World News: 02 July 2022

Australia prioritizes reducing emissions and cheaper EVs
A bill will be introduced to commit Australia to reducing its emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 when Parliament sits on July 26, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen told the National Press Club.

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Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off
A day after the Kyiv attack, as G-7 leaders met in Germany to discuss further support for Ukraine during their annual summit, Russia fired missiles at a crowded shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, killing at least 19 people.

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Pak lawmakers fume as 10 countries including U.S export their waste to Pakistan
After the rhetoric by Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on the so-called "foreign conspiracy" by the US to oust him from power, now, ironically, the country is witnessing "imported waste" by some of the friendly countries, local media reported. To add insult to injury, the names which exported waste to Pakistan were some of the friendly countries.

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Chip shortage keeps driving up auto prices, cutting sales
At General Motors, which reported a 15% sales drop, shortages of chips and other parts forced the company to build 95,000 vehicles without one part or another. The incomplete vehicles are expected to be finished and sold by the end of the year.

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Dozens of flights cancelled in French airport strike
With firefighters on strike, the French civil aviation authority has requested preventive flight cancellations and closed part of the runways for safety reasons which will impact 1-in-5 flights at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport between 7am and 2pm.

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‘Revolutionary’ high court term on abortion, guns and more
Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court's conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government's regulatory powers.

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