🇪🇺EU Clinches Deal to Overhaul Bloc's Carbon Market

▪️The new agreement is part of the EU's efforts to help the global community fight climate change and achieve a target of slashing net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.

▪️The EU has rolled out a provisional deal on bolstering its carbon market, the bloc's main policy tool to combat global warming, the Czech EU presidency and the European Council announced on Sunday.

▪️The agreement, which has yet to be formally adopted by the European Parliament, also obliges the 27 EU member states to accelerate the pace for their companies, from power producers to steelmakers, to reduce pollution.

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❗️Russian MoD’s briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 25 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed an armored carrier and two other vehicles near Kupyansk;

▪️Russian troops eliminated or wounded up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed one tank and two pick-up trucks;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and three other vehicles near Donetsk;

▪️Russian troops eliminated or wounded up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed an armored combat vehicle and three other vehicles in the Zaporozhye region and in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces hit 109 Ukrainian units at their firing positions;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a US-made AN/TPQ-36 radar station in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed one Ukrainian UAV, as well as intercepted nine HIMARS rockets.

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Japanese Society Opposes Government's Push For Military Build-Up

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida intends to dramatically increase his country's defense budget. However, roughly 65% of the Japanese disapprove of Prime Minister Kishida's plans to raise taxes to cover the rising budget, a local media poll shows. According to the poll, only 30% support this idea.

Plans to partially divert funds from the restoration of regions affected by the tsunami and earthquake of 2011 to the defense budget caused particular disapproval. The poll shows that 74.5% of citizens opposed this plan.

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🇩🇪Germany has adopted a package of measures to curb illegal immigration and is cooperating on the issue with neighboring Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said

💬"We have long had a whole set of countermeasures, both European and national. I am in close contact with my Austrian and Czech colleagues. Both countries have started to implement border control with Slovakia," Faeser told German press, when asked if she was seeking to stem the flow of illegal immigration.

The minister also noted that Germany extended temporary stationary control on the Austrian border and boosted monitoring on its border with the Czech Republic.

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German Military Experiencing Technical Issues With Puma Fighting Vehicles, Reports Say

The German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, detected multiple technical issues with the Puma infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), German press reported on Sunday, citing a letter by an army commander Ruprecht von Butler.

Puma IFVs were to be used by the NATO Response Force, according to the newspaper. However, a shooting and combat test showed that all 18 Pumas deployed were not combat-ready, the report said. The electronics of high-tech vehicles proved to be especially vulnerable, the letter read.

"Of the 18 [Puma] infantry fighting vehicles the unit began service with, during the last eight days of training, the readiness dropped to 0 infantry fighting vehicles," the letter said, according to the report.

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Impeachment Trials & Tribulations of Donald Trump

Both attempts by the US House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump were ultimately futile, as he was acquitted by the Senate twice. The first attempt took place in 2019, and the second in 2021, and both failed because they could not get enough votes.

So what happened to these impeachment attempts?

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⚡️⚽️ Lionel Messi scored a penalty kick after Ousmane Dembele's foul on Angel Di Maria. One big step for 🇦🇷 towards the trophy?

🇦🇷⚽️ Di Maria scores from Alexis Mac Allister's pass: Argentina leads 2-0!

Gravity Makes You Age Slower, Scientists Argue

One of the implications of general relativity theory means that time runs faster in places with low gravity and slower in places with high gravity. Scientists have claimed that gravity slows time and makes you age slower.

"Gravity makes us age slower, in a relative term. Compared to someone not near any massive object, we are aging more slowly by a very tiny amount. In fact, for that someone, the whole world around us evolves more slowly under the effect of gravity," stated James Chin-wen Chou from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado.

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🇦🇷 2-2 🇫🇷 Mbappé scored France’s first goal from a penalty kick. And immediately after that Kylian scored the second!

🇦🇷 3-2 🇫🇷 Messi scores in the second extra time! Is it over for France?

3-3 🇫🇷 Mbappé scores from the penalty spot. Let's go to penalties!

🇦🇷 Argentina won the 2022 World Cup

⚽️ The match seemed to be an easy win for Argentina after the first half, but France evened the score closer to the end of the second half. In the second part of extra time, both teams scored one goal. In the penalty shootout, Argentina won with the score 4:2.

US Teacher Allegedly Forced to Resign After Rejecting Students' 'Preferred Pronouns'

A former Ohio school teacher has filed a lawsuit over the circumstances of her resignation. Vivian Geraghty, who resigned in August, claims that she quit her job after two students asked her to use names aligned “with their new gender identities rather than their legal names.”

As the students’ request was apparently in line with the school’s policy that stipulates teachers use students’ preferred pronouns, Geraghty, who describes herself as Christian, reached out to the principal in a bid to reach “a solution that would allow her to continue teaching without violating her religious beliefs and constitutional rights.”

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Two Deep Space Super-Earths Might Be Mostly Water

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal led by Caroline Piaulet has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf may be "water worlds" - planets with a significant portion of their material made up of H20.

The exoplanets are 218 light years away in the Lyra constellation and do not resemble any of the planets in our solar system.

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