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This piece of news reported the current stuation in Gaza. The two sides are agreeing on a draft ceasefire, and both sides agree that the prisoners should be released, but there are some differences of opinion on some other details,but there's still the central question of when the war should end. It quotes from Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel and the UN presisdent's speeches to show the objective political stance of BBC, and also brings a real desciptive of the war in Gaza.

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'Sustainable calm' proposal splits Israel and Hamas

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Israel says it has four issues with the draft ceasefire deal - including an end to war.

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Thie opinion cartoon by Martin Rowson express his opinion towards the attitude of politicians when facing climate crisis. There were record-breaking hot months are stacking up, but the british politicians don't pay attention on it. It is clearly presented in the cartoon by symbolism, the sun at the background represent the hot month,and the sunlight look like fire symbolize the climate crisis. Instead of caring about what's happening in the sun, the politicians on the beach are tying each other down. The tying together symbolizes their ignorance of record-breaking hot months. Overall, Martin Rowson criticize the british politicians by using symbolism.

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Martin Rowson on politicians tying themselves in knots while the climate crisis intensifies - cartoon

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Record-breaking hot months are stacking up. Meanwhile, British politicians continue to tie each other, and themselves, in knots

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This piece of news reported about the historic and old stock exchange building has been engulfed by fire in Denmark. It attract readers by images of burning building and the photoes of iconic dragon spire on fire. It also quoted from the Culture minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt, statues that the 400-years cultural heritage was destroied. This may be appeal to people who are interested in historic buildings.

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Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames

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There was shock as the 17th Century building's spire collapsed in the fire.

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This news introduced vegetables and fruits from different regions around the world. Using maps and diagrams, the author told the place of origin of many vegetables and fruits and how they were brought into our lives. For instance, the potato grew in South America and was brought to Europe by the Spaniards. It is clear that the news was written by Atlas Obscura with a humorous style of language. For the title, this piece of news used an interesting title" Why Jesus never ate a banana" as a stunt to attract readers. At the beginning of the news story, the author didn't answer this question but made a joke about the famous stories of what Jesus did in the Bible. Overall, Atlas Obscura's style was quite different from BBC and The Guardian, It doesn't use academic language.

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About 69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.

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This news story is mainly about the latest election result of Tukish local elections. It is the sucess of main opposition party which has claimed big victory in 2 main cities(stanbul and Ankara). It is clear to see the perspectives of BBC by its quotation from President Erdogan and chairman of the CHP. The BBC objectively interviews and quotes from two perspectives to describe the results of the elections in Turkey. According to the TRT World, https://www.trtworld.com/turkiye/turkiyes-democratic-strength-evident-in-local-election-outcome-17597680

TRT World is quite different from BBC, it quotes from a Turkish analyst which shows the strong support for AK.

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Turkish local elections: Opposition stuns Erdogan with historic victory

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President Erdogan fails to regain Turkey's big cities that he lost five years ago.

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Ramin Wu was borned in Suzhou, Jiangsu on November 18th. She grew up in Suzhou and enjoyed her childhood with her grandparents. With great passion of playing badminton. frisbee, reading and visiting museums, Ramin established her dream of being a history researcher who works in a museum in the future. She hopes to enjoy her high school life and achieve great academic progress in UWC CSC.

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This peice of news reported an incident that 3 charred bodies were found in a burned car in Tumakuru distric. The police indicates that they already have some clues and speculate that their deaths have something to do with the treasure hunt. It's possible that the three victims were killed somewhere else and brought here to be burned. Overall, this story was told within a neutral way,by using the words like "seem" "might" and "police sources". Author clearly describes the crime and states the potential reasons for the case with a objective way.

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Three persons who were found burnt in a car in Tumakuru district hailed from Belthangadi Taluk of Mangaluru and they might have been duped on the pretext of 'treasure', police said on Saturday.

Tumakuru Superintendent of Police Ashok K V said the investigation team has got vital clues and soon it will bust the gang behind it.

The bodies were found in a burnt car on a lake bed in Kuchangi village on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Tumakuru on Friday.

"The victims were from Belthangady Taluk in Mangaluru district in Karnataka. We have got some leads in this case and soon we will crack it," the SP told PTI.

The culprits seem to have duped the trio on the pretext of selling 'treasure', he added.

The forensic report suggests that they might have been killed elsewhere and their bodies were brought to Tumakuru and burnt.

Other police sources said the accused lured the trio so that they wanted to dispose of the gold ornaments found during a treasure hunt at a throwaway price.

The victims relied on them and reached the place with money. Later, the culprits murdered them, looted their money and burnt their bodies along with the vehicle, they added.

According to the sources, at least six people were involved in the crime.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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3 Charred Bodies Found Inside Karnataka Car, Cops Blame "Treasure Hunt"

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Three persons who were found burnt in a car in Tumakuru district hailed from Belthangadi Taluk of Mangaluru and they might have been duped on the pretext of 'treasure', police said on Saturday.

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Ukrainian secret police targets Christian journalists

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This piece of news gives an interesting Russian perspective to descirbles and comments an event that Ukrian secret police attacked UOJ Journalists(Union of Orthodox Journalists). The news claims that Ukraine has been targeting the USJ organisation and for no reason at all, and useing a lot of words to justify it such as “launched a crusade” “prepared a bill to ban”. Overall, this news uses some leading words to narrate an event, but seems to be missing the Ukrainian perspective.

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The SBU has targeted Orthodox journalists reporting on the country's church crackdown

Several employees of the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ) have been subjected to raids by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the group said on Tuesday.

The UOJ has reported on the ongoing persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) by Kiev, which favors the government-backed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

"UOJ employees were approached by the SBU agents, who seized their computer equipment and phones," the group said on its Telegram channel, adding that no one had been charged with any offenses.

SBU agents have also visited participants in prayer vigils, the UOJ added. The union could not comment any further, but said it would offer more information as it becomes available.

The SBU has yet to comment on the raids. It has previously tried to have the UOJ's website blocked inside Ukraine.

President Vladimir Zelensky's government launched a crusade against the UOC last year, denouncing the canonical church as an "agent of Moscow." Russia has protested against the crackdown as a violation of human rights, to little avail.

Last week, the SBU arrested a priest in the Cherkasy diocese and charged him with making "anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian statements." Archpriest Boris Brodovsky was accused of spreading "fake news" and religious discrimination, for criticizing the OCU seizures of UOC churches.

For months, multiple Ukrainian regions have been seizing UOC property and handing it over to the OCU on a variety of pretexts. The Ukrainian parliament has prepared a bill to ban the UOC, but has yet to vote on it. Critics have warned that such a move would endanger Kiev's ambition to join the EU.

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This article is mainly about 2 Chinese pass some scientific research results and information to China. It also reported the awkward situation and relationship between Chinese and Canadian universities. Most of the information on the news is similar whether in Chinese or English. The main difference between the two languages is that Chinese may be more emotionally charged.

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2 Scientists in Canada Passed On Secrets to China, Investigations Find

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After a prolonged parliamentary debate, details about two microbiology researchers who were found to have shared secrets with China have been released.

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In this way, it is easy for us to find that many travel magazines were collected by the PressReader because they are cheap and some of them even are free. The reason why is that there are quite many ads in travel magazines. I read the World Travel Magazine published on 11 Feb 2020.

The writer described the exotic and beautiful views in Santorini， a mostly positive version of it. There's no mention of overcrowding of tourists or the poor public transport. Through the article, the author advertised for over 10 restaurants and hotels, such as Ovac Restaurant and Katiges Garden Hotel. If I want to know about Santorini, I may not choose this magazine as the first choice.

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Digital newsstand featuring 7000+ of the world’s most popular newspapers & magazines. Enjoy unlimited reading on up to 5 devices with 7-day free trial.

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The article, as its title suggests, documents the collapse of the Twin Towers, with many portraits and landscapes taken by the photographer. Among the photos is one of a couple who had a terrifying escape from the Twin Towers, and this photographer later took their wedding photos as well. These 2 photos show the the change of time, and the contrast between happiness and awfulness. To be honet, out of the video or film, photos are the best way to record humans' emotion and the event.

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By Charlotte Andrews BBC News

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Centre

A photographer has described how the Twin Towers collapsed before his eyes.

Phil Penman from Briantspuddle, Dorset, captured more than 500 photos of the catastrophic event in New York on 11 September 2001.

The attack saw Islamic Extremists al-Qaeda seize US passenger jets and crash them into the World Trade Centre, killing thousands of people.

Marking the 22nd anniversary of 9/11, Mr Penman said he remembered seeing the tragedy unfold through his camera lens.

In his career, Mr Penman has snapped photos of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Bill Gates

Mr Penman had recently moved from Los Angeles to New York City to work as a photographer.

On that particular Tuesday, he was expecting to have a day off - until his phone rang.

"It was just a voice message saying 'Phil, I realise it's your day off but you might want to go and check this out'," he said.

The photographer captured Joanne Capestro fleeing the North Tower, covered in ash

Relatively new to the streets of New York, Mr Penman documented the city's tragedy, taking around 500 photos.

Recounting the event, he said: "So I'm looking up, taking pictures of the building and all of a sudden the building just starts coming down, whilst you're looking through the lens."

"It was getting closer and closer in the lens and some fireman ran past me, grabbed me and said 'run'."

One of the photos Mr Penman took was of Joanne Capestro, who had just escaped the North Tower.

When the pair were later introduced, Mr Penman said she broke down.

"She told me 'you don't know how much your picture helped me because a lot of people never believed me'."

Mr Penman took Ms Capestro's wedding pictures, 17 years on from the attack

In 2018, Ms Capestro contacted the photographer and asked him to take her wedding photos.

"The way that she describes it is that I photographed her on the best day of her life, and the worst day of her life," he said.

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This photoessay narrates with the snowy scenes around the UK. The photographs all revolve around the theme of snow, showing snowy landscapes in different parts of the UK. There are snow-covered tree branches and houses, and equally a snowy land.We can see a lot of buildings with local characteristics were also captured by the filmmaker. The photographer used colour and light to form her/his pictures,and most of pictures are landscape. Out of the video or film, these photos are the best recorders and exponents of snowy Britain!

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This week has been the coldest snap of winter so far with parts of Scotland seeing up to 15cm of snow.

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These are some of the POWERFUL NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS selected by the BBC this week. These photos are from different news sources and have different themes such as entertainment, politics and the environment.Photographers mostly use colour as a technique to take photos and most of the photos are portraits and landscapes. The caption text at the bottom of the photo is short, but the meaning is very clear. The short text and the photographs work together to give the reader a clear picture of what is happening. Although the text is rather short and does not give the reader the specifics, it does not affect the reader's understanding of these photos and because they are the photos that illustrate the news.

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

Succession, Beef and The Bear were the big winners at the Emmy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles. Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin won acting prizes for Succession, while the show also won best drama series.

Worshippers across Russia and Eastern Europe braved icy waters for Epiphany, one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox Christian calendar.

Winds from the Arctic brought cold weather to the UK. Here, snow falls on the Beatles Statue at Pier Head, Liverpool.

Tens of thousands of people turned out to watch King Frederik X succeed his mother Queen Margrethe, the first Danish monarch to voluntarily abdicate in more than 800 years. A kiss between King Frederik and his wife, the Australian-born Queen Consort Mary, was met with whoops and cheers from the crowd.

Hundreds of couples gathered in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to take part in a traditional mass wedding ceremony called Yeshih Gabicha, the first such event in a decade. Dressed in traditional white clothes, the couples sang and danced in the streets outside the wedding venue before the ceremony began.

Former US President Donald Trump won the first contest in the race to be the Republicans' presidential nominee, by a landslide. Neither of Mr Trump's main rivals in Iowa, Nikki Haley nor Ron DeSantis, emerged as a lead challenger.

A volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland erupted, spilling molten rock into the town of Grindavik. Addressing the nation, President Gudni Johannesson urged people to "stand together and have compassion for those who cannot be in their homes".

A Christie's art handler holds up Mark Knopfler's Red Schecter Telecaster guitar. The Dire Straits guitarist is auctioning more than 120 of his guitars and amps, with 25% of the proceeds going to charity.

A kite surfer loses control of his board, on a sunny day at Bloubergstrand beach in Cape Town, South Africa.

Kenya's wildlife agency is relocating 21 rare and endangered black rhinos from their sanctuaries, after a rapid increase in their population caused overcrowding. The exercise is seen as a success in Kenya's efforts to conserve black rhinos, which were on the brink of extinction just three decades ago.

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A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days.

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This picture mainly focus on a little lovely baby on a sofa. Meanwhile, the photographer vividly captured this baby crying. Techniques used by photographer is framing, she make the baby be the main subject of the picture. She also used action, showing the dynamics of a crying baby. Finally, it is obvious that this photograph is a PORTRAIT.

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This photo depicts the daily life of people in Africa, this photo is about the street scene, motorbikes, trucks and dust are on the road. This picture used techeniques and ways to tell story, such as landscape, action,silhouette and light. The filmmaker created a special everyday atmosphere and also captured the action of a running motorbike! For silhouette part, this photo shows only the outline of the motorbike rider. And fimmaker used backlight to form her picture.

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This news happened recently reported the eathquake happened in central Japan. The laguage Janpan's times used is clear and objective. In this stroy, the writer used number to describe the severity of earthquake, such as "The magnitude 7.6 quake" . Overall, this piece of news reported the eathquake vividly without any bias.

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The fault that triggered a major earthquake in central Japan on New Year's Day may stretch for around 150 kilometers under the Noto Peninsula and associated seismic activity is likely to continue for the time being, a government panel of experts said Tuesday.

At the end of its meeting in Tokyo, the panel said it believes the magnitude-7.6 quake was caused by a reverse fault, when the upper hanging wall of a fault is displaced upward away from the footwall.

The area of tectonic activity has been expanding in and around the region and residents should remain alert for further quakes that register the highest level of 7 on Japan's seismic intensity scale, the panel said.

Strong seismic activity has been detected in the northern area of the peninsula, located in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, since December 2020, according to the panel. The area experienced a quake with a magnitude of 5.4 in June 2022 and one with a magnitude of 6.5 in May 2023.

The magnitude 7.6 quake measured 7 on the seismic intensity scale in the prefectural town of Shika on Monday afternoon, and the peninsula and its vicinity have since experienced strong aftershocks, including quakes measuring upper 5.

Naoshi Hirata, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who heads the panel, told reporters the latest quake is believed to be part of the ongoing seismic activity but "it is not known at this point exactly what part of the fault moved."

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Thie piece of news from the Washington post reports about thw biggest YouTube channel skibidi toilet with a clear standpoint. The writer use harsh words to describe the skibidi toiler. From the words such as "scatological humor" and "harmless entertainment", we can clearly see that the writer view this popular YouTube series as Vulgar and boring videos to the people. With these characteristics, this news has sharply criticized the popularity of new, meaningless short videos.

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The biggest online phenomenon of the year is an animated video series that primarily appeals to children, filled with obscure internet and gaming references that most adults wouldn't understand, and with a name that all but screams scatological humor.
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Its existence has sparked concern among adults, but is in fact a natural outgrowth of a video world created in part by parents who've made a habit of handing their iPads to their children to watch harmless entertainment such as "Cocomelon." The success of the series also shows the first point of tension between Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

Called "Skibidi Toilet," the YouTube series was created by an animator named Alexey Gerasimov for his YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom! The series tells the story of Skibidi Toilets (toilets with human heads) engaged in a war with people who have CCTV cameras, speakers and televisions for heads amid a dark and dystopian landscape. They battle each other across an expanding industrial world that includes New York City landmarks, with the Skibidi Toilets acting on behest of their leader, G-Man, to destroy humanity and transform more people into Skibidi Toilets.

"Skibidi" videos have been viewed more than 65 billion times this year on YouTube alone, making it one of the biggest trends on the platform. On TikTok, videos with the hashtag "Skibidi Toilet" have been viewed more than 15.3 million times, and they've appeared in countless memes and videos on Instagram. DaFuq!?Boom! also has surpassed 36 million subscribers on YouTube, becoming one of the fastest-growing channels on the platform, at times outpacing MrBeast, YouTube's biggest star.

Maddy Buxton, culture and trends manager at YouTube, said "Skibidi Toilet" is a phenomenon unlike any other the platform has seen before.

"It's become one of the year's biggest cultural moments," she said. "I've never quite seen anything blow up like this. It started as a meme but it's evolved into this very complex storyline with a lot of hidden meaning that people are very eager to break down and try to understand."

"Skibidi Toilet" may seem easy to write off as an internet fad, but its ascendance reveals what the future of entertainment might look like across major social platforms. It is the first narrative series to be told entirely through short-form video (60 seconds or less), and it's the first major mainstream meme that has arisen from Generation Alpha (kids roughly age 10 and younger).

"This is one of the first memes that we've seen take off with Gen Alpha and it's one of the first Gen Alpha trends we've seen on YouTube," Buxton said by phone.

With so much focus on TikTok as a culture driver over the past few years, "Skibidi Toilet" is also a testament to the enduring power of YouTube. In one episode, one of the toilet people destroys YouTube's headquarters in what the YouTuber Matthew Patrick called "a not-so-subtle metaphor for how the show has broken the website and ... created a level of virality that has never been seen before."

While Gen Zers initially appreciated the nostalgic gaming element of the series, many of them now feel uncomfortable and have made reaction videos and memes lamenting its growth.

Sophie Browning, 21, a content creator and meme account administrator, says that's a natural reaction to Gen Z being supplanted as the driver of online culture. "This is the first time Gen Z feels old or out of touch with meme culture," she said. "We've been told that we run memes and control what's popular and funny, but now I think Gen Z is reckoning with the new Alphas. It's unnerving for them to encounter this big meme phenomenon that they don't feel a part of and didn't contribute to."

Gerasimov, a 25-year-old self-taught animator and a member of Gen Z, began creating the series earlier this year. He created the DaFuq!?Boom! video channel in 2016 and for years attracted a modest following by posting humorous animated videos.

He creates his animation using a computer graphics tool called Source Filmmaker that allows users to create animations in the style of an early video game called Garry's Mod. Garry's Mod was an online world building sandbox (or space to play around in) similar to "Minecraft." "Early YouTube was filled with GMod videos, the exact same way "Minecraft" videos dominate the platform today," Ryan Broderick, a journalist and content creator, noted in his Garbage Day newsletter, adding that Gerasimov's channel veering deeply into "weird internet aesthetics" played into young people's nostalgia for the internet of the early 2010s.

Said Buxton: " 'Skibidi Toilet' really plays with the language of the internet in ways Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more used to and have grown up with."

The word "skibidi" comes from the series' recurrent theme song, a mashup of the 2007 song " Give It to Me" by Timbaland and a 2022 Turkish song called " Dom Dom " that went viral on TikTok last year. The first few "Skibidi" videos were relatively straightforward toilet humor, but soon evolved into complex narratives.

YouTube says that this rich storytelling has spurred a highly dedicated community online that has created an endless stream of "Skibidi Toilet" fan fiction, art, writing and games inspired by the series.

" 'Skibidi Toilet's' success is a reminder that YouTube is not just about polished productions and celebrity endorsements. It's a space for creativity, experimentation and the unexpected," Buxton said.

Ben De Almeida, a 24-year-old YouTuber with nearly 7 million subscribers, said he watched nearly every episode of "Skibidi Toilet" on a live stream a couple of months ago and has begun to understand its appeal. "I've never seen episodic type [entertainment] on YouTube Shorts," he said. "Especially for Gen Alpha kids, I don't think there was any narrative series they could keep coming back to on Shorts."

But he says he now sees why it's appealing, especially to young people.

"It's not something you have to watch every episode to understand," he said. "There are common characters and themes, and it just gets bigger and bigger. All you really have to know is it's the toilet people fighting the camerahead people and then new characters come in."

The entertainment news website Cartoon Brew reported that "Skibidi Toilet" "may look rough around the edges compared to major studio fare, but there is no question that Gerasimov is a filmmaker who understands pacing, camerawork, sound design, and how to tell a story."

De Almeida said he has watched as Skibidi memes have spread among elementary school-age children. Said Broderick: "'Skibidi Toilet' is one of those things where you might not know what it is, but you know some 5-year-old is watching it and they think it's the funniest, best thing they've ever seen in their life."

The series is so deeply of the internet that it appeals almost exclusively to those who are young enough to have been fully immersed in online content since their earliest memories. These Gen Alpha kids who make up the majority of the "Skibidi Toilet" audience are often loosely referred to online as "iPad babies" because social media content has been their primary form of entertainment since birth.

"I can't help but wonder if 'Skibidi Toilet' is a consequence of iPad babies growing up watching hours and hours of YouTube Kids, which is known for its nonsensical videos featuring characters from various movies, games and TV shows," Browning said. "I think being exposed to YouTube Kids has had an effect on kids' humor."

Older people without a deep intrinsic knowledge of internet culture are unlikely to understand the appeal of the series, Broderick said. "It's such a late-stage internet thing because it's based on previous internet culture artifacts," he said.

Online culture experts said that you can see the direct influence of TikTok on the series. It's short form and often uses viral TikTok sounds. "Gen Alpha are spending their development years on TikTok," Browning said. And the sort of collaborative, iterative, short-form storytelling seen on the app is very tied with "Skibidi Toilet."

Many of the references in the "Skibidi Toilet" series also come from gaming. The leader of the Skibidi Toilets, G-Man, is actually a character from the "Half-Life" series of first-person shooter video games, and the camera-headed people often engage in "Fortnite" dances.

Despite its young audience, "Skibidi Toilet" appears on YouTube, not YouTube's app for children's content, and the company said that theoretically only kids ages 13 and older are supposed to be able to view the content. But parents frequently pass iPads off to young children, who freely view content on YouTube's primary app. "Skibidi" costumes for elementary school-age children were a hot commodity this past Halloween.

"If YouTube thinks anyone over the age of 13 is watching hours and hours of 'Skibidi Toilet,' they're out of their minds," Broderick said. "It's not something anyone with a fully formed brain is enjoying."

Videos of children begging to watch "Skibidi Toilet" have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram and kids have begun playfully hopping out of objects singing the "Skibidi Toilet" song while pretending to be Skibidi Toilets, baffling parents.

This summer, the slang phrase " Skibidi Toilet syndrome" emerged to speak to the effects that relentless "Skibidi Toilet" viewing has on young children. The TikTok account of one elementary school-age child humorously documents his descent into "Skibidi" madness, with videos of him throwing tantrums when he's unable to watch the YouTube videos.

The viral craze has led to panic among adults who can't understand the frenzy their children have developed around the series. Several parenting sites have published articles on "how to protect your kids" from "Skibidi Toilet" syndrome, claiming that the videos are "dangerous."

But YouTube's Buxton says the series is all in good fun. "It's an epic good-versus-bad story told across short-form video," she explained. There's no dialogue in the series, which has allowed it to gain international appeal.

Browning also dismissed any worries about its popularity among young children. "I think older generations are threatened by it because it feels so foreign to them," she said. "It is an admittedly strange visual. I can see how people can be disturbed by it. It's very surreal and crazy, but I feel like Gen Alpha is used to seeing surreal and crazy things on the internet."

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This news story from times of india reported about the Vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali prices emerge costlier in November. The language use forms to tell the story. In the News, the auother used broken line graph to show the rising trend of the prices of onion and tomato to explain the reason of prices rising of Vegetarian and non-Vegetarian.

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NEW DELHI: Vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali prices emerged costlier month-on-month in November as onion and tomato prices rose sharply, according to ratings agency Crisil's roti rice rate index.
The data showed the cost of home-cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis increased 10% and 5% month-on-month respectively. The uptick was attributable to a substantial 58% and 35% month-on-month increase in onion and tomato prices, respectively, prompted by festive demand and lower output in the kharif season due to erratic rainfall.

Cost of a non-vegetarian thali increased at a slower pace than that of a vegetarian thali because of a marginal 1-3% decline in prices of broilers, which account for 50% of a non-vegetarian thali's cost.

Cost of a vegetarian thali rose 9% year-on-year, driven by a 93% and 15% increase in onion and tomato prices, respectively. Prices of pulses, which account for 9% of a veg thali cost, also increased 21% year-on-year.

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Veg, non-veg thalis get costlier in November: Report - Times of India

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India Business News: Vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali prices emerged costlier month-on-month in November as onion and tomato prices rose sharply, according to ratings

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This is the news happened recently. Elon Musk will meet thd Israeli President and other representatives. This was apparently an attempt to quell mounting anger over his support of an anti-Semitic tweet. This news paper shows a quite strong bias on jews, it repots that Elon Musk agreed with Jewish people are stoking hatred against White people.The news paper said that the Israel-Gaza conflict has exacerbated tensions and led to a spike in antisemitic and Islamophobia hate crimes.

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Elon Musk to meet Israeli president as antisemitism furore brews

Elon Musk, Israeli President Isaac Herzog will meet representatives of families of hostages

Critics have accused Musk, the world's richest person, of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on X

Elon Musk will meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and representatives of the families of hostages held in Gaza, in an apparent effort to defuse a growing furore over his endorsement of an antisemitic tweet.

The Tesla Inc and SpaceX chief executive is slated to join a closed-door discussion Monday with the family representatives and Herzog about the need to curb online antisemitism, a spokesperson for the president's office said in a brief statement.

The billionaire has denied being racist and defended his views after endorsing the tweet, which drew condemnation from the White House and rights activists.

Critics have accused the world's richest person of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on X, the service formerly known as Twitter that Musk bought for US$44 billion last year.

The backlash came around the same time Media Matters published a report pointing out alleged pro-Nazi content, triggering an exodus of advertisers including IBM Corp and Apple Inc. Musk has sued the liberal watchdog group.

It's unclear whether Musk intends to raise other issues while in Israel, which is waging war against Hamas after militants killed about 1,200 people and took some 240 hostages in an October 7 attack. Both sides are now in a four-day ceasefire to allow the release of hostages.

While Musk has drawn support from notable figures including hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, others continue to censure the famously outspoken billionaire.

UK premier Rishi Sunak became the latest to speak out against Musk, in a careful criticism that stopped short of the full-throated condemnation by US President Joe Biden.

The furore centres on a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people are stoking hatred against White people. Musk responded to that tweet by saying it was "the actual truth".

On Sunday, tens of thousands of people, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, attended a march against antisemitism in central London.

The Israel-Gaza conflict has exacerbated community tensions and led to a spike in antisemitic and Islamophobia hate crimes.

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This news shares Tara's new meal planning, she said this can make her feel relaxed. Her meal plannning was made by different pices of paper with the food her family and her liked, so it is very convenient to choose what to cook and what to eat. The language this news used is very concise and vivid, the auother used the words like" jotting down" "uncomplicated" to better shows the strategy of Tara makes cooking simple and enjoyable.

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Thinking about what to cook for dinners every week can be exhausting.

After getting married about 10 years ago, Tara Sing decided to take control of that weekly frustration.

The journalist and mum-of-two from south-west Sydney started simple, by jotting down a list of her favourite easy meals on the back of an envelope.

"I had a big folder of recipes I went through, and wrote down any recipe that was easy to make that we enjoyed eating," the 34-year-old says.

"I had about 15 recipes on the back of an envelope and that was our first meal rotation."

Tara's meal planning has since grown into a spreadsheet she can access anywhere, but her strategy has remained uncomplicated.

We asked Tara to share how she saves time and money with meal planning - so we can too - plus how her method has evolved.

Planning three meals - and cooking larger serves

Tara plans three meals a week: a budget meal, a vegetarian meal, and a family favourite.

She chooses from her recipe archive - and makes extra serves.

"I always cook for more serves than we need in general," she says, adding friends or family will often pop over, and the extra food allows her to invite them to stay for dinner.

It also leaves room for two "leftover nights". One is a throw-together meal with remaining fresh ingredients, or what she has stocked in the freezer.

And one evening each week the family usually eats out with extended family or friends.

Her spreadsheet has evolved over time, and today includes the ingredients for every recipe, so it's easy to write her shopping list.

"And I keep tweaking it. Now it has the cost of each ingredient so I can easily work out total cost of the recipe, and cost per serve."

Adding veggies for bulk and swapping out ingredients

Tara knows eating healthy can feel like a challenge, especially with the increasing cost of living, but she says adding veggies to meals is a good hack.

Through her Instagram page, @deskfruitandveg, she demonstrates bulking up meals with sides of affordable veggies.

"I wanted to show myself and my followers, actually adding a tin of corn as a side is a really cheap and healthy way to boost veggies and feel better physically.

"If I make pasta, there is always a side of steamed veggies to go with it.

"It bulks up the plate without bulking up the grocery bill."

She says swapping out certain vegetables in recipes will also save you money.

"Some recipes say snow peas, which at one point were $40 per kilogram. I'm just going to use frozen peas."

Tara says to look for what's on special and can work as a substitute.

Trying one new recipe each month

Tara says she's "reads recipe books like picture books", and really enjoys trying new foods.

A few years ago she set herself a challenge to cook one new recipe every month.

"Every time I try a new recipe that I enjoy, I will add it to the meal rotation."

Tara ends up adding at least one in five new meals to her list.

What's on the menu this week?

This week Tara's family are having chicken enchiladas (budget meal at $14 for four to five serves), slow-cooked butter chicken ($23 for eight serves) and a veggie-loaded satay stir-fry (vegetarian meal).

Tara says when it comes to meal planning, it's important to take the pressure off.

It's OK to stray from the list if you don't feel like making something during the week.

"Sometimes I want a break from the washing up, so if I can do a throw-together meal with some rice, veggies and tinned tuna, sometimes that's my daughter's favourite meal.

"You should be proud to serve that one or two nights a week - because that's a really healthy meal."

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With the Israel-Hamas war, there was some wave of anti-Semitism in a country with a large Jewish population in France.Though the war has plunged people into misery, the people should not take out their emotions on any community because of the war.HOPEFULLY, one can be sensible about war and ideology.

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Religious leaders and politicians pose for a photograph with a banner reading "For the Republic, against anti-Semitism" on the front steps of the Assemblee Nationale building in Paris ahead of a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Paris, France, on November 12, 2023. POOL / VIA REUTERS

More than 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded in France since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday, November 14. There have been growing tensions in France, home to large Jewish and Muslim communities, as war rages in the Gaza Strip.

"There have been 1,518 anti-Semitic acts or remarks," Darmanin told broadcaster Europe 1 in an interview. This was a more than three-fold increase compared to the whole of 2022, when 436 anti-Semitic acts or remarks were recorded. "These are mainly tags and insults, but there are also assaults and injuries," Darmanin added. Those acts resulted in 571 arrests, the ministry told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

In late October, Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into an incident when dozens of Stars of David were daubed on buildings around the city and its suburbs. France has accused Russia of interfering in its affairs by sharing photos online of the anti-Semitic graffiti.

Darmanin said there had also been anti-Muslim incidents "but they are not on the scale of what we are seeing in terms of anti-Semitism." He said that some mosques had received threats of violence. A total of 330 investigations have been opened into anti-Semitic acts and justifications of terrorism since October 7, the Justice Ministry told AFP on Monday.

On Sunday, more than 180,000 people turned out to march against anti-Semitism in France. The march took place a day after several thousand people demonstrated in Paris under the rallying cry "Stop the massacre in Gaza."

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Anti-Semitic acts in France rise to 1,500 since October 7

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France's Jewish population, the largest in Europe, has been targeted by a wave of anti-Semitism, despite the large turnout at a march against this discrimination on Sunday, October 12.

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This news happened currently reported about what happened in Gaza.According to locals, Gaza's sanitation system and desalination system have been severely damaged, and they hope that Israel can implement a humane ceasefire. Israel needs to pay attention to the serious humanitarian problems caused by their attack on Gaza. Hopefully,fewer people died in the war.

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Israel’s humanitarian pauses in Gaza, explained

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Civilians continue to flee south as fighting around hospitals increases.

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Recently, AI created many fake pictures about Israel's war against Hamas. To a certain extent, AI distorts the facts of the war and mobilizes nationalist sentiments in an exaggerated way. It has to be noted that in today's life, pictures are not 100% true and correct.We should pay attention on AI may distort the fact on pictures and photographs.

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Fact check: AI fakes in Israel’s war against Hamas – DW – 11/10/2023

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Real or fake? Images generated by artificial intelligence have become a disinformation tool in the war between Israel and Hamas. DW’s fact-checking team shows you how to spot them.

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Because of the war happend recently. Anti-israel sentiment led one Berlin official to reluctantly advise Jewish residents in an interview to hide their faith after the Israel-Gaza war. But fox news is clearly on the right in its narrative, arguing that people can't be quiet and need to speak up.

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Anti-Israel sentiment has led one Berlin official during an interview to reluctantly suggest that Jewish residents hide their faith in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war.

Speaking with the German news site Der Spiegel, integration commissioner Güner Balci placed blame primarily on political leaders who have failed to address anti-Israeli attitudes in favor of "fighting anti-Muslim racism."

"What happens on a large scale in Neukölln, because we have a significant share of people with Arab roots, exists on a smaller scale in other cities. Political leaders have ignored the problem for decades. Many didn't think anti-Israeli attitudes were that big of a problem and also weren't worried about the strengthening of political Islam. Interior Minister Nancy Fraeser of the SPD even dissolved the expert working group addressing political Islam. That clearly shows that the issue is not a priority," she said.

Balci advised Jewish residents to hide their faith for their safety.

DEADLINE EXPIRES FOR PALESTINIANS TO FLEE GAZA AS ISRAELI TROOPS AMASS AT BORDER
"I would not advise anybody to make their Jewish faith visible in Neukölln. Those who wear the kippa already faced the prospect of being spat on or insulted in quieter times. As a sign of solidarity, we have raised an Israeli flag in front of the Neukölln City Hall - and have done so under police protection just to be on the safe side," Balco said.

She added, "Isn't it sick that such things have become normal in Germany?"

Balci said "wide swaths of the Arab-speaking population in Neukölln harbor sympathies for the terrorists" while more moderate Muslims are not responding out of fear of being ostracized.

"They have either remained silent or issued broad condemnations of violence in the Middle East in general. Functionaries aren't even prepared to call Hamas a terrorist organization. I really want to be pleasantly surprised just once. But I don't think I will," Balci said.

Germany has cracked down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations following violent anti-Israel citizens attacking the police and celebrating the deaths of Israelis over last weekend. Authorities later prohibited an additional demonstration for the week.

WASHINGTON POST FACES BACKLASH AFTER WATERING DOWN PRO-HAMAS REMARKS AS 'CRITICISM OF ISRAEL'
Balci recommended preventative actions, though she noted these projects require more funding. She added that she has faced backlash for these efforts and was labeled a racist.

"Ultimately, though, I decided that I wasn't prepared to let myself be intimidated. We cannot remain silent," she said.

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Israel declared war on Hamas after the latter fired several rockets and invaded the Israel-Gaza border on October 7. At least 1,300 Israelis and 29 Americans have been confirmed dead. Meanwhile, several cities around Europe and the U.S. have held pro-Palestinian protests and demonstrations in favor of the attacks.
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In recent times, pro-Palestinian protesters have been active in many countries. During the protest, which turned ugly, some protesters spoke of a British-style terrorist state and referred to the Nazi Holocaust.Although war can have a negative emotional impact on people, and protest and opposition to war are also joint and good ways to express views, obviously stigmatization and discrimination are less respectable ways.

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Footage has appeared online of protesters with paragliders stuck to their backs chanting 'England is a terrorist state' on the streets of London amid mass protests across the UK over the Israeli army's actions in Gaza.

The video, which was shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows crowds walking down the streets of London shouting: 'Israel is a terrorist state, the UK is a terrorist state, France is a terrorist state, Italy is a terrorist state'.

Those shouting in the footage were also seen to be carrying placards of their own to rival those of pro-Palestine protestors, who marched in cities including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle today with banners reading: 'Stop bombing Gaza'.

Other signs on display included slogans such as 'free us from the shackles of the Zionist state', 'wake up and smell the Zionist propaganda' and 'stop the Zionist massacres and persecution in Gaza'.

Across the UK, popular placard slogans included 'Exist, resist, return' and ' Palestine will be free from the rivers to the sea.'

The people in the video shared on X were also seen with an image of paragliders stuck to their backs, which could be in reference to Hamas blitzing into Israel on motorised paragliders during a lightning offensive last week.

Shocking footage showed squads of Palestinians on suicide missions swooping over the border on the aircraft, spreading fear and chaos among cowering families below before landing and opening fire on Israel civilians and soldiers alike.

It comes despite Met Police issuing a warning that anyone 'with a flag in support of Hamas or any other proscribed terrorist organisation [would] be arrested' during the rallies across the UK today.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, who is responsible for policing in London this weekend, said: 'Our role as an independent and impartial service is to balance the right to lawful protest with potential disruption to Londoners.

'People do not have the right to incite violence or hatred. The law is clear that support for proscribed organisations is illegal.

'Anyone with a flag in support of Hamas or any other proscribed terrorist organisation will be arrested.

'We will not tolerate the celebration of terrorism or death, or tolerate anyone inciting violence.'

The Met added that simply flying the Palestinian flag or supporting the Palestinian people does not constitute a criminal offence, but said 'some situations' in which a flag or banner could be seen as intimidation or intending to cause alarm and distress, in which case it may be a criminal offence.

Former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal this week called on 'all scholars who teach jihad' to join what he called 'a moment for the application'.

Earlier today, the peaceful protests took an ugly turn as activists launched bottles, placards and flares at police in Trafalgar Square.

Aerial footage shows Pro-Palestine supporters becoming extremely hostile towards police, throwing several objects and pouring water over dozens of officers at Trafalgar Square.

The Met Police said they had deployed more than 1,000 officers to police the London demonstration amid fears of clashes. As of 5.30pm, seven protesters had been arrested in London including for public order offences and criminal damage.

The London protest started at Portland Place at around 12pm and was due to finish at Whitehall at 3pm. But huge crowds carried on marching through the heart of the capital to nearby Trafalgar Square, where tempers flared as police appeared to arrest a man up against the iconic plinth. One activist launched a firework towards officers.

Police have closed off a section of Kensington High Street in west London in anticipation of a huge protest outside the Israeli embassy, which is located next to Kensington Palace. Barricades are also in place - with officers lined up along them - to stop protesters getting anywhere near to the Embassy.

Protesters walked from BBC New Broadcasting House in London - which had been doused in fake blood - to the gates of Downing Street where activists chanted: ' Rishi Sunak, shame on you! Suella Braverman, shame on you!' as dozens of officers watched on.

At one point, a group of young protesters could be seen pushing and shouting at police, leading to several arrests. In other unsavoury scenes, posters with the faces of missing Israeli hostages were torn off walls along sections of the route.

The protests come as Palestinians began a mass exodus from northern Gaza after Israel's military told them to evacuate ahead of an expected ground invasion.

Israel is said to be preparing to launch an attack on Gaza by land, air and sea. An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian convoy fleeing northern Gaza on a route reportedly approved by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) killed as many as 70 people, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Attacks on Israel by Hamas last weekend killed at least 1,300 people, mostly civilians. At least 2,200 people have been killed in Gaza as Israeli forces retaliate.

Orly Goldschmidt, spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy to the UK, earlier insisted that Israel was not targeting civilians, but admitted that innocent people would be casualties of the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

'There will be innocent people who will pay tragically with their life, but this is a state of war and we have to prevent anyone from harming us again,' she told Times Radio.

Elsewhere, pro-Palestine protesters climbed Bristol's Castle Park bandstand and waved Palestinian flags and let off flares in Liverpool and Manchester.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the UK was doing 'everything we can to ensure the security of British citizens' after the Defence Secretary said it seemed 'very likely' that there are British hostages in Gaza.

An RAF flight left Israel on Friday night, part of a UK Government effort to get British nationals to safety amid the escalating conflict in the region.

A plane carried passengers to Cyprus, with the Air Force assisting the Foreign Office amid a limited availability of commercial flights.

Three Britons are confirmed to have died during last weekend's assault on Israel, but reports have suggested at least 17 could be among the casualties.

The war has claimed at least 3,500 lives on both sides since Hamas launched an incursion on October 7, with Israel placing the 25-mile Gaza Strip under siege and subjecting it to a torrent of retaliatory air strikes.

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This is the news happened recently. Preliminary estimates from the Western Cape government indicate losses to the agricultural sector due to strong winds and heavy rainfall over the weekend are close to R1.4 billion. It lets people pay attention to the extreme climate brought about by climate change, which has a huge impact on both humans and plants.

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The Western Cape government estimates nearly R1.4 billion in damages in the agriculture sector.

The province provided an update on its response to the storm and flooding disaster.

Anton Bredell wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa to ask for the assistance of the SANDF.

The Western Cape government's early estimations indicate nearly R1.4 billion in damages in the agricultural sector due to the weekend's strong winds and heavy rainfall.

The province provided an update on the response to the storm and flooding disaster.

Ashia Petersen, of the provincial agriculture department, said the initial assessment of the flood damage was, at this stage, R1.4 billion.

"The area impacted most is the Cape Winelands. Only having assessed around 20% of the farms, the damage to infrastructure amounts to R250 million. The crop losses, which include mostly citrus and vineyards, amounts to R150 million," she said.

Petersen said the department had been unable to assess the impact on agricultural workers.
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The department's breakdown of the initial estimates indicate that the Garden Route suffered R7 million in infrastructural damage, while crop losses amounted to R25 million.

The Overberg suffered R130 million in infrastructural damage and R30 million in crop losses.

Meanwhile, MEC for Local Government Anton Bredell said better weather was expected in the coming days, with a slight cold front expected on Friday, though it was not concerning.

He said:

Bredell said the provincial government had sent a request to President Cyril Ramaphosa for the assistance of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF).

"We know that the SANDF has bridge-building experts and engineers as well as mobile bridges, so this was part of the request for the president to allow them to come and help us, especially on the N2, but it won't happen overnight," he said.

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This current news reported about the flood in Libya,  many victims are being carefully checked and logged. More than 10,000 people remain officially missing, according to figures from the UN's Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This is sad news. Hopuflly, people in the affected areas can return to normal life as soon as possible.

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Libya floods: The bodies left unrecognisable by disaster

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Doctors are struggling to identify the remains which have been found as the death toll rises.

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This current news reported that billinare Elon Musk claimed that Taiwan is just like Hawaii is an integral part of China. It is pretty controversial that Elon Musk really believed  the thing about taiwann, this is just a way to help him consolidate the Chinese market, and he is trying to open X's market in China through political recognition.

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His visit drew much attention given relations between China and the US have plummeted in recent years. Despite resuming high-level dialogue, the two countries still disagree on a range of issues, including Taiwan, which has emerged as one of the biggest flashpoints between them. The US has long been Taipei's chief ally.

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Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is 'not for sale'

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Mr Musk draws anger from Taipei again for his comments saying the island belongs to China.

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Mexican lawmakers have held an unprecedented congressional hearing in which they received testimony that "we are not alone in the universe" and displayed alleged non-human remains in the Latin American country's first-ever congressional hearing on unidentified flying objects (Ufos).It is surprising that find the alien, It provides more research areas for scientific research.

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MEXICO CITY, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that "we are not alone" in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country's first congressional event on UFOs.

In the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians were shown two artifacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed were the corpses of extraterrestrials.

The specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.

The two tiny "bodies," displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. Maussan said they were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. He said that they were about 1,000 years old, analyzed through a carbon dating process by Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM).

Similar such finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.

Maussan said it was the first time such evidence had been presented.

"I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that all possibilities are open for any scientific institution... to investigate it," Maussan said.

"We are not alone," he added.

Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3-D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.

"I can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings," he said.

UNAM on Thursday republished a statement first issued in 2017, saying the work by its National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) was only intended to determine the age of the samples.

"In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples," the statement said.

Lawmakers also heard from former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who has participated in U.S. Congressional hearings about his personal experience with UAP and the stigma around reporting such sightings.

Congressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling Morena party, said he hoped the hearing would be the first of other similar events in Mexico.

"We are left with reflections, with concerns and with the path to continue talking about this," Gutierrez said.

In recent years, the U.S. government has done an about-face on public information on UAP after decades of stonewalling and deflecting. The Pentagon has been actively investigating reported sightings in recent years by military aviators, while an independent NASA panel studying UFOs is the first of its kind by the space agency.

NASA is set to discuss findings from the study on Thursday.

Maussan faced swift backlash and criticism from skeptics on Wednesday who questioned the authenticity of his presentation.

"This could really hurt efforts to take the issue seriously," said a user of X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. "Why didn't they wait until a scientific paper was ready to publish it?"

Reporting by Cassandra Garrison and Reuters TV, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien

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A Canadian man, Nathaniel Veltman influenced by white nationalist beliefs, drove his pickup truck into a Muslim family on purpose, killing four people in an alleged “terrorist” rampage. Veltman has denied to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the case. Intriguingly, this is the first time to hear the arguments of terrorism motivation related to white supremacy. It is beyond a shadow of a doubt shows that the dangers of extreme nationalism.

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Prosecutor says the accused planned the 2021 attack, which killed four members of the Afzaal family in Ontario, for months.

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A Canadian man inspired by white nationalist beliefs acted deliberately and with premeditation when he crashed his pick-up truck into a Muslim family, killing four people in an alleged "terrorist" rampage, the prosecutor said at the opening of the man's trial.

Federal prosecutor Sarah Shaikh said in the opening statement on Monday that Nathaniel Veltman, 22, planned his attack for three months before driving his Dodge Ram truck directly at the Muslim family.

Veltman is accused of deliberately hitting five members of the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk in London, Ontario, on the evening of June 6, 2021.

Salman Afzaal, 46, his 44-year-old wife Madiha Salman, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna and her 74-year-old grandmother, Talat Afzaal, were killed in the attack. The couple's nine-year-old son was seriously hurt but survived.

Veltman has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the case, which is the first time arguments of a terrorism motive related to white supremacy will be heard in a Canadian court.

In her opening statement, Shaikh said Veltman drove his truck, which he bought just more than two weeks before the attack, "pedal to the metal", kicking up a cloud of dust as the vehicle surged over the sidewalk's curb, striking his victims.

Shaikh said Veltman told detectives after he was arrested that his intentions were political, that he left his home on the day of the attack looking for Muslims to kill and that he used a truck to send a message to others that vehicles can be used to attack Muslims.

The attack on the Afzaal family sent waves of shock, grief and fear across Canada and spurred ongoing calls for measures to combat Islamophobia.

Veltman was arrested at a nearby mall, wearing body armour and a helmet, after the attack. According to the prosecutor he was overheard in the background of a 911 call saying, "It was me who crashed into them... I did it on purpose".

As he was being handcuffed, he also told police he wanted to "send a strong message" against Muslim immigration, Shaikh said.

Evidence collected by police included writings gushing about white nationalism and against mass immigration. Several knives and an air gun were also seized from the attacker's truck.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the killings were "a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred".

The killing of three generations of the Afzaal family was the deadliest anti-Muslim attack in Canada since a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City in 2017 that left six dead. The perpetrator of that shooting was not charged with terrorism.

Veltman, who wore an oversized wrinkled black suit and white shirt, sat quietly in court as proceedings began on Monday but his hand was shaking when he tried to pour water into a paper cup on his desk.

His lawyer Peter Ketcheson took the jug and filled his cup with some water.

The trial is expected to last about eight weeks.

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Canadian who killed Muslim family inspired by white nationalism: Prosecutor

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Prosecutor says accused planned the 2021 attack, which killed four members of the Afzaal family in Ontario, for months.

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This current news reported Trump’s Georgia election judge being "very sceptical" of trying all defendants together. On Sept. 6, a Georgia judge cast doubt on Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants facing trial together next month in a case involving an alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge gave the prosecutors ten days to explain how they “could keep these defendants together”. Trump has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty in all three cases, which he says are part of a conspiracy to prevent him from retaking the White House in the November 2024 election. This surprising news makes people wonder whether Trump is guilty or innocent, but in any case, I hope to find out the truth as soon as possible.

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Judge in Trump Georgia election case ‘very skeptical’ of trying all defendants together

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A Georgia judge on Wednesday said he was “very skeptical” that Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants could stand trial together as soon as next month in a sprawling criminal case accusing them of conspiring to reverse the former U.S. president’s 2020 election loss.

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This is a piece of news uploaded recently; it raised a question: Is the EU ready for enlargement if Ukraine and others queue joined? There is a potential problem: Is the EU budget enough? The three most significant contributors- Germany, France, and Italy, need to dig deeper into their pockets to support Ukraine; this could influence Ukraine and others to join the EU.

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She has extended the invitation multiple times but has yet to set a date for the welcome party. "You are part of our family, your future is in our union, and our union is not complete without you,"Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, last year told Ukraine and the nine other countries queuing patiently for EU membership.

But as the prospect of Ukraine in particular joining the bloc looms closer, EU leaders are asking if the EU is ready for enlargement.

What would be the impact on the EU budget, already under pressure? Would Poland, Greece or Hungary be happy to go from net beneficiaries of EU funding to net contributors? Would Germany and France be prepared to contribute more?

Would MEPs have to budge up on the benches to make space for more politicians from new states in what could be the world's biggest parliament? Would the political balance swing to the left or the right?

Any one of the 27 member states can veto the accession of another country, making domestic politics a strong factor in decisions as to who gets into the EU and who does not. If any one state finds any of these questions unpalatable to its electorate, it could impede accession.

"It is very late that member states seem to have woken up to the idea that they will have to reform internally," says Steven Blockmans, the director of research at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

The thinktank has been addressing this question for years but it is only now, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that ministries and chancellories around Europe are beginning to do even "back of the envelope" calculations, says Blockmans.

Before the invasion, he says, some observers took the view that enlargement was "clinically dead, kept artificially alive by summits within the EU".

The war changed all of that. As one diplomat said: "Enlargement is not only back on the agenda but it is back as one of the top three issues the leaders are dealing with."

The European Commission has yet to sketch out possible scenarios for budget and institutional reforms in an expanded Europe. Nothing has yet emerged "that would resemble a tangible, structured reform of the enlargement process", Blockmans said in a recent CEPS report.

Ukraine and Moldova were added last summer to the queue of official candidates comprising Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Turkey, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Georgia in the active application process. Kosovo is in a stabilisation agreement with other Balkan states to help get it further on the path.

The European parliament president, Roberta Metsola, has called for official negotiations for entry to the EU to be started with Ukraine and Moldova next year, and there is recognition at the top of the commission that attention must also now be focused on the questions holding up accession for western Balkan countries.

Launching the Spanish presidency of the EU last month, Von der Leyen said: "We have to discuss how the decision-making process will look. We have to discuss how the common funding that we have will be allocated: what are common policies that we follow up? These are very principled questions we have to ask each other. We have to address them as soon as possible, because it will take us time to come to a conclusion."

While Ukraine and Moldova are now frontrunners, one senior EU diplomat cautioned that nothing would happen to expedite the process until there was greater clamour from within the EU. "Nothing will happen until there is maximum political pressure. Why would member states agree to enlargement against the status quo?" said one well-placed source at the top of the European Commission.

This week the European Council president, Charles Michel, urged politicians to start engaging on EU reforms, setting a 2030 target to be ready for expansion. "There is still a lot of work to do. It will be difficult and sometimes painful. For the future member states and for the EU," he said.

By how much would the EU budget, currently €186bn, increase? Would the three biggest contributors - Germany, France and Italy - have to dig deeper into their pockets to support Ukraine? Would Poland, which goes to the polls in October, be prepared to shoulder more of the financial burden?

"Politically, it will be hard to swallow," says Blockmans. But he notes that many of the potential net beneficiaries are in the Balkans and want to see "Russia being pushed back even further", and this may trump the negative arguments around the cost of enlargement.

Then there is question of the size of the European parliament. With a prewar population of 44 million, 3 million smaller than Spain and 3 million bigger than Poland, Ukraine might expect between 50 and 60 MEPs. Could it mop up some of the 73 seats left vacant by Brexit? Or would enlargement make parliament unwieldy? Expect arguments for reducing representation across member states, never a popular subject for those affected.

Given the growing political heft of farming communities, one of the biggest tasks for officials in Brussels is to sketch out possible reforms of the common agriculture policy if Ukraine becomes a member.

Ukraine is one of the biggest players in the global grain market, with more cultivated land than Italy. Before the war, it accounted for 10% of the wheat market, 15% of the corn market and 13% of the barley market. It was also the dominant player in the sunflower oil market with 50% of the sector, according to the European Commission.

Ukraine would be a major beneficiary of common agriculture payments under the present regime. The next funding period for CAP is five years awayand enlargement must be part of the conversation, Silvia Bender, a German food and agriculture minister, said recently.

"We need to think about how we can include the accession candidates and integrate them into European agricultural policy," she said. "If Ukraine were to join then a system of direct payments as we have it today would definitely no longer work."

The issue of access to the internal market and the distortions it might create for farmers would also have to be debated, although Blockmans points out that some of the shock to the system is already playing out in Poland and other neighbouring countries where direct sale of some Ukrainian produce is under a temporary ban.

Blockmans says the prospect of accession of Ukraine will trigger debate and "boost those debates that have been going on for years" about CAP.

His third argument on CAP is one that Ukraine often makes itself. "Were it to join the internal market, with its global market position in food and agriculture, it would turn the EU into a global player and food security provider. There is some truth in that and I think over time these points will make it easier for Ukraine and for the EU to absorb the shock."

A spokesperson for the EU said it was "clear that the accession of any new member state has an effect on EU policies, including the CAP and cohesion" funds. They said it was "impossible to comprehensively assess the impact on the CAP or other EU policies" or budgets "prior to the political outcome of the accession negotiations with each candidate country".

They added: "As during previous accessions, this issue will be addressed as part of the accession negotiations prior to closing the relevant negotiating chapters. At that moment in time, the EU will determine the financial framework of a future accession, including which transitional measures such as phasing in of EU funds should be put in place."

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Only since Russian invasion have European leaders started to do necessary calculations, expert says

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This is up-to-date news about Paul Whelan, an American who has been detained in Russia since 2018. He was sentenced to 16 years on espionage he strongly denies. It is puzzling that Russian detained him without proper reasons and evidence, his freedom and human rights have been evidently violated. Hopefully, Paul can assert his innocence and seek prompt release.

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Detained American Paul Whelan has appeared in a new video taken inside a prison camp in Russia.

In the video released Monday by the state-controlled outlet Russia Today, Whelan is shown in a prison uniform standing among other prisoners, operating a sewing machine and eating with others.

Whelan declines to answer questions from the RT reporter: "So you understand when I say that I can't do an interview, which means I can't answer any questions," he says in the video.

Whelan, a Marine Corps veteran, has been detained in Russia since 2018. In 2020 he was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges he strongly denies.

His brother David Whelan said the 6-minute video amounted to propaganda, but it "was the first time I've seen what he really looks like since June 2020."

David Whelan said the RT crew came in May to the IK-17 prison colony where Whelan is being held.

"Not only did he not want to be interviewed, which you can see he politely declined, prison staff retaliated against him after he didn't participate," David Whelan said in a statement.

"I wish I could see Paul under better circumstances. But it was good to see him again and to see the fight remains in his eyes. It is good to know Paul remains unbowed," David Whelan added.

The U.S. State Department considers Whelan to be wrongfully detained. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in March. Blinken said then that Whelan's detention was one of the topics of their talks, and that the U.S. was "determined to bring Paul and every other American citizen who is unjustly detained around the world home."

The White House said on Tuesday that U.S. officials have spoken with Whelan in the last several months.

"It was reassuring to see that he remains, and this is to use his brother's words, 'unbowed.' Paul continues to show tremendous courage," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. "His circumstances are truly unacceptable and we will continue to be very clear about that. Russia should release him immediately."

Russia has freed other Americans, but some remain behind bars

WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was held in Russia for nearly 10 months last year over possession of less than a gram of hash oil, was released in a prisoner swap last December for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. There was initial hope that Whelan could have been freed in that deal as well, but U.S. officials said Russia refused.

Marine veteran Trevor Reed was released in a prisoner swap in April 2022 for jailed pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. Reed was detained during a trip to Russia in 2019 and accused of attacking a Moscow police officer, which his family denied.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been detained in Russia since March on espionage charges the newspaper and U.S. government say are false. The U.S. considers Gershkovich wrongfully detained.

Other cases include musician Jimmy Wilgus, who has been detained since 2016 on what his family says are false charges of indecent exposure; Thomas Stwalley, imprisoned on what he told the WSJ are false charges of intent to distribute marijuana; and Marc Fogel, a teacher who has been held since 2021 for possession of medical marijuana. Families of Wilgus and Fogel want the U.S. to designate them as wrongfully detained as well.

David Whelan said his brother "has remained aware that his cause is not forgotten, that his freedom remains a priority for the White House."

"I remain positive and confident on a daily basis that the wheels are turning. I just wish they would turn a little bit more quickly," Paul Whelan told CNN in May.

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This is current and contemporary news; it reports that China has suffered extreme heat and disastrous flooding this summer. Many people and crops had been killed; it has undoubtedly caused severe destruction to China's food supplies. After the pandemic, China's economic recovery has been dealt a heavy blow by extreme weather events.

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China's summer this year has seen both extreme heat and devastating floods.

And the flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard of, with scientists - blaming climate change - warning that the worst is yet to come.

"I've never seen a flood here in my whole life," says 38-year-old Zhang Junhua, standing next to a vast patch of rice, now completely useless. "We just didn't expect it."

His family and friends are safe, he says, because they were given plenty of warning to get to higher ground, but everyone in his village now has some tough months ahead.

What's more, the devastation in north-east China's Heilongjiang Province has had a major impact on food supplies for the whole country.

The fields where we planted our crops were all submerged... the losses are incalculable

Zhao Lijuan
Farmer

This month, 40% of the area's famous Wuchang rice crop has been wiped out, visibly flattened by the volume and speed of the water. Places which should appear lush and green are today brown and dead.

"The fields where we planted our crops were all submerged. We can't plant again this year," says another farmer, Zhao Lijuan, as she smiles and tries to be philosophical about the impact on her community.

"The losses are incalculable. We have tens of thousands of acres of rice fields here," the 56-year-old says, adding: "When I saw the water come here, I cried. It laid waste to everything and I am scared the typhoons will be back."

At least 81 people have been killed in the recent floods, including some trying to rescue others.

But the economic pain has been much wider, in a country already struggling to recover following three years of strict coronavirus control measures.

And, if the government wants to measure the immediate cost of not addressing climate change urgently, it need look no further than its own statistics.

In a little over a decade, the number of floods being recorded in the country has increased tenfold.

In the summer of 2011, there were six to eight monthly floods listed in China. Last year, more than 130 were recorded in July and 82 in August.

According to Dr Zhao Li from Greenpeace East Asia, the increase in flood numbers can be partially explained by China developing better systems to monitor and record flood data.

But she says global warming is still clearly a major contributing factor.

"Warmer temperatures can enhance evaporation rates, resulting in more moisture in the atmosphere," she says. "This increased moisture content can lead to more intense rainfall and more frequent and severe storms, including hurricanes and cyclones."

A Greenpeace study from two years ago, using UN climate panel mapping, found that more heatwaves and extreme rainfall would effectively extend summer by one month during this century in the provinces around Beijing and Shanghai. In the Pearl River delta, it would be by more than 40 days.

The Chinese government's own Meteorological Administration officials have reported that extreme high temperatures and extreme precipitation have definitely increased since the mid-1990s.

However, in the face of potential catastrophes, Dr Zhao Li from Greenpeace warns that human beings are not ready for what is just around the corner.

"We are not prepared for extreme weather events. Recent experiences from the floods underline that," Dr Zhao says.

"It's an immense and perhaps unrealistic task to upgrade all infrastructure to be able to face a flood that is the worst in hundreds of years. However, climate change is bringing those once-a-century events into rotation with a frequency that shows we will soon have to control a disaster again."

Officials in China tried to ease the impact of recent floods by using a system of dams of waterways to change their direction.

The problem is that the water has to go somewhere, and it was Zhuozhou in Hebei Province which took the hit.

These are tough choices but, in the end, it becomes a government decision over who must suffer for the greater good.

In Zhuozhou, for many, a bright future is still a long way away.

"It'll take me eight to 10 years to recover from these losses," says Mr Zhang, who has two small businesses there. "The government has not said whether it will compensate us. I run two shops but what I can I do?"

A few weeks ago, cars were still slowly pushing through lingering floodwaters and mush in the main street. On either side of the road were mud-caked vehicles, with windscreens smashed in as they were submerged when the water suddenly rose with such force.

A brown line revealed what was the high-water mark, with all manner of first-floor items swallowed up and spat out into the street as the flood spread the carnage.

"We suffered big losses: trucks and other vehicles; our goods; furniture; everything we own was wrecked," says Mrs Han, who operates a warehouse for deliveries with her husband.

He indicates how even the goods stored high on racks well above three metres were ruined.

Then his wife opens the door to their nearby home - a thick layer of mud cakes everything.

"Every day we keep trying to clear more mud out," she says. "I can't describe how I felt when I saw this. It's as if our life's work is over."

Climate scientists are the first to acknowledge that you can't view any extreme weather experience in isolation.

In June, northern China was baking, with week after week of temperatures soaring above 40C (104F), and then a month's worth of rain bucketed down in 24 hours.

"These weather events do happen without climate change," says Prof Cascade Tuholske. "The mechanisms driving individual events, or compound events like heatwaves and floods impacting China this summer are complex, but climate change is making extreme events more common and more intense."

The professor, a geographer at Montana State University, adds that "climate change-driven weather extremes are a huge problem for China because of its dense population and as a major global economy".

He also says that "every tonne of CO2 that remains in the ground, means fewer people in China will be harmed in the future".

Whether because of droughts or sudden floods, extreme weather is again drawing attention to the impact of climate change on China, with serious questions being asked about whether or not the measures in place to fight it are currently ambitious enough to rein in the destructive force of these potentially catastrophic events.

But this is a global challenge that cannot be fixed in any one country alone.

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China sees both extreme heat and devastating floods, including in areas where flooding was unheard of.