of the most decorated international cricketers for England, made his foray into the IPL set up last season, when the Royals picked him at the 2023 mini-auction. He made his IPL debut in the 2023 edition, playing 3 matches for the franchise. Root scored 10 in only one inning he played. Kumar Sangakkara,…
If you bought a Nintendo Switch as part of the recent Black Friday sales, then you’re in luck because there’s a huge sale on Nintendo Switch games going on at Best Buy right now. It’s 180 games, so pretty much anything you could want in terms of genre is in there, including Super Smash Bros and Pokémon Legends: Arceus; it’s chock-full of games that you can grab for cheap right now. We’ve done our best to collect our favorite picks below, but if you’d like to check out everything that is on sale, click on the button below. What you…
The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority has asked a catering service to shut down. The authority has issued an administrative closure decision against the ‘Royal Catering Services’ facility in Abu Dhabi, Al Dhafra – Ghayathi. The food facility held the commercial license number CN-1049959 and violated Law No. (2) of 2008 regarding food in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The authority informed residents of the closure through a post on Instagram. The authority said that the decision was taken after some confirmed cases of E. Coli poisoning. Some people had reportedly had a white bean salad with meat…
At least 150 people, including women and children, were abducted with one person killed in a coordinated attack by gunmen on four villages in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, residents said on Saturday. Kidnapping for ransom has become rife in northwestern Nigeria in recent years where armed gangs, often referred to locally as bandits, have targeted villages, schools, and travellers, demanding millions of naira in ransom and making it unsafe to travel by road or to farm in some areas. The Zamfara police spokesperson did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the attack, which took place late on…
One of the amazing abilities of the James Webb Space Telescope is not just detecting the presence of far-off planets, but also being able to peer into their atmospheres to see what they are composed of. With previous telescopes, this was extremely difficult to do because they lacked the powerful instruments needed for this kind of analysis, but scientists using Webb recently announced they had made a rare detection of methane in an exoplanet atmosphere. Scientists studied the planet WASP-80 b using Webb’s NIRCam instrument, which is best known as a camera but also has a slitless spectroscopy mode which…
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has extended the working hours of the Dubai Metro for the Dubai Run, which is set to take place on Sunday, November 26. The Dubai Metro’s working hours will be from 3am to 12 midnight on Sunday, RTA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. Participants taking part in the run can reach the World Trade Centre Metro Station for the 5km race and the Emirates Towers Metro Station for the 10km race, it said. The Dubai stretch of the UAE’s busiest highway will transform into the world’s largest running track…
An Indian-origin student in Australia is in a medically induced coma after he was assaulted and a suspect has been taken into custody and charged with criminal assault, according to a media report. The student, who has not been identified, is in his 20s. He is pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Tasmania. The incident took place on November 5 at a precinct in Tasmania and the victim had ‘extra jural bleeding’ that caused his brain to shift, Sydney-based Special Broadcasting Service reported. According to reports, his right lung collapsed and he had to undergo brain surgery, a…
Thanksgiving is over. The turkey has been eaten, those pumpkin pies are long gone, and now there’s a seemingly endless parade of football games, Black Friday deals that are just out of reach, and the scary prospect of traveling back home at one of the most crowded times of the year. One positive aspect of this holiday season is that it gives you more time to watch all those movies that are sitting in your Netflix queue. Digital Trends has rounded up the 10 best movies (plus one additional one for the kids) streaming on Netflix right now. The list…