World News: 18 May 2023

World likely to warm beyond key 1.5°C limit by 2027
If a 1.5°C temperature rise is recorded, it would not mean the target set during the Paris Agreement would be lost as the global average temperature would need to exceed 1.5°C more than once before long term warming can be said to have taken place.
Met Office expert Dr Leon Hermanson said the temperature rise will likely come from a combination of greenhouse gases and a naturally-occurring El Nino event – a heating of the eastern Pacific which affects rainfall and temperature globally. Typically, El Nino raises global temperatures the year after it develops so scientists are expecting temperatures to rise in 2024.

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Tahawwur Rana: US court approves extradition of 26/11 Mumbai Attack accused
Tahawwur Rana has been accused by India of participating in the planning and execution of the Lashkar terrorist attacks in Mumbai by collaborating with his childhood buddy David Coleman Headley, also known as "Daood Gilani," and others.
Rana was convicted in Chicago in 2011 of providing material support to the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which planned the Mumbai terror attack

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Russia launches ninth Kyiv air attacks this month
The attack on Kyiv marks the ninth time this month that Russian air raids have targeted the capital, a clear escalation after weeks of a lull and ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive using newly supplied advanced Western weapons.

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Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok over security concerns
Montana's new law will ban downloads of TikTok across the state and fine any "entity" $10,000 per day for each time a person in the state is able to access the social media platform or download the app. The penalties would not apply to users.
The measure follows Gianforte's ban of the app on government-owned devices in late December. The governor said Tiktok posed a "significant risk" to sensitive state data.

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‘Clock has hit midnight’: China loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia — found paying back that debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. And it’s draining foreign currency reserves these countries use to pay interest on those loans, leaving some with just months before that money is gone.

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Jeffrey Epstein: Deutsche Bank to pay $75m over sex-trafficking lawsuit
The accord resolves claims in a proposed class action in Manhattan federal court by Epstein's accusers, and was confirmed by their lawyers late on Wednesday. Court approval is required. Jeffrey Epstein had been a Deutsche Bank client from 2013 to 2018.

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