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Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, home of the world’s biggest industrial polluter, the state-owned oil company Aramco, has long been regarded as a climate villain, accused of collaborating with other energy-producing states at international negotiations to water down ambitions and obstruct progress. Its 2015 NDC set a target of reducing emissions by up to 130 MtCO 2e (million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent) by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual scenario, a target that many analysts have described as inadequate. Assessing progress towards this modest goal has also proved impossible – the kingdom h...

The Biden administration is moving to reverse a Trump-era rule that defunded abortion providers. A Trump-era rule banned health providers who received funding from Title X, the federal family planning program, from offering abortions or referring patients for abortions. The rule, which has been widely condemned by health care associations, also required clinics that received federal Title X funding physically separate from facilities that provide abortions. As a result of the rule, Planned Parenthood pulled out of the Department of Health and Human Services has proposed regulations to undo ...

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Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 04.01 EST A simmering row in Australia over plans to charge social media companies for sharing news erupted last week when Facebook blocked news sites across the country. The row was resolved on Tuesday with an 11th-hour deal that will see the web giant excluded from the new code in exchange for signing deals with content providers to showcase their news. In this week’s big story, the team from Guardian Australia look at how a compromise was reached before Emily Bell analyses Facebook’s gambit – which she calls a PR disaster even for a company t...

Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 12.35 EST Al Jazeera’s surprise decision to launch a digital platform for conservatives in the US has left many within the Qatar-based news organisation dumbfounded and confused, staff have told the Guardian. The network has announced the launch of Rightly, a platform that will host programmes and produce online content aimed at “audiences currently underrepresented in today’s media environment”, in this case right-of-centre Americans. It will be overseen by Scott Norvell, part of the founding team of Fox News, who said in a press release that Rightly ...