• News - Hottest Year on Record, Syria's Transition, Biden Migrant Detention Facilities

  • Dec 13 2024
  • Length: 44 mins
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News - Hottest Year on Record, Syria's Transition, Biden Migrant Detention Facilities

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  • The news roundup is once again delivered to your temporal lobe. This week: 2024 is officially the hottest year on record (0:57), particularly because the Arctic is no longer a carbon sink, but rather a net carbon emitter (2:40); regarding the situation in Syria, an update on the political transition (5:16), renewed fighting between the SDF and Turkish proxies (10:56), and Israel makes a land grab for an extended "buffer zone" (15:01); in Israel-Palestine, Hamas makes a major ceasefire concession (18:22); rebels in Myanmar seize the Bangladesh border (21:29) while other factions call for a ceasefire (22:51); President Yoon of South Korea survives his first impeachment vote and chaos ensues (24:30); Ethiopia and Somalia strike a deal to settle their recent tensions (30:14); in Russia-Ukraine, Trump's demand for a ceasefire panics Zelenskyy (33:22); Romania's constitutional court annuls the first round of its presidential election (37:14); an armed group commits a massacre in Haiti (40:25); and the Biden administration is building migrant detention facilities (42:00). Subscribe today and check out our in-depth specials on stories from this week: South Korea, Martial Law, and President Yoon w/ Eun A Jo The Fall of Bashar Al-Assad w/ Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
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