News Headlines - 13 December 2020
The iPhone manufacturing plant, run by Taiwan-based tech giant Wistron Corporation at Narsapura (around 60 km from Bengaluru in Karnataka) came under attack on Saturday from its employees over payment of salaries.
A majority of the nearly 2,000 employees, who were exiting the facility after completing their night-shift, went on a rampage destroying the company’s furniture, assembly units and even attempted to set fire to vehicles.
▽Indonesia arrests suspected terror leader on run since Bali bombings
Indonesian police have arrested a man believed to be the military leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network who has eluded capture since 2003, authorities said.
Aris Sumarsono, known as Zulkarnaen, was arrested late on Thursday by counterterrorism police without resistance in a raid at a house in East Lampung district on Sumatra island, said National Police spokesperson Ahmad Ramadhan.
Zulkarnaen is suspected of being involved in the making of bombs used in a series of attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and a 2003 attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, that killed 12, Ramadhan said.
▽Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past | The Guardian
A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his family’s part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first slave-worked sugar plantation in the British empire almost 400 years ago.
The MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax, has inherited the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Barbados from his father, inquiries by the Observer have established. His father died in 2017. Drax has not yet declared the land or its properties in the parliamentary register of members’ interests.
▽Climate change: EU leaders set 55% target for CO2 emissions cut - BBC News
EU leaders have agreed on a more ambitious goal for cutting greenhouse gases - reducing them by 55% by 2030, rather than 40%.
The new target was reached after difficult all-night talks in Brussels.
Poland, heavily reliant on coal, won a pledge of EU funding to help it transition to clean energy.
The EU Commission will draw up detailed plans for all 27 member states to contribute to the 55% target, measured against 1990 CO2 emission levels.
▽U.K. Ends Support for Fossil Fuels Abroad-With Some Exceptions | Time
The U.K. government will end taxpayer-funded support for fossil fuel projects in other countries, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Friday, in the hopes of setting a global example as the country prepares to host a key UN climate summit next year.
