World News: 20 November 2022

Landmark climate change deal struck at UN summit COP27 in Egypt to help poorest countries
It’s the first time the issue has been discussed at a major summit.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently warned the world was headed for “climate chaos” as he urged world leaders to commit to cutting emissions.
However, there are still fears that the target of curbing global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial times in line with the Paris Agreement, may still not be upheld.

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NASA expects humans to live on Moon this decade
Howard Hu, who leads the Orion lunar spacecraft programme for the agency, said habitats would be needed to support scientific missions.
He told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Wednesday's launch of the Artemis rocket, which carries Orion, was a "historic day for human space flight".
Orion is about 134,000km from the Moon today.
The 100m-tall Artemis rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre as part of Nasa's mission to take astronauts back to Earth's satellite.
Sitting atop the rocket is the Orion spacecraft which, for this first mission, is uncrewed but is equipped with a 'manikin' which will register the impacts of the flight on the human body.

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World’s longest-serving president eyes re-election for record sixth term
Obiang, aged 80, has been in power for more than 43 years — the longest tenure of any living head of state today except for monarchs.
A few dozen voters had already queued up when the doors swung open at a polling station set up in a school in Malabo’s Semu district early in the morning.

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France's star striker Benzema to miss World Cup due to thigh injury
Benzema's injury is a major blow for Deschamps, whose preparations for the tournament had already been hampered by fitness problems.
France have come to Qatar without the key duo of Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante, their starting midfield pairing from the successful 2018 World Cup campaign, who were both ruled out due to injury before Deschamps named his squad.
Back-up goalkeeper Mike Maignan and centre-back Presnel Kimpembe also withdrew before RB Leipzig forward Christopher Nkunku had to pull out after suffering a knee injury in France's final training session before departing for Qatar.

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Turkey targets Kurdish groups in Syria, Iraq
The attacks come just days after Ankara blamed the PKK for a deadly bombing in central Istanbul last week which killed six people and wounded 81.
The PKK, which has waged an insurgency in Turkey for decades, and the YPG have both denied any involvement in the attack.

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UK PM Sunak makes surprise trip to Kyiv, boosts defense aid
The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds ($60 million), comes as Russia has been pounding Ukraine's power grid and other key infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts for millions of Ukrainians amid frigid weather.
The package includes radar and other technology to counter the Iran-supplied exploding drones that Russia has used against Ukrainian targets. It comes on top of a delivery of more than 1,000 anti-air missiles that Britain announced earlier this month.

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