Diplomats fear Russia may use Syrian aid as bargaining chip in Ukraine

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A man walks near the remains of a missile in the city of Lysychansk, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

WASHINGTON – Only one route remains open for international convoys bringing food, water and other aid to over 1 million Syrians besieged by civil war. Now, officials warn, Russia might try to shut it down or use it as a bargaining chip with world powers in another war, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) away in

Planet’s breakneck warming likely to pass 1.5 degrees, U.N. scientists warn

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An employee holds a sample of crude oil at the Yarakta oilfield in the Irkutsk region of Russia. | REUTERS

The international goal to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius is officially on life support. A United Nations-backed panel of climate scientists warned in a new report released Monday that the world may be on track to warm by more than 3 degrees — twice the Paris Agreement target — in a change that

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