Humanity misses climate target, booking.com scam ads, and Belfast cafe hit by US sanctions

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A protest in Germany demonstrates the symbolic destruction of the 1.5 degree limit set in the Paris Climate Agreement. Photograph: EPA The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost, United Nations environment chiefs have conceded.

More than half of primary school pupils and two-thirds of secondary students refused to go to school at least once last year for reasons including anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and problems with friendships,One of Europe’s leading consumer watchdogs, Which? magazine, was able to list 10 Downing Street as a holiday rental on booking.com and accept payments from people keen to stay in the UK prime minister’s home. La bonhomie is back: Macron arrives in Britain bearing giftsWhy almost all Phoenix Park drivers break the speed limitMiss You: The Dublin Fringe Festival show inspired by Ireland’s missing womenWill the upcoming budget drive inflation and increase costs for Irish households?

Cancer now ‘more survivable’; Bloomfield Hospital patient mistreatment; and new storm namesPodcast: Gambling with crypto; deer in Phoenix Park; and what scientists learn from the eclipseWhat next for Kinahan cartel, lack of creche places and issues with Re-Turn schemeGP and elderly mother awarded €12k over Dundrum clinic receptionist’s ‘disrespectful’ conductMost primary and secondary students refused to go to school at least once last yearLa bonhomie is back: Macron arrives in Britain bearing giftsLarge landholding beside the K Club in Kildare seeking €2.25mKevin Rowland: ‘I wish I’d stuck to my guns more, not be influenced by people who didn’t get it’

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