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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read

#BREAKING Climate change the biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites: IUCN

#BREAKING 2020 on course to be one of the three hottest years ever recorded: UN

#UPDATE Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday
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#UPDATE The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are set to make up all six of the hottest years since modern records began in 1850, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in its provisional 2020 State of the Global Climate report
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#BREAKING EU chief urges members to stay united to 'last second' of Brexit talks

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#UPDATE Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon denied bail on fraud charge

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#BREAKING Former French president Giscard d'Estaing has died, entourage says

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#BREAKING Barnier warns can't guarantee Brexit deal: EU diplomats

#BREAKING UK PM Johnson 'optimistic' of EU deal but ready to cope without: aide

#UPDATE With intensive talks in London going down to the wire, the Downing Street comments came as chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned he could not guarantee a deal with Britain and that the next few days will be crucial
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#BREAKING UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for rollout from 'next week'

#BREAKING UK vaccine approval 'historic moment' in Covid-19 battle: Pfizer CEO

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Britain has become the first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for general use

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