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A10 WORLD NEWS
Monday 26 March 2018

Lights go dark for Earth Hour to highlight climate change

LONDON (AP) — In Paris, New York.
the Eiffel Tower went dark. It lasted for just an hour and
In London, a kaleidoscope its power is purely symbolic.
of famous sites switched off But in countries around the
their lights — Tower Bridge, world, at 8:30 p.m., people
Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, switched off their lights for
Buckingham Palace, the Earth Hour, a global call for
London Eye. international unity on the
That scene was repeated importance of addressing
over and over across the climate change.
world on Saturday night: Begun in Sydney in 2007,
at Sydney's Opera House; Earth Hour has spread to
at New Delhi's great arch; more than 180 countries,
at Kuala Lumpur's Petronas with tens of millions of peo-
Towers; at Edinburgh Castle ple joining in, from turning
in Scotland; at Berlin's Bran- off their own porch lights to
denburg Gate; at St. Basil's letting the grand sites like
Cathedral in Moscow; at the Opera House go dark.
the Empire State Building in Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

Jordanians light candles that form the Earth Hour logo, in an official attempt to be registered in
the Guinness Book of Records for the largest candle-shaped World Hour logo, in Amman, Jordan,
Saturday, March 24, 2018.
(AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

said 300 Paris buildings Around India Gate, New stayed dark, a silent call for
observed the blackout to Delhi's monument to the change.
send a "universal message." Indian dead in World War In Jordan, the Royal Soci-
These 60 minutes are "an I, thousands embraced the ety for the Conservation
opportunity" to shift "the city's nightly warm-weath- of Nature arranged 11,440
consumption culture and er ritual Saturday. They candles on a hilltop in the
behavior change toward bought ice cream and capital of Amman, estab-
sustainability," Indian En- cheap plastic trinkets. They lishing a Guinness World Re-
vironment Minister Harsh flirted. Young children rode cord for the largest candle
Vardhan said. in electric carts that their mosaic.
All this happens and yet parents rented for a few The candles spelled the
many people, of course, minutes at a stretch. Earth Hour motto of "60+."
barely notice. But for an hour the arch q

5 dead in Russian shopping center fire

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian cause of the fire Sunday committee as saying the
authorities say that five in the city 3,000 kilometers victims were three women,
people including one child (1,900 miles) east of Mos- a man and a child.
have died in a fire that cow. The reports didn't say if the
broke out in a multi-story Although Russia's Investiga- victims died from burns or
shopping center in the Si- tive Committee initially said smoke inhalation. State
berian city of Kemerovo. four children died in the news agency Tass said nine
There has been no imme- fire, later reports on Russian other people were hospi-
diate information on the news agencies quoted the talized in the blaze.q