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Ice and snow face permanent damage if warming overshoots 1.5°C, a UN report warns

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The report, by 80 scientists for the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative and the UN Environment Programme, finds much of the damage would be permanent even if temperatures came back down to 1.5°C.

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Ghana says Putin agreed not to recruit Ghanaians for the war in Ukraine

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Ghana's foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said Vladimir Putin made the pledge when he met President John Dramani Mahama in the Kremlin on Oct 30, at the third Russia-Africa summit.

Zelensky offers to stop striking Russian refineries in exchange for Patriot missiles

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Nov 1 that if the United States provided Patriot missiles for one month, Ukraine would stop hitting Russian oil refineries for the same period.

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Algeria to send troops to Niger for the first time in decades

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Both chambers of Algeria's parliament approved sending army units to Niger on Oct 25, and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune authorized the mission the next day to protect shared energy and economic interests.

China details a two-launch plan to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030

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Wang Xiang, deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program, outlined the plan on Saturday at a symposium in Beijing, saying it matches the country's existing technical capabilities.

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Erdogan visits South Korea and floats a partnership on Turkey's Sinop nuclear plant

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Seoul on Monday for a visit through Nov 4, his first to South Korea since 2018, and meets President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday.

Hackers say they breached Russia's statistics agency and took data on its war losses

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Rosstat, Russia's federal statistics service, confirmed its websites have been under cyberattack since Oct 29. The logos of the Belarusian Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow appeared on its pages.

EU watches Poland's Constitutional Tribunal crisis as Le Pen weighs in

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The crisis deepened Friday night when President Karol Nawrocki went to the Tribunal building amid a deadlock over new judges, as police surrounded it live on television.