While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 16

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Marathon UN climate talks in Madrid fail to achieve progress A marathon United Nations summit wrapped up on Sunday with little to show, squeezing hard-earned compromises from countries over a global warming battle plan that fell well short of what science says is needed to tackle the climate crisis.

But the final declaration only called on the"urgent need" to cut planet-heating greenhouse gases in line with the goals of the landmark 2015 Paris climate change accord.The United States secretly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New York Times reported Sunday.

First, the Conservative leader must make good on his often-repeated promise to"get Brexit done" and then turn to realising another priority - to increase funding into Britain's much loved but struggling public health service, a pledge he plans to enshrine in law.

 

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