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Joe Biden with everything but a virtual foot massage on Day One of his Climate Leaders Summit.
While the rhetoric was positive, and some big countries increased their emission reduction goals (Japan, Canada, South Korea) the world’s biggest carbon emitters in both absolute and relative terms (think China, Australia, Saudi Arabia) didn’t change course.
Among the greener governments, Biden’s counterparts are generally grateful for his tone and new plan to halve emissions by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels), but they’re also skeptical he can deliver without support from Congress. It’s not the world’s first time at the American climate rodeo (
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22 April, 2021, 12:15 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the board of trustees of the Russian Geographical Society via a video conference call in Moscow, Russia April 14, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday not to cross Russia’s “red lines”, saying Moscow would respond swiftly and harshly to any provocations and those responsible would regret it.
At a time of acute crisis in ties with the United States and Europe, with Russian troops massed near Ukraine and opposition leader Alexei Navalny on hunger strike in jail, the Kremlin leader used his state of the nation speech to project a message of Russian strength and defiance in the face of outside threats.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Police rounded up more than 1,400 protesters on Wednesday as Russians in dozens of cities took part in rallies organised by allies of hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over his failing health in jail.
His spokeswoman was jailed for 10 days, and another close ally detained, on the same day that President Vladimir Putin delivered a state-of-the-nation speech warning the West not to cross Russia’s “red lines” and pointedly made no mention of Navalny.
“This is one of the last gasps of a free Russia, as many are saying. We came out for Alexei . against a war in Ukraine and the wild propaganda,” said Marina, a student at the Moscow protest.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Police rounded up more than 1,700 protesters on Wednesday as Russians in dozens of cities took part in rallies organised by allies of hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over his failing health in jail.
His spokeswoman was jailed for 10 days, and another close ally detained, on the same day that President Vladimir Putin delivered a state-of-the-nation speech warning the West not to cross Russia’s “red lines” and pointedly made no mention of Navalny.
“This is one of the last gasps of a free Russia, as many are saying. We came out for Alexei . against a war in Ukraine and the wild propaganda,” said Marina, a student at the Moscow protest.
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