Who is the new Pope and what are his views?
Pope Leo XIII, a US-born Pope, said he looks forward to meeting new US President Donald Trump. “I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. What a great honour for our country, and what can we learn from the first US President?” he tweeted. He added, “I also look forward to meeting Pope Francis, who’s the second Pope from the Augustinian order.”
David Souter was a Supreme Court justice
US Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who passed away aged 70, had retired from the court in 2009 and had been living in his native New Hampshire. Souter had served on the state Supreme Court for 20 years and was named Chief Justice in Ronald Reagan’s administration. He had also served on the NH Historical Society for more than 40 years.
Conflict expert warns against taking India-Pakistan to be a huge risk
As many as 31 people, including seven soldiers, were killed in Indian airstrikes on terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot, the country’s Army said on Wednesday. In response, Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans in Pulwama district. India carried out air strikes against terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Pakistan calls India’s operation an act of war
The US on Monday said that it is “deeply disappointed” by the attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists on an air force base in Pathankot, adding that the United States “stands ready to help India in any way”. It added, “We have no choice but to do everything possible to prevent this type of actions from taking place.” The attack had left two Indian aircrew members dead.
Bill Gates felt that Musk was involved in the death of the world’s poorest children
In an interview with The New York Times, Microsoft Co-founder and world’s second-richest person Tim Gates said, “I thought there’d be, like, a 20 percent cut.” He added, “Instead, right now, it’s like an 80 percent cut. I don’t think anybody expected that.” Gates further said his foundation was “rattled” by Elon Musk’s commitment to the ‘Giving Pledge’.
Climate risk for younger generations is set to increase
A study published in Nature Communications found that people living in a world without climate change would have a one in 10,000 chance of experiencing extreme weather. Researchers defined the emergence threshold for Ultra-High Exposure to Climate Extremes (ULE) as 99.99th percentile of grid-scale samples of pre-industrial lifetime exposure.
It’s time for adults to act like adults on climate change
The emergence threshold for ultra-violet exposure to extreme events in a pre-industrial environment and population size from 1960 to 2020 was calculated as the 99.99th percentile of grid-scale samples of pre-industrial lifetime exposure. For each extreme event, birth year, GMT pathway and grid cell, we assess if lifetime exposure emerges or passes this threshold of extreme exposure in a pre-industrial climate.
Climate extremes have unprecedented lifetime exposure
A study has used pre-industrial lifetime exposures to generate 40,000–310,000 country-wide maps of exposure to extreme weather events, based on impact simulations and GCM input data. It estimates each exposure projection originating from a simulation under a pre-industrial climate by resampling exposure years with replacement. This process generates 40,000–310,000 country-wide maps depending on the extreme event considered and its underlying data availability.
China will probably play hardball in the U.S. tariffs talks
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Geneva this week for the first high-level US-China talks to end the trade war, the US said on Thursday. The two countries are set to remove tariffs on each other’s goods but maintain the 20% tariffs that have been imposed. Earlier, both countries had imposed tariffs on each other’s goods.
The new flying ID restrictions are difficult to understand
The US Transportation Department is auditing the compliance with the REAL-ID law because it believes states did the best job, Brian Zimmer, a former congressman and consultant on REAL-ID laws, said. Many states initially resisted the law due to cost, privacy, and the burden on some people to provide additional documentation, Zimmer added. He said that he wrote the act.