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À mi-parcours de la cruciale COP26, l'ancien président américain Barack Obama, en déplacement à Glasgow, a regretté lundi le manque d'ambition de la plupart des pays et salué la "colère" de la jeunesse.

Le 2 novembre, lors du sommet mondial sur le climat (COP26) qui se tient actuellement en Écosse, plus de 100 pays ont signé la Déclaration des dirigeants de Glasgow sur les forêts et l’utilisation des terres. Les pays signataires s’engagent « à stopper et à inverser » la déforestation et la dégradation des sols d’ici à 2030.

« La balle est dans le camp des Britanniques » dans la crise sur la pêche entre la France et le Royaume-Uni, a déclaré Emmanuel Macron, en rappelant que des mesures de rétorsion s’appliqueraient mardi prochain si Londres n’acceptait pas la « désescalade » proposée par Paris.

Dirigeants et militants du monde entier sont réunis depuis dimanche et jusqu'au 13 novembre à Glasgow, en Ecosse, pour la conférence sur le climat COP26, qui vise à tenter de contenir le réchauffement climatique sous la barre des 2 degrés d'ici 2100.

Fossil fuel firms have been given no official role in the Cop26 climate summit, it can be revealed, against a background of growing concern among UK officials that big oil’s net zero plans do not stack up.

Adraconian police and crime bill is making its way through parliament, and on Tuesday the home secretary, Priti Patel, told her party’s conference that she planned to remove even more rights from political protesters. New offences of disrupting motorways and national infrastructure will be added to legislation that already dramatically expands police powers.

The government's reserve tanker fleet was being deployed on Wednesday afternoon to boost fuel deliveries, the business secretary said.

While Taliban atrocities are widely understood, those committed by western forces and their allies have been wilfully ignored. As the author and Afghanistan expert Anand Gopal told me, the Taliban all but evaporated in 2001. But Afghan politicians in the new government exploited a US desire to eliminate “bad guys” by falsely claiming their opponents were Taliban supporters.

Yemen is grappling with the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, and is on the brink of famine. About 80% of Yemen’s population – more than 24 million people – are in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children, according to Unicef. Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five will suffer acute malnutrition in 2021.

Just over 30 years ago, band The La's released their sole LP – a masterpiece that shaped guitar music. But its brilliant frontman has been elusive ever since, writes Shaun Curran.