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Trump Says Climate Change Not a Hoax But Unsure of Causes

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10/15/2018

10/15/2018

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Trump Says Climate Change Not a Hoax But Unsure of Causes

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump walked back his previous claims that climate change was a hoax but cast doubt on its sources and suggested the climate will “change back again”—though he did not elaborate on how.

During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” program, the president claimed that climate scientists have a “very big political agenda.”

The comments come a week after a team of Nobel prize-winning scientists released a dire U.N. report warning of drastic impacts of climate change if the world didn’t take dramatic steps to curb carbon emissions by 2030. The scientists said the consequences of not making such changes would be dire: including significant economic impacts, rising ocean temperatures and acidity, and deadlier natural disasters.

In 2017, Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the global Paris climate agreement aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

Turkey: Two weeks after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are set to begin a joint “inspection” of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. After repeated requests, the Saudis have finally granted Turkish investigators access to the building. Turkish officials have claimed they have evidence that Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was killed inside the Saudi consulate—a charge that Riyadh denies.

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AFRICA

•  Young Liberian girls educated at a school run by a prominent U.S. charity were raped and abused, an investigation by Propublica and TIME found.

•  Somalia has executed a man implicated in an attack that killed over 600 people one year ago—the country’s deadliest bombing ever.

•  The U.N. Human Rights Council faced criticism for electing new member countries known for human rights abuses, including Eritrea and Cameroon.

AMERICAS

•  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra saw his public approval ratings increase by 16 points—to 61 percent—following his threats to dissolve Congress unless it passed anti-corruption laws.

•  Pope Francis granted sainthood to Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by right-wing death squads in 1980 as he conducted mass.

•  Nicaraguan authorities arrested 26 people ahead of a planned protest against President Manuel Ortega.

ASIA

•  At least 20 people, including 11 schoolchildren, were killed in mudslides in Indonesia’s North Sumatra.

•  U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis will visit Vietnam this week as tensions with China escalate.

•  In Nepal, nine climbers were killed at their base camp in the Himalaya mountains during a storm.

EUROPE

•  British and European Union negotiators said they have still have unresolved issues following new Brexit talks in Brussels.

•  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was freed after 50 days in prison for organizing unapproved protests.

•  Thirteen people were killed when flash floods hit southwest France.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Aid groups condemned the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen for continued airstrikes that “routinely” kill civilians.

•  At least 106 chemical weapons attacks have occured in Syria since 2014.

•  The United Arab Emirates has detained a British doctoral student for five months without explanation, according to the Times of London.

- By Robbie Gramer

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