The prime minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern announced
her resignation today for some personal reasons. The popular leader said that she
no more has the energy required to fulfil her duties as the prime minister. According
to a report by CNN, many citizens express shock and disbelief concerning
Ardern's decision.
The data acquired by the Council on Foreign Relations shows
that New Zealand is one such country which has had the most elected female
heads of state and/or government after 1946. Before Jacinda Ardern, Jenny
Shipley of the National Party led the country between 1997 and 1999, followed
by Helen Clark of the Labour between 1999 and 2008.
In a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), it is declared that 2022 was the sixth warmest year on
record (since 1880), as planet Earth continued its worrying warming trend. According
to research conducted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information,
regular land and ocean surface temperature of Earth in 2022 was recorded at 0.86
degrees Celsius (1.55 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average of
13.9 degrees Celsius (57.0 degrees Fahrenheit),
Rare earth elements (REE) are metals that have many uses in
current key technologies, such as cell phone screens, wind turbines and even
are used for electric motors. As the infographic shows, any one in need any of
the 17 chemical elements will have a tough job sourcing them from anywhere but
China. The People's Republic of China has the world's largest reserves of these
not so rare metals.
Since the war started in Ukraine, there have been reductions
in Russian gas supplies and to address this issue, the countries of European
Union had set a goal of reducing their natural gas consumption by 15 percent
between August 2022 and March 2023 compared to the average of the past five
years. In December, Eurostat announced that the EU is on track with that goal,
with gas consumption in the EU-27 falling by about 20 percent over the
August-November period (compared to the 2017-2021 average).
Following up on the highest-grossing movie of all time was
always going to be a difficult task. This task becomes even more intimidating because
of the difficult circumstances in the post-pandemic world. The winner of Multiple
Academy Award, James Cameron and the director of two of the three
highest-grossing movies ever, is not one to be fearful of a challenge, though,
and so, after multiple delays and three years of shooting, "Avatar: The
Way of Water" premiered in London on December 6, 2022.
Thousands of mourners gathered from all around the world on
January 5th, in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican to pay their
respects to Pope Benedict XVI as he was laid to rest. Where popes usually live
out their role to the end of the days, Benedict was the first pontiff in 600
years to step down as head of the Catholic Church. The funeral service of Benedict
was led by His successor, Argentinian Pope Francis.
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