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The president often had a weak, raspy voice during his first debate against Trump, in what Democrats had hoped would be a turning point in the race.

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"This is a welcome step towards a safer, fairer future," said the climate campaigner who brought the legal challenge.

"This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express," said the father of two children killed in the Israeli strike.

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Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field

Scientists reclassify Humboldt glacier, also known as La Corona, after it melted faster than expected

Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrunk so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.

It is thought Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.

The country had been home to six glaciers in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range, which lies at about 5,000m above sea level. Five of the glaciers had disappeared by 2011, leaving just the Humboldt glacier, also known as La Corona, close to the country’s second highest mountain, Pico Humboldt.

The Humboldt glacier was projected to last at least another decade, but scientists had been unable to monitor the site for a few years due to political turmoil in the country.

Now assessments have found the glacier melted much faster than expected, and had shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares. As a result, its classification was downgraded from glacier to ice field.

Reminder: Tomorrow is Land Day

On March 30, 1976, Palestinians rose up in unified protest against the theft of their lands and livelihood and protesting the theft of 21 thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee. The Israeli occupation forces killed 6 Palestinians in response.

Since then, March 30 has become known as Land Day. It is commemorated each year to mobilize against further theft of Palestinian land and to re-assert the unequivocal right of return for Palestinians to their lands: the source of our livelihoods and our labor.

theguardian.com

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