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China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe.

The world’s second-biggest economy is also the biggest source of carbon dioxide by far, and its decisions on how far and how fast to shift to a low-carbon model will determine whether the world can stay within relatively safe temperature bounds.

China’s plans are to cut emissions by between 7% and 10% of their peak by 2035 – a long way from the 30% cut that experts said was feasible and necessary.

Xi Jinping, the president of China, made the announcement at a summit of world leaders to discuss the climate crisis at the UN general assembly on Wednesday afternoon in New York.

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British authorities detained a man in his 40s over a series of cyberattacks that grounded flights at major European airports. Such attacks against transport hubs are on the rise.

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a suspect had been detained in connection with recent cyberattacks that disrupted air travel at several major European airports.

The suspect, said to be in his 40s, was arrested in southern England late on Tuesday.

"Although this arrest is a positive step, the investigation into this incident is in its early stages and remains ongoing," read a statement by NCA Deputy Director Paul Foster.

"Cybercrime is a persistent global threat that continues to cause significant disruption to the UK," he added.

The Netherlands is close to signing a deal with Uganda to set up a hub where rejected asylum seekers from the region can be sent before being deported to their home countries, a government source said on Wednesday.

In March, the European Commission proposed that member countries would be allowed to set up centres in non-EU countries where migrants whose asylum claims were rejected could await deportation.

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My friend and I vividly remember a scene with Gomez/Gomez and Morticia waiting for Fester to wake up and staring over him while he sleeps. Gomez monologues to himself. Does this happen in the movie, Addams Family fans? Or did our brains make this up?

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This is something I've been thinking about for a while, and it's a huge problem, but I don't really see a lot of discussion about it. We have the technological means now for every single person on the planet to communicate directly with every single other person, in near-real time. The only real barrier to it is logistical (and is mostly impeded by resource hoarding). That's amazing. And the recent election in Nepal via Discord has me thinking again about how the internet could form the basis for a real, democratic, world government. There are a ton of problems that would need to be addressed, off the top of my head:

• not everyone has internet access
• not everyone that has access has unfettered access
• It's hard to preserve anonymity and have fair elections
• it's hard to verify elections haven't been tampered with
• what happens when violent crimes are committed?
• how do taxes work in this system?
• how do armed forces work in this system?

I don't think any of these problems are necessarily unsolvable, but I don't know how. So, how would we get from where we are to where we want to be? How do we even define what the end state should look like?

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Bart M. J. Szewczyk, Author, nonresident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and adjunct professor at Sciences Po, joins Genie Godula to break down Donald Trump’s latest rhetorical pivot on Russia. The US president’s recent remarks, suggesting Ukraine could “win back all of its territory”, mark a significant departure from his administration’s previously ambivalent and sympathetic stance toward Moscow. While Mr. Szewczyk cautions against taking Trump’s pronouncements at face value, he acknowledges “it is a big diplomatic shift and time will tell whether it translates into additional economic pressure against Russia and greater military support to Ukraine.”

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Hey!

There's some things I am planning on ordering, and I'd like to get them delivered without my parents knowing.

The things in question are some 23w CFL bulbs, e27 sockets, PC fans and a power strip.
I was originally planning on just buying them in person, but literally no shops near me have them.

I can't actually find them anywhere but the american version of amazon -- my country's (Ireland) version of amazon doesn't have them.

I asked a few friends if I could send the things to their house, and get it through them, but all of them said no.