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Washington (AFP) - The US presidential election will pose the greatest political risk to the world in 2024 no matter who wins, with institutions of the most powerful democracy certain to take a beating, the Eurasia Group said Monday. In an annual report, the political risk consultancy said that the November 5 election "will test American democracy to a degree the nation hasn't experienced in 150 years," a reference to the country's civil war. "The United States is already the world's most divided and dysfunctional advanced industrial democracy. The 2024 election will exacerbate this problem no...
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Paris (AFP) - Major industrial and economic centres in China and the United States are among the most vulnerable regions in the world to the increasingly destructive power of climate change-driven weather extremes, according to a comprehensive analysis Monday. The new findings underscore the urgent need for governments to focus on decarbonisation and adaptation measures such as flood-proofing -- and show the economic fallout from climate change could be grave and widespread. Nine of the top 10 most at-risk regions are in China, with two of the country's largest sub-national economies -- Jiang...
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Paris (AFP) - From small island states to urbanised powerhouses, every country on Earth faces "multiplying and intensifying" threats to human health as climate change renders future pandemics and system collapses ever more likely, a major study concluded on Thursday. A deadly mix of extreme heat, air pollution and intense farming are combining to produce the "worst outlook for public health our generation has seen", according to the Lancet's fifth annual report on the links between health and climate. The assessment showed that the last two decades have seen a 54 percent increase in heat-rela...
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Paris (AFP) - Disruptions to health services due to the pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at risk worldwide, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that Covid-19 could reverse decades of progress in reducing child mortality.The past 30 years have seen remarkable strides forward in preventing or treating causes of infant deaths including premature births and pneumonia. New mortality estimates published by the UN's children's fund UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group found that 2019 saw the lowest number of global under-five deaths on record. Last ye...
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