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Kyiv struggles to restore heat and power after Russian strikes; oil depot fire reported in Russia as talks eyed in UAE As of this morning, 1,940 apartment buildings in Ukraine’s capital were still without heating after Russia’s latest air assault, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, underscoring the strain on the city’s energy grid as temperatures remain well below freezing. Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app that crews were reconnecting buildings for the second time this month after an earlier Jan. 9 barrage forced…

Climate alarms are sounding — but the world is not answering fast enough When António Guterres warned delegates in Geneva this week that the planet is being pushed “to the brink,” he was not only recounting a litany of scientific milestones — every one of the last ten years the hottest on record, ocean heat breaking records, and ecosystems collapsing — he was issuing a practical plea: invest in the systems that give people time to get out of harm’s way. The United Nations secretary-general framed an urgent, solvable part…