KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — 

Former President Obama said Friday the Paris agreement on climate change may fall short of expectations but is still the way forward to achieve progress and encourage businesses to invest in clean energy.

Nearly 200 nations pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions and help poor countries cope with the worst effects of an already warming planet under the accord signed in 2016 that was a cornerstone of Obama’s environmental legacy.

But his successor, President Trump, abandoned that legacy when his administration notified the U.N. last month that the U.S. would pull out of the accord. Trump has said the agreement could impede growth and impinge on U.S. sovereignty.

Speaking to young Asian leaders at a Kuala Lumpur conference hosted by his foundation, Obama said he knew the standards set by each country were insufficient but that the accord was practical and meant for the long haul.

“I took satisfaction knowing that just by setting up the mechanism, we had created the ability to over time, turn up the standards, turn up the demands. Send a signal to businesses so that they started investing in more clean energy because they saw change coming,” he said in response to questions on the climate change crisis.

Obama didn’t mention U.S. withdrawal from the accord. He said there is no “silver bullet” to solve climate change but he remains optimistic that global warming can be slowed down.

“It’s too late for us not to have some impacts. And so there’s gonna have to be some adaptation that’s going to take place. The oceans will be rising and that is going to displace people. And so we’re going to anticipate and care for some of the consequences of that, including large-scale migration and disruptions that are going to be very costly. But there is a big difference between the ocean rising three feet and rising six feet,” he said.

He urged young people not to despair but to use their voices to raise awareness on the issue.

“We take two steps forward. We take one step back … but the trajectory has been positive. And the best we can then do is just do our work and try to advance it as best we can. Understanding that we will not finish the job,” he said. “Most of the time, the way the world’s gotten to where we are now is small incremental victories, not big sweeping victories all at once.”

About 200 people from the region were chosen by Obama’s foundation for the event in Kuala Lumpur that included workshops, leadership development and community projects.

Obama was joined by his wife, Michelle, who on Thursday gave a talk to the young crowd with actress Julia Roberts.

Obama also spoke on other issues including family and work. He said on his deathbed he would remember moments spent with his wife and two daughters, not any bills he had passed or speeches he had made.

“Seeing them laugh … that’s going to be the thing that sticks. That’s going to be the thing that will give my life meaning,” he said.

PARIS — 

Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a former prime minister and loyalist of Algeria’s influential army chief, has been elected the country’s new president.

Tebboune, 74, was elected with 58.15% of the vote in the oil-rich North African nation, according to the head of the National Independent Electoral Authority, Mohamed Charfi, on Friday.

Tebboune served briefly as prime minister in 2017 under former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was ousted from power in April amid a pro-democracy protest movement.

Tebboune reportedly has strong ties to the powerful army chief Gaid Salah, a much-criticized figure among members of the movement that some have called Algeria’s Arab Spring. Participants have been staging peaceful protests nationwide since February.

The election of an establishment figure provided little hope of changing the protesters’ view that the poll was rigged in favor of the old regime.

Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee began sparring over the articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday.

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A House Committee Divided

Fourteen hours of vitriolic debate on Thursday did virtually nothing to change the minds of Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. Now, after a surprise move to push the vote from last night to this morning, the committee is poised to approve two articles of impeachment against President Trump along strictly partisan lines. That would send them to the full House for a vote, probably next week.

Meanwhile, top Republicans in the Senate are refining their approach to an impeachment trial. Trump would like it to be a weeks-long spectacle in an effort to seek political retribution against Democrats. But GOP leaders appear determined to conduct a relatively brief trial, possibly without calling witnesses.

And in Ukraine, more than $20 million of the Pentagon aid at the center of the impeachment fight still hasn’t reached the embattled country. The delay undermines a key argument against impeachment from Trump’s allies and a new legal memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget.

More Politics

— An official says Trump will not impose new tariffs on an additional $160 billion of Chinese imports that were scheduled to take effect this weekend after tentatively signing off on a so-called phase-one trade agreement with Beijing.

— Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous.”

— No #Bernieblackout here: Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is riding a surge in alternative media on the left.

Will This ‘Get Brexit Done’?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party appears to have won a decisive parliamentary majority in Thursday’s election, putting the country on track for a split with the European Union early next year. If the results are borne out, they mark a decisive victory for Johnson, who campaigned with the slogan “Get Brexit Done.”

When Recognition Is Not Enough

In a landmark vote, the U.S. Senate has joined the House in recognizing the Armenian genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago. The resolution had previously been blocked three times at the request of the White House.

In Southern California, home to the nation’s largest Armenian American community, many say the fight for that acknowledgment binds Armenians across the globe. Yet activists say recognition is only part of the equation. Some want reparations from Turkey — a shift that’s come as many survivors have died and their children have taken up the cause.

A Cautionary Tale From Down Under

What might a catastrophic earthquake in California look like? The one that shattered Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011 offers some urgent lessons, given the many similarities between the two. The recovery in Christchurch has been painfully slow — yet recovery from a huge quake in Southern California or the Bay Area would be many times more challenging.

That’s one of five lessons reporter Rong Gong-Lin II took from his visit to New Zealand. Among the others: That California doesn’t have enough insurance. That the warnings about dangerous buildings aren’t overblown. And that the emotional scars will last for years.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

This time-exposure photograph, taken on this date in 1988, captures the passing of nighttime traffic on Sunset Boulevard near Horn Avenue, back when the famous Tower Records store was still open. Built in 1971, the Tower Records building was for decades a center of activity in the vibrant music scene of the Sunset Strip, until it closed in 2006.

CALIFORNIA

— California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Reps. Salud Carbajal and Julia Brownley have proposed sweeping boat safety legislation after the Conception dive boat fire that killed 34 people on Labor Day.

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— A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block Los Angeles from enforcing a law requiring companies that seek contracts with the city to disclose whether they have ties to the National Rifle Assn.

— Deborah Flint, the chief of Los Angeles World Airports, will step down at the end of this month after questions from The Times about whether she received proper approval to accept a paid board position at Honeywell International.

— A Los Angeles police officer accused of fondling a dead woman’s breasts was arrested and charged.

— Drought busters: New data show that recent rains have reduced the portion of the state deemed to be abnormally dry to just 3.6%.

YOUR WEEKEND

— Thinking of taking SuperShuttle to the airport? The shared van ride that has served passengers for decades will cease operations at the end of the year.

— There’s a new cruise ship designed expressly for the L.A. market.

— Spend a holiday weekend in San Juan Capistrano that will make you feel as if you’re in a Hallmark Christmas movie.

— The Santa Monica restaurant Pasjoli marks a return to grand French dining.

— The easiest holiday recipes start at Costco. Because of course. Here’s a menu of fast dishes.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

— The director, writer and star of “Black Christmas” talk about how it became a “fiercely feminist” slasher movie for the #MeToo era.

— From Susan Orlean to Laila Lalami to Ronan Farrow, the authors who spoke with the L.A. Times Book Club this year told us about the best books they read this year, and what they’re up to next year.

— A new documentary about Pauline Kael lets the legendary film critic speak her mind.

— Actress Monica Ruiz, the star of a much-criticized Peloton bike commercial, is blaming her facial expression for the ad’s unwanted notoriety.

NATION-WORLD

— The Pentagon’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400-million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used appearances on Fox News to push for the job.

— Spanish sex workers’ fight for union rights is reigniting an old feminist debate.

— Why are the French so fond of protesting?

BUSINESS

— Power plants in Redondo Beach, Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Oxnard have become an early battleground in an increasingly urgent debate: How much natural gas does California need on its power grid, and for how long?

— The Los Angeles Times’ sprawling downtown printing plant has been sold to a New York real estate developer.

— How could a tiny brewery outside Chicago buy an industry icon once worth $1 billion? The story of the Ballast Point deal involves 9/11, golf, a desperate seller and plenty of secrecy agreements.

SPORTS

— Former NBA Commissioner David Stern, the man often credited with shepherding the league’s rapid growth in the 1980s, has suffered a brain hemorrhage.

— Facing a crisis over a spike in racehorse deaths, California is closer to adopting the nation’s most restrictive racing whip rule.

— Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey knows what he’s up against in Cowboys receiver Amari Cooper.

OPINION

— Medicare and Medicaid chief Seema Verma just may be the Trump administration’s greatest threat to public health programs, Michael Hiltzik writes.

— Birds are vanishing from North America. There’s a way to bring them back, writes naturalist Joan Easton Lentz.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

— “That was the last little hope I had in my life, you know? I had that hope that I was gonna see my little brothers again.” Dontay Davis’ younger siblings were driven off a cliff to their deaths by their adoptive mother. He was left in foster care to suffer a more common fate. (Washington Post)

— How Instagram and plastic surgery created a cyborgian new beauty standard, and what it does each time we look in the mirror. (The New Yorker)

— For years, the Fed thought the jobs market was about as good as it could get. This interactive chart shows how wrong it was. (New York Times)

ONLY IN L.A.

The city of Los Angeles has 223,000 streetlights, but only a fraction are of the high-style variety. Perhaps not surprisingly, the lights in more affluent areas have some of the most distinctive looks. Now, officials have begun a design contest for a new streetlamp, one that places a premium on high design and great accessibility — and offers a space for poetry.

For the record: An item in Tuesday’s newsletter incorrectly stated that Sanna Marin would be the world’s youngest sitting head of state upon becoming Finland’s prime minister. She is the world’s youngest sitting head of government. In Finland, the president is head of state.

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DAKAR, Senegal — 

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military camp in Niger that killed at least 71 soldiers.

The extremist group carried out the assault near the town of Inates, not far from the border with Mali, it said in a statement late Thursday.

Niger’s military has said that 12 others were wounded in the attack earlier this week.

Islamic State claimed its fighters held the camp for several hours and seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition. Its jihadists took 16 vehicles and set the camp on fire before leaving, it said.

Niger’s government has declared three days of mourning following the attack, which was the deadliest of its kind in years.

Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams says she’s finally seeing a return on the team’s hard work and transformation in the past 14 months.

Williams was the third best team on the grid at the start of the hybrid era in 2014. But gradually, the Grove-based outfit has slipped down the running order, outpaced by its midfield rivals and undermined by several years of engineering issues that slowly eroded its level of performance.

The team was further disrupted at the start of the 2019 season when technical director Paddy Lowe departed the British squad whose drivers were confined to the back of the grid during the remainder of the campaign.

Claire Williams: Criticism ‘just makes me fight even harder’

Despite the hardship, Claire Williams is confident that a turnaround is underway.

“We have had two difficult years, but two difficult years doesn’t define a team,” Williams said.

“What I’ve seen in this team this year is an extraordinary level of resilience and tenacity, but also a willingness to put in the hard work to turn things around.

“I’ve always said that work is never going to be the work of a moment. It takes time.

“But we have undergone considerable transformation in the team in the past 14 months, that we are seeing the dividends of that work starting to pay off now,” she added.

“We all have, as every team up and down the paddock has, targets for next year.

“We are pleased, and comfortable with those targets, and where we are at the moment, but it’s always a challenge I think for any team to meet the targets that they set, it’s a challenge to get their cars ready for testing, but we have to get it right next year.”

Williams’ engineers have defined their design for 2020, and according to Sir Frank’s daughter, next year’s FW43 will deliver a significant step up in performance.

“I believe that the FW43, next year’s chassis, will be an improvement upon this year’s,” said the 43-year-old team boss.

“That’s what we’re all working towards back at the factory at the moment to make sure that it absolutely is.

“We have to make sure we give George and Nicholas a car that they can display their capabilities.”

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Freddie Ljungberg has been named interim boss of Arsenal and former team-mate Ashley Cole wants him to land the job on a permanent basis.

Ashley Cole hopes Arsenal appoint interim head coach Freddie Ljungberg as their permanent new boss because “he knows the club inside out”.

Ljungberg was put in temporary charge following Unai Emery’s sacking two weeks ago, celebrating his first win on Monday with a 3-1 triumph at West Ham.

The 42-year-old is reportedly in contention to stay on at the Emirates Stadium helm until the end of the campaign while the club continue their search for Emery’s successor .

However, Cole has called on Arsenal chiefs to consider sticking with Ljungberg – whom he played alongside for seven years – for the long term, rather than looking elsewhere.

“Every club has to change. They’re in another transition period at the minute where they tried Emery and for whatever reason it didn’t work out,” Cole, speaking on behalf of Nissan, told Omnisport.

“Now Freddie is there and hopefully he can take over as permanent manager because he knows the club inside out. Freddie was my friend when I was at Arsenal and hopefully he can change some things there.”

Another of Cole’s former clubs, Chelsea, are also going through a transition period after appointing club legend Frank Lampard as head coach in July.

Lampard has showed faith in young players such as Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori and Reece James , who all spent time on loan in the Championship last term.

And Cole, currently working as an academy coach at Chelsea, is full of praise for the work Lampard has done so far in the early stages of his Stamford Bridge tenure.

“I’m delighted,” he said. “I was lucky enough to work with him at Derby County before he came here and I knew how good he could be.

“He’s obviously come here and changed a few things, brought his own philosophy here, the way he wants to play. I think the team has done brilliantly so far, so no, no surprise how good he’s done.

“The youth players have been great. A lot of people were probably saying he had no choice to play them, but I think he knows if they weren’t good enough he wouldn’t play them.

“But they’ve been brilliant, they’ve adapted well from playing in the Championship as most of them did last season and I think they are the driving force of this team at the minute.”

The emergence of young talent has come at a cost for some players, though, with captain Cesar Azpilicueta recently losing his place at right-back to James.

“I wouldn’t say his time is coming to an end,” Cole said when asked about Azpilicueta’s future. “Tactically sometimes maybe the manager wants fresh ideas, fresh players.

“It comes with the job, you can’t play every game. It happened to me: Cesar took my place. He’s still the Chelsea captain.

“It’s not about just what he does on the pitch, it’s how he motivates the players off it and I’ve been around that and seen how good he is at that. 

“I don’t think it will worry him. It will probably spur him on to be even better and train even harder, which is hard to do because he is a beast at training.”

Nissan are proud partners of the UEFA Champions League. UEFA ambassador Ashley Cole was at the Chelsea FC v LOSC Lille match on Tuesday 10th December, along with the UEFA Champions League Trophy, which is being driven around the UK by the next generation Nissan Juke.

Et un et deux… déjà deux ans d’amour ! A l’occasion de la 28e cérémonie des trophées de l’Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels, qui s’est déroulée ce dimanche 19 mai, Pamela Anderson et Adil Rami n’ont pas manqué de rappeler qu’entre eux, la partie était toujours collée-serrée. Sexy attitude à son comble, au Pavillon d’Armenonville.

Droit au but. Après deux ans de vie commune, malgré les rumeurs de tension et les petits mouvements d’humeur, Pamela Anderson et Adil Rami sont toujours aussi amoureux. Le couple, qui réside à l’année à Marseille, l’a prouvé en assistant à la 28e cérémonie des trophées de l’Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels. Crépitement de flashs lors de l’arrivée du duo au Pavillon d’Armenonville, en lisière de Paris. Très smart dans un blazer et des boots Balmain, le footballeur de 33 ans a multiplié les égards pour sa blonde, qui fêtera ses 52 ans en juillet prochain. Toujours aussi sculpturale comme le laissait entrevoir sa robe en mousseline noire, l’ex-naïade de la série Alerte à Malibu n’a pas quitté non plus son homme du regard.

Invité à remettre un prix aux meilleurs arbitres de Ligue 1 et Ligue 2 de la saison, Adil Rami a une fois de plus fait rire son assistance, en déclarant qu’il ne risquait pas d’en recevoir un ou en assurant qu’il préférait les célèbres ralentis de sa compagne à ceux de Ronaldo. Alors qu’elle filmait le discours de son compagnon avec son smartphone, Pamela, sa fan number one, n’a pu s’empêcher d’étouffer quelques rires. Carton rose !

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Alessandra Sublet a encore une fois fait craquer ses abonnés sur Instagram : dans sa story, l’animatrice de C’est Canteloup a posté aujourd’hui une vidéo de ses deux enfants, pendant un cours de piano.

Alessandra Sublet est toujours aussi gaga de sa fille Charlie, 6 ans, et de son fils Alphonse, 4 ans. Elle ne les quitte jamais, même lorsqu’elle travaille sur le plateau de C’est Canteloup sur TF1 : en effet, sur chacun de ses pieds, elle s’est fait tatouer le prénom d’un de ses enfants. Ils sont aussi à son côté en toutes circonstances, sous la forme d’un porte-clés décoré de photos d’eux : « Je ne m’en sépare jamais », avait-elle déclaré.

Maman poule, elle partage régulièrement les jolis moments vécus avec ses deux enfants sur son compte Instagram, pour le plus grand plaisir de ses abonnés. Alphonse qui pousse la chansonnette, un grand saut en famille, une promenade dans les bois…

Dernière publication en date ? Une courte vidéo postée ce mercredi 22 mai dans la story Instagram de l’animatrice récemment divorcée de Clément Miserez, dans laquelle on découvre l’un de leurs talents. En noir et blanc, les deux enfants sont capturés en noir et blanc pendant leur cours de piano, avec leur professeure. Assis ensemble face à l’instrument, ils s’appliquent à jouer un morceau à quatre mains. Alessandra Sublet, spectatrice, a décoré la vidéo d’un simple coeur, qui en dit long sur sa fierté.

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A l’occasion de la fête des mères, Laura Smet a rendu un touchant hommage à sa maman Nathalie Baye sur son compte Instagram, en postant une vidéo rock’n’roll.

Laura Smet et Nathalie Baye entretiennent une relation fusionnelle. Ces derniers mois, la mère a fait bloc pour protéger sa fille et lui assurer son soutien inconditionnel dans la difficile bataille qui l’oppose avec son frère David à Laeticia Hallyday. Ce dimanche 26 mai, jour de la fête de toutes les mamans, Laura a tenu à adresser à sa mère un message sur son compte Instagram : « Bonne fête à la plus géniale des mères ! Je t’aime ».

Une déclaration d’amour toute simple d’une mère à sa fille qui a beaucoup touché ses followers. D’autant que Laura Smet, qui a dirigé Nathalie Baye dans le court-métrage Thomas, a choisi d’illustrer son post avec un extrait du film Les Sentiments, long-métrage réalisé par Noémie Lvovski en 2002 dans lequel l’interprète de La Balance partageait l’affiche avec Jean-Pierre Bacri et Isabelle Carré. Sur la vidéo, on découvre Carole, le personnage de Nathalie Baye, lancée dans une danse endiablée sur la célèbre chanson “Can’t take my eyes off of you“. Sautillant un verre de vin à la vin, elle se lâche comme jamais !

L’une des admiratrices de Laura Smet qui, hasard de l’existence, était présente sur le plateau pour le tournage de cette scène a commenté la vidéo : « Ça avait fait marrer toute l’équipe ( j’etais là ce jour sur le tournage avec ma mère Françoise) il avait fallu 4 prises avant de calmer les fous rires. Et moi, j avais genre 8 ans et jamais vu ta mère se lâcher comme ça !!! ». Rock’n’roll.

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Le spin-off de la saga Star Wars, Rogue One, se maintient sans difficulté sur la première marche du podium aux Etats-Unis. Les fêtes de fin d’année profitent aussi à Tous en scène et aux futurs films à Oscars.

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Rogue One tient bon sur son deuxième week-end. En quelques jours d’exploitation, le spin off de la saga Star Wars devient le neuvième plus gros succès de l’année 2016 sur le territoire américain, devant Doctor Strange et après Suicide Squad.

Box-office américain du 23 au 26 décembre 2016 : le Top 10

1 (1er)
Rogue One
96 085 000
318 083 674
2 (N)
Tous en scène
56 080 000
76 692 640 
3 (N)
Passengers
23 100 000
30 425 201 
4 (N)
The Boyfriend – Pourquoi lui ?
16 715 000
16 715 000
5 (N)
Assassin’s Creed
15 000 000
22 492 398
6 (Ne)
Fences
11 366 000
11 557 515 
7 (2e)
Vaiana, la légende du bout du monde
10 447 000

183 479 191
8 (7e)
La La Land
9 699 000
17 582 311 

9 (3e)
  Joyeux bordel!

7 249 000
44 288 602
10 (4e)
Beauté cachée
7 060 000
18 061 500

Après le succès au box-office 2016 mondial de Comme des bêtes, c’est maintenant au tour de Tous en scène de faire ses preuves. Eclipsé par l’événement Star Wars, Tous en scène est loin du succès précédent des studios Illumination Entertainment.

Assassin’s Creed peine à convaincre aux Etats-Unis. L’adaptation du jeu vidéo d’Ubisoft sur grand écran ne parvient à s’offrir que la cinquième place du box-office américain, loin derrière Passengers. Même la comédie avec Bryan Cranston et James Franco The Boyfriend – Pourquoi lui ? parvient à lui passer devant.

Bien entendu, les films ayant bénéficié d’une sortie limitée en toute fin d’année suscitent la curiosité du public : ce sont souvent ceux qu’on retrouve aux Oscars ! Fences et La La Land fond déjà de bons chiffres.

Avec beaucoup de blockbusters à l’affiche cette semaine et ces films à récompenses, Joyeux Bordel ! et Beauté cachée dégringolent malheureusement dans les dernières places du top 10. 

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* Les chiffres mentionnés dans l’article sont des estimations, publiées dimanche soir par la société spécialisée Exhibitor Relations et annoncées par le site Box Office Mojo.