Your Thursday Briefing

Xi rebuffs U.S. local weather efforts

John Kerry, the U.S. local weather envoy, had traveled to Beijing in hopes of persuading officers there to start out lowering China’s carbon emissions on a sooner timeline. But after three days of talks, Kerry emerged with none new agreements.

In truth, Xi Jinping, China’s president, insisted in a speech that his nation would pursue its targets to section out carbon dioxide air pollution at its personal tempo — and in its personal approach. China wouldn’t act “under the sway of others,” he mentioned.

Still, Kerry insisted he was not disillusioned. He mentioned that simply speaking confirmed progress. “We had very frank conversations, but we came here to break new ground,” he mentioned, including, “It is clear that we are going to need a little more work.”

Analysis: Xi’s feedback urged that tensions between the U.S. and China had been making it tough to work collectively on the local weather disaster.

Sweden’s embassy in Iraq is ready afire

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early at present and set fireplace to it, Reuters reported. Recent Quran burnings in Sweden have angered many Muslims and likewise drawn condemnation from Swedish authorities.

Footage shared on social media confirmed a constructing recognized because the embassy in flames and other people holding items of the constructing. The photos couldn’t be instantly verified. All embassy workers members had been protected, the Swedish Foreign Ministry mentioned, based on Reuters.

The protest was referred to as by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric. He had urged tons of of individuals in Iraq to protest exterior the Baghdad embassy in June, after a person tore up and burned the Quran exterior the central mosque in Stockholm on the primary day of the Muslim vacation of Eid al-Adha.

Tragedy earlier than the World Cup

Hours earlier than the Women’s World Cup was set to start, a gunman killed not less than two individuals in Auckland, New Zealand, and injured 5 others. The capturing occurred simply three miles from the stadium the place New Zealand is ready to open the competitors by going through off towards Norway.

The capturing occurred very near Team Norway’s resort, the place many gamers had been sleeping. A spokesman for the staff mentioned that “everything is calm” and that “preparations are going as normal.” The staff’s captain, Maren Mjelde, mentioned the staff had “felt safe the whole time.”

Details: The police mentioned the gunman had been killed, and the commissioner mentioned his motive was believed to have been “connected to his work at the site.” Armed with a shotgun, he had stormed a constructing underneath building.

Other upcoming matches: Australia, the opposite host nation, will face Ireland. Then, Nigeria performs Canada. Here’s a schedule of the matches.

An damage epidemic: Knee issues are sidelining high gamers. Experts can’t work out why, or the right way to repair it.

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Golden retrievers and their human followers come to the Scottish Highlands each 5 years to have fun the breed’s founding. This was the biggest gathering but: 488 canine confirmed up.

One man, whose final golden had simply died, confirmed up anyway. “I’m an addict,” he mentioned, “and this is where I come to get me fix.”

Lives lived: Dermot Doran, an Irish priest, was a linchpin of the Biafran airlift in Nigeria. It was one of many largest-ever civilian humanitarian efforts. He died at 88 earlier this yr.

SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC

An interview with Wayne Rooney: The former England striker opens as much as David Ornstein on his managerial goals, ideas on Manchester United and hopes for U.S. soccer.

Just Stop Oil’s warfare on sports activities: How protests over the local weather disaster and different issues have interrupted sporting occasions across the globe prior to now yr.

Planning to raise the Claret Jug once more: Cameron Smith feels able to defend the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool after decamping to LIV Golf.

ARTS AND IDEAS

A giant swim to have fun a cleanup

The Hudson River, which runs from the Adirondack Mountains to New York City, could possibly be harmful to people: There’s sewage and rats that would result in infections, and mercury may poison individuals.

But it was a lot worse. And Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer, plans to swim the entire waterway to have fun the river’s regular revival — in only a Speedo, a cap and goggles.

During his monthlong swim, Pugh is trying to elevate consciousness about how poisonous waterways will be cleaned up. He desires to show to individuals alongside the Nile, the Seine, the Yangtze or the River Thames that their river will be saved, too.

“I’ve been looking for a river for many, many years which could tell the story about all rivers,” he mentioned. “And always, every single time, it comes back to the Hudson.”

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