Latest news

 

Rishi Sunak Justin Tallis / AP  

The climate threat|Global challenges 

"Unacceptable costs" lower Sunak's climate ambition  

The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lowers the country's climate ambitions, where the goal was net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Among other things, he brings forward the ban on gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, which was planned to come into force in 2030, by five years. 

Sunak believes that it is not reasonable for the British government to impose "unacceptable costs" on households to reduce emissions.  

According to the Tory leader, there is an opportunity to adopt a more "pragmatic, proportionate and realistic" approach to reach the climate goal.  

Alejandro Giammattei Richard Drew / AP  

The elections in Guatemala  

The outgoing president promises to relinquish power Outgoing 

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is dismissing concerns that he will not hand over power to his successor Bernardo Arévalo voluntarily. He says this to the UN General Assembly after Brazilian President Lula da Silva, in the same lectern, warned of a coup in the Central American country. 

- I will hand over power to the person who won the election, he says according to Al Jazeera.  

Giammattei also said that the outside world does not need to mediate in the election. Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo won the election in mid-August and has claimed he was prevented from taking office  

Children sleep in a basement in Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh as the city is attacked by Azerbaijan. Siranush Sargsyan / AP  

The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh  

Analysis: In practice, ethnic cleansing awaits  

The ceasefire is effectively a surrender for Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. This is written by Swedish Yles Gustaf Antell. The condition for Azerbaijan to agree to a ceasefire was that the separatists accept a complete military disarmament.  

"How large the forces of the separatists are is unknown, but Azerbaijan's military strength proved to be overwhelmingly superior already within a few hours on Tuesday," he writes. 

According to DN's Anna-Lena Laurén, it is clear that Baku's goal is to assimilate Nagorno-Karabakh with the rest of Azerbaijan. The ethnic Armenians living there will be forced to leave unless they voluntarily become citizens.  

"In practice, ethnic cleansing," writes Laurén.  

Both she and The Guardian's Pjotr Sauer note that the development of events is a result of Armenia's pro-Western Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian increasingly criticizing his ally Moscow and Putin. 

Among other things, American soldiers have practiced in Armenia and Pashinian's wife Anna Hakobjan has visited Kyiv, which will continue to have tangible consequences in Yerevan, according to Sauer.