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The EU should seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, its climate commissioner says, proposing a new interim target towards making the bloc carbon neutral in 2050. "Based on the best available science, and a detailed impact assessment, we are recommending that the 2040 target should be a 90 percent emission cut" compared to 1990 levels, says commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, calling for a "fair transition" that will allow EU businesses to thrive. SOUNDBITE
Dans un pays où l'été peut durer plusieurs années et l'hiver toute une vie, des forces sinistres et surnaturelles se pressent aux portes du Royaume des Sept Couronnes. Pendant ce temps, complots et rivalités se jouent sur le continent pour s'emparer du Trône de Fer, le symbole du pouvoir absolu.
US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says at the administration's daily press briefing. SOUNDBITE
A European Commission spokesperson says the EU executive is suing British-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca to force it to deliver 90 million more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine before July. SOUNDBITE
90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan has become the first person in the world to receive the officially-licenced Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, at a hospital in Coventry. IMAGES of Margaret filmed the day before her vaccination
Streets are busy with people going about their daily business in Sao Paulo's 25 de Março neighbourhood as the country continues to ease lockdown measures and registers record daily numbers of deaths from COVID-19, surging past 90,000. IMAGES