Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol
Quick Guide What is methanol poisoning and how do you recognise it? Show What is methanol poisoning? Methanol symptoms often do not manifest until 12-24 hours after ingestion. Unlike a hangover, methanol symptoms will typically grow worse over time. “This is a hidden crisis,” said Knut Erik Hovda, a doctor and professor at the University of Oslo, and an international expert on methanol poisoning outbreaks.
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November 29, 2025 21:33 UTC
‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures
“In 2009, you still had people who denied climate change,” Braschler recalls. Sixteen years later, climate change is no longer up for debate; the urgent discussions now revolve around solutions. Lost their home in the town of ErftstadtChristian: “I didn’t grasp what was happening until we were outside, trying to swim for safety. In recent years, the effects of climate change have further fuelled migration. Guatemala ranks ninth in the world for level of risk to the effects of climate change.
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November 29, 2025 16:30 UTC
The week around the world in 20 pictures
The week around the world in 20 picturesThe Hong Kong tower block fire, Russian drone strikes in Kharkiv, floods in Thailand and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsFire spread across several residential towers in the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on Wednesday. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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November 29, 2025 13:43 UTC
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data, the scientists say. “When we compare the total terrestrial water storage data with climate datasets, the trends broadly correlate,” said Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction at UCL. It is a critical resource: across member states, groundwater accounted for 62% of the total public water supply and 33% of agricultural water demands during 2022. A spokesperson for the European Commission said its water resilience strategy “aims to help member states adapt their water resource management to climate change and to address man-made pressures”. In Iran, Tehran is closing in on “day zero” when no tap water is available, and water rationing is being planned.
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November 29, 2025 13:31 UTC
First Thing: Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries”, a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington DC in an attack that authorities suspect was carried out by an Afghan national. It was unclear how he would carry out such a pause, as his previous attempts have been challenged by the courts and Congress. Authorities suspect the shooting was carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the US in September 2021 after the country’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He did not identify the countries he intended to target or specify what he meant by the phrase. Sign upSign up for the US morning briefingFirst Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday.
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November 29, 2025 10:03 UTC
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries” a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington DC in an attack that has become a political flashpoint in the president’s ongoing crackdown on immigration. Earlier in the night, Trump announced the death of Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two national guard members shot in the attack close to the White House on Wednesday. A second national guard member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president. National guard troops have been positioned across Washington DC since August, when the Trump administration declared a “crime emergency” and ordered them in to support federal and local law enforcement. Soon after the shooting on Wednesday, Trump said he would send 500 more national guard troops to Washington DC.
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November 29, 2025 08:56 UTC
Jetstar cancels 90 domestic flights across Australia after global Airbus A320 recall
Jetstar has grounded some of its Airbus fleet in Australia and cancelled domestic and international flights after the aerospace manufacturer ordered software changes to thousands of its A320 planes following a mid-air incident. Ninety Jetstar flights were affected on Saturday with disruption expected to continue until Sunday, the airline’s head of flying operations, Tyrone Simes, told reporters at Melbourne airport. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, Jetstar said 20 of the 34 affected aircraft were ready to return to service. To respond to a precautionary action from Airbus, we have cancelled some Jetstar Airways flights,” the airline said. Two Jetstar flights into Perth and two departures from the same airport were cancelled.
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November 29, 2025 08:55 UTC
Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes, disrupting global travel
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the main certifying authority for A320 aircraft, issued the instruction on Friday night as a precautionary action, saying that “safety is paramount”. The US Federal Aviation Administration also issued an emergency airworthiness directive for certain Airbus planes, requiring the aircraft to replace or modify specific software. At the time Airbus issued its bulletin to the plane’s more than 350 operators, about 3,000 A320-family jets were in the air. The world’s largest A320 operator, American Airlines, said 209 of its 480 A320 aircraft would need the fix. The carrier, along with affiliates such as Peach Aviation, is the biggest operator in Japan of single-aisle Airbus aircraft, including the A320.
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November 29, 2025 08:36 UTC
Barnaby Joyce’s exit from the Nationals ‘almost a Greek tragedy’, Michael McCormack says – as it happened
Share Updated at 06.13 GMT13h ago 05.24 GMT Nationals MP likens Barnaby Joyce's departure to 'Greek tragedy' The Nationals MP Michael McCormack is on the ABC and has likened Barnaby Joyce’s departure from the party and “almost a Greek tragedy”. You mention the word tragedy, it is almost a Greek tragedy, isn’t it? View image in fullscreen Barnaby Joyce (right) with Nationals MPs Michael McCormack and Flynn Colin Boyce in parliament on Thursday. Share Updated at 04.24 GMT14h ago 04.04 GMT Nick Visser That’s all from me. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP Share Updated at 04.55 GMT
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November 28, 2025 18:01 UTC
After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
View image in fullscreen Paul Brown, former environment correspondent of the Guardian, 1991. Photograph: Don McPhee/The GuardianAs I came back, Thatcher was in New York warning the UN about the dangers of climate change. But this pattern of politicians learning the inconvenient truths of climate change and then falling short in the actions required to solve the problem has continued ever since. That summit saw the setup of the climate change convention, the biodiversity convention and much else, although it failed to do enough to protect forests. But as the decade progressed, the Conservatives were ousted in 1997 and then, as John Prescott became environment secretary, the environment news kept moving up the agenda.
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November 28, 2025 18:00 UTC
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilisers. They discovered that Africa gained carbon between 2007 and 2010, but since then widespread forest loss has tipped the balance so the continent is contributing more CO 2 into the atmosphere. The authors said the results show that urgent action is needed to stop forest loss or the world risks losing one of its most important natural carbon buffers. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. after newsletter promotion“Policymakers ought to respond by putting better safeguards in place to protect the world’s tropical forests,” Balzter said.
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November 28, 2025 17:30 UTC
Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media
He repeatedly accused them of breaking their vows of obedience, a claim the nuns denied. View image in fullscreen The three nuns have been helped by local supporters and former pupils since returning to Goldenstein Castle in Elsbethen. Church officials have reportedly said the nuns will be provided with adequate medical care and nursing help, and a priest would be at their disposal to serve regular mass. View image in fullscreen Sister Bernadette leads prayers attended by supporters and former pupils in the chapel at Goldenstein. “Now it’s up to the sisters,” Harald Schiffl, a spokesperson for Grasl, told the Austrian news agency APA.
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November 28, 2025 16:54 UTC
Putin insists Ukraine has to surrender territory for any deal to be possible
Vladimir Putin has said that the outline of a draft peace plan discussed by the US and Ukraine could serve as a basis for future negotiations to end the war – but insisted Ukraine would have to surrender territory for any deal to be possible. Speaking to reporters during a working visit to Kyrgyzstan, Putin said Russia would halt its offensive only if Ukrainian forces withdrew from unspecified areas currently under Kyiv’s control. They would require Ukraine to voluntarily cede territory that Moscow has failed to seize militarily. He told the US magazine the Atlantic: “As long as Zelenskyy is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory.”
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November 28, 2025 16:43 UTC
Canada minister resigns from cabinet over Carney’s controversial oil pipeline deal
Mark Carney has agreed an energy deal with Alberta centred on plans for a new heavy oil pipeline reaching from the province’s oil sands to the Pacific coast, a politically volatile project that is expected to face stiff opposition. The move proved politically damaging within hours, with the minister of Canadian culture, Steven Guilbeault, who is the former environment minister, announcing he would leave cabinet. He said the agreement “sets the state for an industrial transformation” and involved not just a pipeline, but nuclear power and datacentres. Carney’s government will exempt a possible pipeline project from the existing coastal oil tanker moratorium and emissions cap. Even before Carney and Smith made their announcement, however, First Nations said any new pipeline was effectively dead on arrival.
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November 28, 2025 16:35 UTC
US will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, reports say
For the first time since 1988, the US government will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, according to reports. But they should “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging”. “An awareness day is not a strategy,” a state department spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, told the New York Times. World Aids Day is usually when the state department shares Pepfar data about cumulative and annual progress with Congress. The state department has not yet replied to a request for comment.
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November 28, 2025 15:25 UTC