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November 21, 2022

Climate Target Still On 'Life Support' Despite Cop27 Deal

A historic Cop27 deal to address the devastating effects of the climate crisis is an important step forward but the failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions means our planet is still in the emergency room”, the UN secretary-general has warned.

4 mins

Millions More Forecast To Be On Benefits As Recession Hits

Millions more people will be forced onto benefits in the coming years as the effects of the recession bear down, economists have warned.

3 mins

The Briton who lost his life working on Khalifa stadium

If English football administrators were desperate to avoid controversy about labour issues in Qatar during the World Cup, then the choice of venue for the team’s first match has put paid to any such hope.

4 mins

BBC smartly swaps opening ceremony for studio debate

Opening ceremonies to major sporting events are, in the robust opinion of a committed sports fan, a sop to the people who love the drama and spectacle of international commingling, but have little interest in the games being played.

3 mins

Female officials in Qatar can inspire the world’s women

History will be made in Qatar for the Fifa World Cup 2022, with the appointment of six female match officials for the first time.

3 mins

Lycett's £10,000-shredding protest divides supporters

Joe Lycett’s latest stunt has divided fans, after he appeared to shred 10,000 in protest against David Beckham’s involvement in the 2022 World Cup.

2 mins

Raab accused of obscene’ language in the Commons

Embattled deputy prime minister Dominic Raab is under growing pressure amid calls for a third probe into his alleged behaviour.

2 mins

Asylum seekers can’t afford clothes or toiletries’ on 8 a week government support

Asylum seekers say they cannot afford the clothes and toiletries they need, or to leave their accommodation, as they survive on as little as 8 a week and living costs continue to soar.

4 mins

Prosecutors receive Met file on cash-for-honours claims linked to the King’ S charity

Police have passed a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service CPS) over an alleged cash-for-honours scandal involving one of King Charles’s charities.

2 mins

More shelling at plant risks nuclear disaster, UN warns

Zaporizhzhia was hit by a dozen airstrikes over the weekend

2 mins

Turkey strikes rebel groups in Syria and Iraq, killing 31

At least 31 people have died after Turkey launched airstrikes on Kurdish armed groups in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for the 13 November bombing of a major pedestrian shopping district in Istanbul.

2 mins

‘Heroic’ patrons subdued LTGB+ club gunman

A gunman killed five people and injured 25 others during a mass shooting inside a LGBT+ nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday.

4 mins

Truth or reconciliation?

Trump has made clear his commitment to his own platform, Truth Social, writes Chris Stevenson. But the question is for how long he can resist the temptation to return to Twitter

2 mins

There is no time to wait for bold climate action in Africa

This month’s Cop27 climate negotiations in e e Egypt were being called Africa’s Cop”, a recognition of the daily impact of the climate crisis on communities across the continent.

3 mins

The chancellor has forgotten about half of the population

It has been a bleak week. I sat and watched as the same Tories who had cheered for the unfunded tax cuts proceeded to cheer for the spending tightening and tax rises that have had to be put in place to deal with their recklessness.

4 mins

Tran’s murderous regsime will sink to any lengths to survive

Each day in Iran, the regime resorts to graver and more shocking tactics as it seeks to stamp out an unprecedented protest movement that is challenging the entire Islamic Republic.

4 mins

Why Qatar trumps Twitter in the advertiser’s dilemma

The World Cup needs advertisers but the e e advertisers need the World Cup more.

3 mins

I won’t watch the World Cup

Good luck to England but this is not a tournament where all fans can feel welcome, so Harriet Williamson is opting out

2 mins

WILD ABOUT WOLVES

The process of how domesticated animals, such as dogs, came into our lives and the bond we have with them has been the subject of plenty of research, writes Sean T Smith

8 mins

Musk’s macho management style could kill this merger

#RIPTwitter? The offices of the social media company are supposed to reopen today after last week’s closure, amid yet more tumult sparked by Elon Musk’s quixotic some would call it unhinged acquisition and operation of the business.

3 mins

In more of a geopolitical summit than a World Cup opener, Ecuador beat Qatar

The 22nd World Cup’s opening game really was not a football match, and not just because it was such an easy Ecuador win. What we actually watched was a political summit, a genuine geopolitical event.

4 mins

Qatar make disastrous start both on and off the pitch

Rising out of the desert and out of nothing, the Al-Bayt Stadium provides such an arresting sight that it made for a symbolic choice to host the opening game of the first World Cup ever staged in the Middle East.

3 mins

Mbappe is forced to wait by game still in thrall to Messi

Qatar was supposed to see the French star take over but his Paris Saint-Germain teammate goes into his final World Cup playing at the peak of his powers, writes Miguel Delaney

5 mins

Southgate’s biggest problem could be that he’s made the impossible job look possible

As England prepare to embark on another World Cup campaign, it is worth remembering where we were at the start of the last one.

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