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South Africa hails deal to end reliance on coal

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South Africa is set to  https://photopeach.com/user/ghjuriya receive $8.5bn (£6.2bn) to help end its reliance on coal in a deal announced at the COP26 climate summit. President Cyril Ramaphosa has called it a  https://www.classifiedads.com/office_services/d8xfcr50v3959 "watershed moment". The country is  https://www.expatriates.com/cls/49134695.html currently a major emitter of greenhouse gases as a result of its addiction to coal, which it uses to generate electricity. This deal, funded by wealthier nations, could have both global and local implications. The vast scale of the coal operation run by the country's state power company Eskom makes South Africa the 12th biggest carbon dioxide emitter in the world,  https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/httpswww-todaykhoe-comzh-164830 according to the Global Carbon Atlas. Some of those at  http://forum.zidoo.tv/index.php?members/gh-juriya.92058/ the heart of South Africa's coal count...

Texas high school shooting leaves four injured, gunman arrested

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The school welcomes just under 2,000 students in this city located between Dallas and Fort Worth, in the north of the state. A new drama touches the United States . Four people were injured Wednesday October 6 in a shooting at a high school in Texas, when a student opened fire following a fight with another student before surrendering to the police a few hours after the fact, local police said . "We are at the scene of a shooting at high school Timberview" said  local police on Twitter  (English article). Three people were taken to hospital, two of them with gunshot wounds, Kevin Kolbye, deputy police chief of Arlington, the city where the incidents took place, told a press conference. He did not specify the severity of these injuries. The fourth, a pregnant woman, was treated on site for minor injuries. Three students among the victims Among the victims, three are students and the fourth is older, he added, without being able to say if it was a teacher or a member of the sta...