The winter season takes a terrible toll on automobiles. The harsh conditions can harm a car’s tires, windshield, and battery. Here, we’ll explore the different ways winter weather affects your car. Once you finish the article, you’ll know what you must do to ensure the safety of your vehicle during the most challenging parts of the year.
Decreased Tire Pressure
Your tire pressure will decrease when the vehicle is at rest in cold weather. As a responsible driver, you should check your tire pressure as soon as you see your tire pressure light turn on. Driving with inadequate pressure can create uneven wear and shorten your tire’s lifespan. Even worse, low tire pressure may cause a tire to blow out when you’re driving.
Cracked Windshield
Winter weather impacts your windshield tremendously. Dramatic temperature changes may force the glass to expand and contract. When this happens, the glass may crack. The windshield’s sensitivity also complicates your ability to clear its surface from ice. You must use the proper ice scraping tools gently so that you don’t deepen cracks or create new ones.
Dead Battery
In the winter months, a car battery’s starting capacity decreases. Batteries must work much harder in cold weather to produce the desired effect. Batteries that have gone through more than three winters are likely ready for a replacement. So make sure to bring your battery to a mechanic each winter.
Salting Problems
On this list of the different ways winter weather affects your car, one of the most surprising is how the salty roads impact your car’s condition. Road crews use salt to melt the ice on cold and slippery roads. Unfortunately, this tough substance can stick to your vehicle and corrode metal parts. This leaves the brakes, the undercarriage, and wheel wells vulnerable. Thus, you should frequently wash your car to avoid salt buildup.
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
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Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said today that he has written to the President of the UN General Assembly to inform him that UNRWA’s ability to continue delivering its mandate in Gaza has now become very limited. In an unprecedented letter, he noted that the constant bombardment and low and irregular flow of food and other humanitarian supplies into Gaza, compared with the immense needs of displaced people in UNRWA’s overcrowded shelters but also outside those shelters, adding that more than 130 UNRWA colleagues have been killed, most of them with their families. At least 70 per cent of UNRWA staff have been displaced, many multiple times.
Mr. Lazzarini said that in his 35 years of work in complex emergencies, he would never have expected to write such a letter, predicting the killing of his staff and the collapse of the mandate that UNRWA is expected to fulfill.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tells us that last night, 69 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies and 61,000 litres of fuel entered from Egypt into Gaza. These quantities are nowhere near sufficient to meet overwhelming humanitarian needs in Gaza – not to mention that the complete lack of safety in Gaza is severely limiting access to people in need.
Rafah was the main governorate in Gaza where limited aid distributions took place yesterday. In the adjacent Khan Younis governorate, except for the delivery of medical supplies to two hospitals, aid distribution largely stopped due to the intensity of the ongoing hostilities.
Also yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered trauma and emergency care supplies to the European Gaza Hospital and the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, to cover the needs of some 4,500 hospital patients. This was the first delivery mission to those hospitals since 29 November, despite active hostilities ongoing in the area.
ARMENIA/AZERBAIJAN
The Secretary-General welcomes the joint statement issued by Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing a series of confidence-building measures and reaffirming their commitment to normalize bilateral relations. The United Nations encourages the parties to build on the agreement to advance mutual confidence and secure long-term peace for the benefit of their populations and the region.
HAITI
Yesterday afternoon, we issued a statement on Haiti, in which the Secretary-General expressed his concern over the limited progress in the inter-Haitian dialogue towards a lasting and inclusive political solution to restore the country’s democratic institutions.
He extends his full support to the efforts of the CARICOM Eminent Persons Group and to the UN Office in Haiti to facilitate sustainable and nationally-owned solutions to Haiti’s political crisis.
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Published: 8th Dec 2023 06:43:24 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: Youth Climate Voices at #COP28 | United Nations
Youth climate voices advocate for the future of our planet at the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - COP28.
The advocates represent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Young Leaders, the official Children and Youth Constituency of the UNFCCC (YOUNGO), Youth Climate Movement, and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Youth Advocates.
Published: 8th Dec 2023 04:35:11 By: United Nations
United Nations Video: Israel/Palestine Crisis: 'The eyes of the world, and the eyes of history, are watching' - UN Chief
Security Council Briefing by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
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Published: 8th Dec 2023 03:59:11 By: United Nations
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A former judge, Catherine Marchi-Uhel has spent a lifetime pursuing justice. Now leading the quest for accountability for atrocities and war crimes committed in the Syrian civil war, she finds comfort in survivors’ resilience and their determination to move on with their lives.
“In Syria, I was really struck by this lack of revenge. I haven't seen many people wanting revenge. They want justice. And that's really a very powerful attitude.”
Since 2016, the UN’s IIIM has been helping investigate and prosecute the most serious atrocities committed in Syria during the devastating conflict. In this episode, Catherine Marchi-Uhel reflects on the painstaking job of documenting brutality, the importance of preserving evidence, and how she keeps faith in the face of humanity’s darkest crimes.
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Published: 8th Dec 2023 03:00:20 By: United Nations
CNN Video: Father of boy killed by school shooter asks for harshest penalty
Multiple family members and loved ones of those killed and injured in a 2021 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan are delivering emotional statements in court ahead of shooter Ethan Crumbley's sentencing. #CNN #News
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CNN Video: 'Stakes are so much higher': Honig on Hunter Biden's new charges
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down new charges brought against Hunter Biden by special counsel David Weiss. The charges span nine counts, including failure to file and pay taxes; evasion of assessment; and false or fraudulent tax return. #CNN #News
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CNN Video: Teen is one of the first ever to get his genes edited. Why he says the process is 'cool and freaky'
CNN's Meg Tirrell sits down with Johnny Lubin, one of the first in the world to try a new kind of medicine that uses a gene-editing tool called CRISPR to offer a potential cure for sickle cell disease. #CNN #News
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CNN Video: Controversial ex-president released from prison
Peru’s controversial former president Alberto Fujimori, 85, was released from prison on December 6. He had been sentenced to 25 years in 2009 for authorizing the operation of a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
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BBC News Video: John Lennon on mental health and the Beatles reuniting | BBC News
On this day in 1980, John Lennon was murdered outside his home in New York City.
Ever since, Beatles fans have speculated about what might have transpired with the band had he lived.
A rediscovered 1975 interview with Lennon from the BBC archive gives some clues.
His untimely death would rob the Beatles of that opportunity in person, but it wasn't the end of their musical collaboration together.
The final song, Now and Then, was released this year, credited to all four Beatles.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will stand again for a fifth term in office.
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BBC News Video: Why is Western aid to Ukraine falling? - BBC News
Commitments of aid to Ukraine are at the lowest since the invasion by Russia began.
The country has been relying on Western support since the war began in February 2022, but new data shows an 87% fall in new commitments of aid compared to the same period last year.
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Published: 8th Dec 2023 03:58:24 By: BBC News
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has asked an East African regional force to leave the country, two weeks ahead of an election and amid security concerns in the eastern parts of the country.
President Félix Tshisekedi is up for re-election after spending a first term fighting the M23 rebel group in the North Kivu region.
7 million people have been internally displaced as a result of the conflict, which saw an East African regional force deployed to the area in an hope to end the rebellion.
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Published: 8th Dec 2023 01:30:11 By: BBC News
ODN Video: Vladimir Putin Announces Run For Reelection in 2024
Vladimir Putin Announces Run For Reelection in 2024
Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his position in Russia for another six years, announcing his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
Putin, 71, has twice used his leverage to amend the constitution so he could theoretically stay in power until he’s in his mid-80s.
He is already the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who died in 1953.
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ODN Video: Video Appears to Show Palestinian Detainees Stripped by Israeli Forces
Video Appears to Show Palestinian Detainees Stripped by Israeli Forces
Video footage shows dozens of Palestinian men stripped down to their underwear with their heads bowed, after reportedly being captured by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza.
In the video footage the men appear to be stripped down to their underwear with their heads bowed as they are being guarded by Israeli troops.
Israeli Media report that the images show suspected Hamas militants who had surrendered to Israeli forces.
The men are believed to to have surrendered near the Jabalia area and were reported to be paraded through Palestine Square in Gaza City.
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ODN Video: Israeli Military Close In On Home Of Top Hamas Leader
'Israeli Military Close In On Home Of Top Hamas Leader'.
Israeli forces are closing in on the house of Yahya Sinwar - a top Hamas leader.
However, the IDF say they believe Sinwar is using a network of tunnels to hide.
It comes as Israel’s Prime Minister is exerting pressure on the Red Cross to visit the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza.
There are believed to be 138 hostages still being held in Gaza.
An expanding air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians.
The UN says it’s created ‘apocalyptic conditions’, with the ‘remnants of a nation being driven into a pocket in the south’.
The organisation’s Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, urging major nations to intervene.
It comes as the war between Israel and Hamas passes the two month mark, with an estimated death toll of over 17,000 people.
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ODN Video: Iran Sends 'Mystery Animals' Into Space on Rocket
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The ’Salman’ capsule is a step towards sending humans into orbit.
It successfully travelled to a height of 80 miles, according to Iran’s Telecommunications Minister.
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ODN Video: North Korean Leader Tearfully Begs for Women To Have More Babies
North Korean Leader Tearfully Begs for Women To Have More Babies
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cried at The 5th National Conference of Mothers.
In his tearful speech Mr Kim urged mothers to have more children due to the fall in the country’s birthrate.
State Media said on Monday that Mr Kim called for women to help strengthen the power of the nation.
"Stopping the decline in birth rates and providing good childcare and education are all our family affairs that we should solve together with our mothers” Mr Kim said.
North Korean state media reports the country has introduced benefits for families with three or more children.
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CBC Video: 5 now dead in major cantaloupe salmonella outbreak
Five people have now died in a salmonella outbreak linked to two brands of cantaloupe sold across Canada this fall, according to federal officials. The outbreak, linked to contaminated Malichita or Rudy brand cantaloupe, has now sickened 129 people across six provinces.
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A lucrative cross-border human smuggling market is attracting criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving 'vulnerable' people from Canada into the U.S., according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.
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CBC Video: Hunter Biden faces new tax evasion charges
Hunter Biden has been indicted on nine criminal tax charges in California, as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of the U.S. president's son intensifies.
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CBC Video: Godzilla Minus One brings king of monsters back to its roots
Toho Studios is back with its 33rd monster movie starring Godzilla, and this latest offering brings the story of the original nuclear kaiju back to where it all began: Tokyo, bombed, broken and still recovering from the Second World War.
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CBC Video: 7-day strike begins as Quebec public-sector workers walk off the job
Some 420,000 education, health and social service workers in Quebec have kicked off a seven-day strike for higher pay and better working conditions.
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Global Video: Future of wildfires: What will happen to Canada's scorched forests as fires worsen?
After a record-breaking wildfire season in 2023, land double the size of Portugal has been burnt in Canada throughout the year, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). At 18.5 million hectares (46 million acres), that’s about five per cent of the country’s entire forests.
As the wildfire season slowly winds down with cooling temperatures, what happens to all the land and forests after the fires have been extinguished and nearby evacuated communities returned, especially with such a large swath of area affected?
In the past, fires didn’t come around an area more often than every 30 years, with the lack of trees from recent burns helping regulate the frequency of the fires and resetting the local ecosystem. But now, experts warn that climate change may be breaking that natural cycle.
“Unfortunately, what we're seeing now when we have these extremely intense fires is that, in some places, things burn so hot that they actually incinerate the seeds that are released,” warns ‘Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire’ author Edward Struzik. “The southern end of our boreal forest is going to disappear.”
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Published: 8th Oct 2023 01:22:16 By: Global News
Global Video: How rocks from an asteroid could teach us about our planet
On Sunday, rocks plucked from the asteroid 101955 Bennu will land on our planet, ready to be studied by scientists who hope this sample can shine a light on our planet – and how it came to be.
The sample comes to us seven years after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on a mission to study a near-Earth asteroid and three years after it successfully touched down on Bennu to collect a sample of an asteroid for the first time in the space agency’s history.
Bennu is described as a celestial “rubbish pile” that is made up of material dating back billions of years to when the solar system was forming. And as Alyssa Julie reports, scientists believe its rocks could hold a record of that time period.
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Global Video: Maui wildfires: Wind, drought and invasive grass created perfect storm for devastating fires
Punishing winds, a severe drought and invasive grass created the perfect conditions for the devastating fires on Maui that have so far killed at least 67 people, experts say.
The exact cause of the fires is yet to be determined but the National Weather Service had issued warnings for high winds and dry weather as Hurricane Dora brushed south of Hawaii.
Craig Clements, a meteorology professor at San Jose State University, said Maui had already been in a severe drought, putting it at risk for fires. He said the steep mountains overlooking the hard-hit town of Lahain also exacerbated the high wind conditions, sending them into populated areas at high speed.
Alyssa Julie has more on how conditions fanned the flames of the fires.
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Global Video: CO2: How an essential greenhouse gas is heating up the planet
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas and is essential for life on Earth to function normally. However, humans are emitting it on an industrial scale, like through the burning of fossil fuels, which is contributing to global warming.
Kamyar Razavi explains how the exponential increase of CO2 release is causing the planet to heat up.
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Published: 28th Jun 2023 06:30:21 By: Global News
Global Video: King Charles coronation: Crown jewels, centuries-old traditions and what it all means
The coronation of King Charles III will be the first time a King of England has his coronation televised and only the second-ever British monarch to do so after Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
It’s a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance, cloaked in mystery and steeped in centuries-old traditions…that comes from a healthy dose of historical pettiness and happenstance.
During the ceremony, the monarch will be presented with the crown jewels, almost all of which were destroyed, altered, or lost to time over the often-tumultuous centuries of British history.
While the crown is the centrepiece of the regalia – what do sceptres, swords and a Scottish stone have to do with being anointed to the British throne?
Global News explains.
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Published: 2nd May 2023 03:00:10 By: Global News
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