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#COP26: The world has not done nearly enough to tackle the climate crisis, and curbing rising temperatures will be hard – but humanity has done hard things before, Barack Obama said at the Cop26 summit.
#GERMANY: Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a positive verdict on the influx of migrants to Germany in 2015 and 2016 as she prepares to step down, saying: “We managed it.”
#NICARAGUA: Daniel Ortega won a fourth consecutive presidential term in elections denounced by the United States as a “sham,” with the long-term Nicaraguan leader deriding his opponents – most of them jailed or in exile – as “terrorists”.
Michael Collins’ family today presented the State with the Irish revolutionary’s diaries from the years 1918-1922.
“These diaries tell the story of one of the most turbulent periods in our history,” said Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the event at Woodfield, the house where Michael Collins was born in Clonakilty, Co. Cork.
He added: “There are many new discoveries that will be revealed through the diaries which will now become part of the national collection at the National Archives.”
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