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THE GUARDIAN - Former US vice-president says bank should refocus its spending and end its role in ‘fossil fuel colonialism’ Fundamental reform of the World Bank could be completed within a year, to refocus its spending on the climate crisis and end its contribution to “fossil fuel colonialism”, according to the former US vice-president Al Gore. “I don’t know why it need take longer than a year,” said Gore, a longtime campaigner on the climate crisis since leaving politics, in an interview with the Guardian at the Cop27 UN climate summit. “We have an emergency on our hands.” Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - With voters increasingly fearful about fires, floods and extreme temperatures, can the Tories find a way back towards reality? On 8 November 1989, Margaret Thatcher gave a 4,000-word address to the United Nations general assembly in New York. It was an eloquent, urgent speech, book-ended with references to Charles Darwin and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and full of portents of looming climate disaster that we now know all too well: the melting of polar ice, the shrinking of the Amazon rainforest, and the prospect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and water shortages. In response, “squabbling over who is responsible or who should pay” was a self-evident path to catastrophe: what was needed, she told her audience, was “a vast international, co-operative effort”, with no refusers or deniers. “Every country will be affected,” she said, “and no one can opt out.” John Harris is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - The No 2-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs edged the Michigan State Spartans aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln at San Diego’s North Island Naval Air Station in the marquee matchup of college basketball’s opening weekend Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - * NBA commissioner says he met with Nets star earlier this week * LeBron James comes to former teammate’s defense on Twitter NBA commissioner Adam Silver has “no doubt” that suspended Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving is not antisemitic, he said at a conference on Thursday, while LeBron James took to Twitter to defend his former teammate whose status with the Nets remains a mystery. Those developments followed Nike co-founder Phil Knight telling CNBC, in an interview that aired earlier Thursday, that the relationship between the shoe giant and Irving is likely severed for good. Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - Pound surges and stock markets rebound as US consumer price index drops from 8.2% to 7.7% in October Stock markets rebounded and the pound surged on Thursday after the US reported a lower than expected inflation rate for October, fuelling hopes that the cost of living crisis may have peaked. Shares on the London exchange jumped after US inflation dropped from 8.2% in September to 7.7% in October, with the FTSE 100 rising 1% and the FTSE 250 gaining 3.9%. Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - President says he’ll announce decision in early 2023, while two-thirds of midterm voters said they wouldn’t like to see him run To those who do not want to see the US president run for re-election, Joe Biden has a message: “Watch me.” A self-assured Biden, riding high from Democrats’ history-defying showing in this year’s midterm elections, said at a post-election press conference that he intends to seek another term, but that it was ultimately a “family decision”. Continue reading...

THE GUARDIAN - * Wright, Scally, Johnson make World Cup roster for Qatar * Steffen, Arriola, Pepi, Pefok among cuts ahead of tournament Haji Wright, Joe Scally and Sean Johnson were among the 26 players selected for the United States’ World Cup squad bound for Qatar while Zack Steffen, Paul Arriola and Ricardo Pepi failed to make the cut. USA coach Gregg Berhalter revealed his final squad on Wednesday afternoon at a special televised event at Brooklyn Steel, less than two weeks before his side’s opener against Wales on 21 November at Al Rayyan’s Ahmad bin Ali Stadium. Continue reading...