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The Paris climate agreement signed in 2015 has the goal of limiting average global temperature rise to well below 2C and to strive for 1.5C to avert drastic climate change.

Businesses hailed the deal as averting potential disaster for the export-driven Swiss economy.

I avert my eyes, open my hand, and trace the pattern on the inside of my palm—two stylized hearts, one atop the other, locked in an eternal headbutting competition.

According to Tusk, the damage to the track "was likely intended to derail a train" -- a danger averted as a driver spotted the damage.

Canada's parliament has narrowly approved Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget, allowing his minority Liberal government to avert an early election.