Hello Australia! - The Paris Climate Talks finally have a foundation to build upon - Iraq is ordering Turkish troops out of the country - Searchers say theyt've found an enormous gold treasure in a shipwreck - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
Delegates at the COP21 climate talks in Paris now have a draft to work with, beginning on Monday. Ministers from 195 gathered nations will take the 48-page document (.pdf link) and try to reach an accord by the end of the week on cutting greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. it took four years of talks to get to the blueprint, but French climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana says there is a lot of work to do: "This text marks the will of all to reach an agreement. We are not at the end of the route. Major political issues are yet to be resolved."
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be smoothing over hurt feelings in Paris, from her remarks that seemed to belittle nations that will be hardest hit by rising sea levels - Specifically, she'll meet with the Minister from the Marshall Islands after mocking the opposition for stating that one of the Islands has already disappeared. It turned out that Bishop was thinking of another island, but it recalled an earlier incident in which Minister Peter Dutton was caught on an open microphone making fun of the problems that island nations with have with the rising ocean. "Australia has still not learned they should not mess with the islands and make jokes about the islands and climate change," said Marshall islands FM Tony de Brum.
Three young female suicide bombers killed at least 15 people on an island in Lake Chad, where many Nigerians had fled to escape Boko Haram's violence. The injured number at least 130. Chadian police suspect Boko Haram, whose insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people over six years.
Baghdad is ordering Turkey to immediately withdraw its forces from Mosul in the north of Iraq, where the office of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Turkey had deployed forces without his government's consent. "We have confirmation that Turkish forces, numbering about one armored regiment with a number of tanks and artillery, entered Iraqi territory.. allegedly to train Iraqi groups, without a request or authorization from Iraqi federal authorities," read the statement. That "group" appears to be a reference of the Kurdish Peshmerga, which has better relations with Turkey than the Syrian Kurds.
As many as 30 workers are feared dead after a blast and fire on an oil rig in the Caspian Sea. Another 32 people were rescued according to Azerbaijan’s state energy firm Socar. Azerbaijan is strategically located between Russia and Iran, and plays a major role in moving Caspian Sea energy reserves to the west through pipelines to Turkey - bypassing Russia.
Twice last week, the Thailand printer of the International New York Times blanked out articles that might be embarrassing for the military junta that stole democracy and now runs the country. On Tuesday, the publisher censored an article on the lackluster Thai economy, and on Friday it ran inches of white instead of a piece that called for greater transparency at the agency that controls the monarchy's assets. In each case, a small message from the NYT made it clear that the censorship took place in Thailand and the editorial office in Manhattan had no control over it.
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos is hailing the discovery of the shipwreck of an old Spanish Galleon off the country's coast that may yield the world's biggest sunken treasure. Robot submarines went down and got a peek at artifacts that establish that it could only be the missing San Jose. The ship sank on 8 June 1708 off Colombia's Baru peninsula south of Cartagena with 600 people aboard, and a rumored eleven million gold coins and jewels from Spain's colonies. It would be worth billions today. But there will be a battle over ownership between Colombia, Spain, and a private US salvage company which claims to have found the location in 1982.