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Beasts and besties: German chancellors and US presidents through time

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the respective men in the Oval Office? Euronews checks out some of the key pairings through time.

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Transatlantic trepidation: Europe reacts to the new Reagan presidency – archive, 1981

No inauguration of any modern American president has been viewed in Europe with such ambiguity as that of Ronald Reagan

The Guardian - UK

Why UN climate summits still matter – and what to expect from Cop29

Every autumn, the UN holds its international climate summit or “Cop” (Conference of the Parties). Between each Cop, a smaller, lower-profile gathering takes place. Called the SB – short for “subsidary bodies” of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – these smaller meetings matter but don’t draw as…

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Why a new climate finance goal already has countries fighting

Even though India’s southwest monsoon season is officially over, it left much loss and damage in its wake. The most devastating disaster this season was the landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad which killed over 400. The impact of climate change on India’s weather systems is well recorded. As every season becomes more intense and…

Newslaundry

The motion of the body through space: Rebecca Horn in Munich

Six decades of Rebecca Horn's work are currently being exhibited at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany

Wallpaper

The importance of food in climate talks

"At the G7 summit and Bonn climate conference, world leaders failed to discuss "the cow in the room"

Salon

Key takeaways from the Bonn climate conference

Main points from the talks in Germany over who should pay for changes needed to cope with impact of climate breakdown

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Climate activists bemoan scant progress on finance as Cop29 looms

UN says finding funds to tackle climate crisis is ‘a steep mountain to climb’, as talks end with little agreement

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Youth activists are now real agents of change at global climate summits

Standing in the middle of the UN climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, a young undergraduate student asks to learn more about the conversations that were shaping the negotiations. She’s attending discussions around the global goal on adaptation, one of the many key themes in these latest climate negotiations.

The Conversation

Don’t miss: Thea Djordjadze’s site-specific sculptures in London

Thea Djordjadze’s ‘framing yours making mine’ at Sprüth Magers, London, is an exercise in restraint

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A stocktake before the Global Stocktake

The Bonn Climate Change Conference showed that countries are far from making collective progress in tackling climate change

The Hindu

Finland in 1944, Kurdish ghettos of Bonn, and January 6: the top 5 films at the Sydney Film Festival in 2023

Winter on Market Street, and it’s time to switch off one’s phone and retreat to the cinema cave for the 12 days of hibernation known as the Sydney Film Festival.

The Conversation

UN climate talks in Bonn end in stalemate as poorer countries plead for action

Ten days of climate talks wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday with negotiators unable to agree on key issues ahead of the Cop28 summit in December. Developing countries that are especially vulnerable to climate change say richer ones are failing to deliver the funding they need to weather the…

Radio France Internationale

Fossil fuel lobbyists will have to identify themselves when registering for Cop28

Campaigners have heralded the move as a victory for transparency, making polluting industries more accountable

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Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is ‘death sentence’ for world’s poor

Climate activist says only ‘rapid and equitable’ phaseout will keep temperatures within 1.5C limit

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Hoping for an effective COP28? Bonn chance!

Bonn climate meeting planning for Dubai COP in December starts with clashing agendas, including EU and US politicians saying having an oil company chief executive as president of the negotiations would “severely jeopardise" them

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Countries have not yet agreed to put fossil fuel phase-out on Cop28 agenda

Director-general of climate talks, Majid Al Suwaidi, says governments have not reached agreement to discuss key issue

Reuters

COP28 Director-General dismisses criticism of his boss, says summit needs new mindset

There's no conflict of interest between leading the United Nation's next climate change summit in Dubai in December and heading the United Arab Emirates' state oil giant at the same time, COP28 Director General said on Tuesday.

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UN climate talks in Germany kick off with no final agenda

United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai.

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Countries must put aside national interests for climate crisis, UN says

Simon Stiell tells conference in Bonn the world is at ‘tipping point’ and must fight together for common good

Reuters

Three German airports empty as transport strikes begin

Airports in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne Bonn were virtually empty on Thursday in the first of another round of strikes called by Germany's Verdi trade union over the cost of living crisis.

Reuters

Strikes at German regional airports ground majority of flights

The majority of flights at Germany's Duesseldorf and Cologne Bonn regional airports were grounded by a 24-hour strike by the Verdi trade union on Monday, the airports said.

The Guardian - UK

‘This exhibition is hard and beautiful’: staging a major retrospective of Boris Mikhailov’s work

The Ukrainian photographer’s work takes on a new prescience following Russia’s invasion

The Guardian - UK

Photographer Boris Mikhailov’s Ukrainian Diary: ‘He is a kind of proto-punk’

The provocative work of the self-taught Ukrainian spans nearly 60 years, from Soviet oppression and glasnost to today

Zenger

Germany Wins Robot Soccer World Cup

This is the moment robots take part in a bizarre soccer tournament – and just like in real life the German side turns out to be the terminators.

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