In the headlines
Israel’s military says it is expanding its ground operation into “all areas” of Gaza. Its forces are pushing into the south of the Palestinian enclave, where more than a million people fled – on Israel’s advice – at the start of the war. The COP28 president has claimed there is “no science” which shows that phasing out fossil fuels is needed to limit global warming to 1.5C, says The Guardian. Sultan Al Jaber, who also heads the United Arab Emirates’s state oil company, told a virtual event that abandoning oil and gas entirely would “take the world back into caves”. The UK’s only giant pandas are leaving for China today after 12 years in Scotland. Yang Guang and Tian Tian (pictured), who have been the star attractions at Edinburgh Zoo since their arrival in 2011, are heading home after the lease agreement to keep them ended. 🐼😢