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Earth to hit critical warming threshold by early 2030s, climate panel says

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

The report published Monday by the world's leading climate science body, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, summarizes the panel's output over the past five years, amounting to some 10,000 pages of dense scientific prose. This synthesis is succinct at 37 pages, and its message is blunt: Burning fossil fuels is threatening human well-being and the stability of much of life on Earth, and our chance to avoid the most severe impacts is fast moving out of reach.
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How the U.S. broke Iraq

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

"You break it, you own it." That's the so-called Pottery Barn rule, famously invoked two decades ago by Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W. Bush ahead of their administration's decision to launch its invasion of Iraq. In February 2003, Powell staked his considerable reputation on a presentation he delivered at the U.N. Security Council, offering to the world "facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence" about the Iraqi regime's possession of so-called weapons of mass destruction.
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As Xi visits Russia, Putin sees his anti-U.S. world order taking shape

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

For Vladimir Putin, the state visit to Russia by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which begins on Monday, provides a giant morale boost and a chance to showcase the much-vaunted new world order that the Russian leader believes he is forging through his war on Ukraine - in which the United States and NATO can no longer dictate anything to anyone.
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New genetic data links raccoon dogs to the pandemic’s origin

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

The protracted and rancorous debate over the origin of the COVID pandemic has added a small but potentially significant data point: A sample taken in a Wuhan market in early 2020 showed genetic traces of both the coronavirus and a raccoon dog, according to scientists who have analyzed newly obtained data from China.
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