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Demarest Farms' fall parking plan includes street parking for its customers. Residents who live in the vicinity of the farm say that street parking for the farm's growing customer base is not safe. Catherine Carrera/NorthJersey.com

Demarest Farms is on Wierimus Road in Hillsdale.(Photo: Anne Caruso/NorthJersey.com file photo)

HILLSDALE No agreement was reached Friday but there was "progress" in the negotiations over Demarest Farms' parking, according to the farm's attorney.

The borough and Demarest Farms representatives met Friday morning to negotiate a resolution on parking for patrons of the farm, officials said.

"We aired our views and some progress was made," the farm's attorney, David Marcus, said. Hesaid further details could not be disclosed as the negotiations are ongoing. The representatives plan to meet again July 18.

The issue of where the farm's patrons can parkhas gotten contentious in the borough after recent "pick your own" seasons have drawn thousands of visitors to the 34-acre farm that sits on the corner of Hillsdale Avenue andWierimusRoad.

Farm co-owner JasonDeGisesaid the farm has been using off-site parking for 16 years. After nearby farms closed down, such asDePiero's Farmin Montvale, the number of customers has increased, Marcus has said.

The Borough Council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting parking on the 37 streets surrounding the farm on weekends during business hours from Aug. 30 through Oct. 30.

But the farm, which can accommodate 210 cars on-site, relies on street parking during that time for an estimated 600 vehicles.

The farm is currently seeking approval from the Bergen County Agriculture Development Board foraparking plan that calls for street parking for 600 patrons.

The borough recently offered to allow the farm to use its municipal lot downtown, which the farm would need to place a bid on, borough officials have said. The councilalso recently askedthe school board to allow Demarest Farms to use the 130 spaces at the parking lot at nearby Smith School.

A previous agreement between the school board and farm was terminated after public protest.

"We're working as best we can to support their application," Mayor Doug Frank said Friday.

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Honda's update at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was crucial in terms of showing McLaren that progress is being made, according to Yusuke Hasegawa.

Fernando Alonso ran an upgraded Honda power unit during Friday practice which showed improved performance, but did not race the new specification due to over-revving caused by a gearbox failure in FP2. With the likes of Zak Brown and Eric Boullier saying they are satisfied with the effort being put in by Honda but that they want to see progress, head of F1 project Hasegawa believes the initial signs from Baku were positive.

"Of course it is encouraging but still that gain is not big enough to catch up with the top runners," Hasegawa told RACER. "Obviously it is good progress to close the gap to the other teams. So of course it is a very good thing.

"As I said, [McLaren] are not very excited because it is not a huge upgrade to catch up with the frontrunners, but of course they are pleased.

"It is very important that we can show them that we have some progress, although we didn't achieve the complete target yet."

Hasegawa added that the upgraded power unit delivered what was expected during Friday practice, adding after Alonso's ninth-place finish: "If we had the spec three engine I think we could have protected from [Carlos] Sainz [for P8]."

Hasegawa also explained he did not see any damage to the latest specification of power unit in Baku despite the gearbox failure on Alonso's car, and expects both drivers to use the upgrade in Austria next weekend.

"[In Baku] we didn't see any issues but we will check the engine back in Sakura again. It should be all right, so we are supposed to introduce spec three engines for both drivers.

"I hope [we will have spares] but still... Even if we don't have a spare engine there is no option, we need to bring the two spec three engines."

Stoffel Vandoorne has only used three internal combustion engines so far this season, meaning he will receive the upgrade without having to take a penalty. Vandoorne and Alonso both had large grid penalties in Azerbaijan as a result of new power unit components.

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FRANKFURT The European Central Bank plans to inspect Greek banks this year to monitor their progress in working off their huge pile of unpaid loans, ECB director Sabine Lautenschlaeger said on Friday.

Greek banks have been cutting their share of non-performing loans (NPL) to companies and households, which account for slightly more than half of their books as a result of a severe economic crisis, to meet targets set by the ECB.

The ECB supervises Greece's four largest banks, or significant institutions (SIs), and is one of the three bodies responsible for the country's bailout, along with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.

"The ECB will perform on-site missions at the Greek SIs during the second half of 2017, a period in which the main operational measures to address NPLs ... have to be already implemented," Lautenschlaeger said in a letter to IMF chief Christine Lagarde.

She was responding to an IMF request for information on the ECB's supervisory work in Greece in the context of a possible IMF program for the country.

Greece secured a credit lifeline from euro zone governments earlier this month. The IMF offered Athens a standby arrangement but said it won't disburse any money until it obtains greater detail on debt relief for the country.

(Reporting by Francesco Canepa; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Major U.S. stock indexes on Friday ended a volatile week on a modestly high note, boosted by Nike's well-received quarterly report, with the S&P 500 tallying its best first half of the year since 2013.

Puerto Ricos financial oversight board on Friday voted to allow the PREPA power utility to restructure its $9 billion debt load through a form of bankruptcy, potentially heralding a messy end to three years of arduous out-of-court talks.

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Progress Software's acquisition of Kinvey brings together front-end and back-end application development services.

The two companies said they plan to continue to support current Kinvey customers going forward, and Kinvey will operate as a separate company. Its mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) offering is already integrated with Progress' Kendo UI Builder for web app dev and NativeScript code framework for mobile apps, following the $49 million deal, which closed Wednesday. Organizations can buy the products from both companies separately or buy them together as a bundle.

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"This could be a real advantage for our application development," said Jim De Sotle, CEO of Novo Holdings, a software provider and Kinvey customer in New York. "I am keenly interested in the Kinvey-Progress roadmap. "

Progress Software provides application development tools including NativeScript, application interface templates and other offerings for web, mobile and desktop apps. Kinvey is well-known in the enterprise development community for its MBaaS, which allows organizations to connect their mobile apps to back-end services such as storage and other infrastructure services. The deal will allow organizations to get front-end development tools and back-end connectivity from one place.

Kinvey wasn't getting the traction in the market that it wanted, said Eric Klein, director of mobile software at VDC Research Group Inc. in Natick, Mass.

"This acquisition will get Kinvey more deals and help them," Klein said. "Kinvey has some big companies as customers and that gives them credibility. They are a well-respected startup that has a lot of good talent."

The deal will also help Progress attract more customers by offering them a broader set of features, Klein added.

Organizations today need their applications to be secure, meet industry compliance regulations, and still offer faster performance than competitors, said Yogesh Gupta, president and CEO of Progress Software.

"With Kinvey's high performance back end, you can have much faster response times," Gupta said.

The Kinvey acquisition comes after Progress Software in March bought DataRPM, a software provider specializing in machine learning that teaches software to know when someone wants to use it before they open the application. The plan going forward is to integrate DataRPM's technology into both Kinvey's and Progress Software's offerings so organizations can build apps that take advantage of machine learning, Gupta said.

Uses for the combined technology could include apps that automatically tell service technicians the maintenance history of a machine and what parts it needs replaced, or a consumer app that informs insurance companies and emergency services when a user is in a car accident, the companies said.

Novo Holdings provides construction companies with job safety applications that bring up potential jobsite hazards and logs those notifications for liability reasons. The company uses Kinvey to connect the app to back-end systems that provide this data. The Progress deal opens the door for its customers to build smarter apps, De Sotle said.

"We are quickly moving into the machine learning and predictive analytics space for safety," he said. "The combination of mobile application development tools, predictive analytics and database puts Progress in the running for our business long term."

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Last week I was in Springfield for the signing of the Safe Neighborhoods Reform Act, a new state law which will lead to stricter prison sentences for repeat gun offenders in Illinois. It is a bill I have supported for a long time, and it is an important component of the broader public safety strategy we have implemented throughout the first six months of 2017.

Police Supt. Eddie Johnson

All of us who love this city were saddened and sickened with the level of violence last year, as shootings and murders spiked on the South and West sides. Over the first six months of 2017 we have implemented a smart policing strategy that is showing early signs of progress.

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Early in the year we made a conscious decision to make district-level intelligence the driver of our crime fight. Five of our historically most violent police districts on the South and West sides were outfitted with new strategic nerve centers, more robust integrated camera networks and gunshot detection technology. Analysts from the University of Chicago Crime Lab are working hand-in-hand with police officers in these new nerve centers, creating actionable intelligence that not only helps us respond to crime, but prevent it from occurring in the first place.

The early results from this evidence-based, data-driven approach have even impressed some of the old-timers in the police department. Englewood has seen a 30 percent reduction in murders, and a 32 percent reduction in shootings. North Lawndale has seen an 18 percent reduction in murders, and a 35 percent reduction in shootings.

While we are encouraged by our progress,we still have a lot of work left to do.

That is why we will meet Mayor Rahm Emanuels goal of growing the Chicago Police Department by nearly 1,000 new sworn officers, detectives, and supervisors. This year, 387 new police officers have graduated from the Training Academy and are on the streets. Six new classes of police recruits have entered the Academy. And we have promoted 52 lieutenants, 142 sergeants, 266 detectives and 122 field training officers.

At the same time, we are on track to meeting our expedited schedule of ensuring every officer is equipped with a body camera, a Taser, de-escalation and mental health awareness training. New officers are being trained in cultural competency, and last week we held our first training session for recruits at the DuSable Museum, a program that will be mandatory for all incoming officers moving forward. Next week, the first officers will begin training in our new use-of-force policy, which was created with unprecedented community input.

We are building better partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies. We are running a new joint strike force with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that focuses on removing illegal guns from our city and targeting prosecution of repeat violent offenders.

Last week, the ATF deployed its state-of-the-art National Integrated Ballistic Information Network van to Chicago, which will assist our officers in solving gun crimes by tracing shell casings at crime scenes using a national database. My hope is that whoever is appointed to serve as the next U.S. Attorney in Chicago will take the results of our work with the ATF and prosecute those dangerous gun offenders.

We are strengthening our partnership with the Cook County states attorneys office, creating continuity in homicide investigations so the same prosecutor will be responsible for a criminal case from the first step of felony review all the way to sentencing at trial. I am confident that this method, which has proven successful in cities including New York and Los Angeles, will lead to better outcomes in the courtroom and reaffirm a culture of accountability for violent offenders.

And, most importantly, we are strengthening our partnership with residents. Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community, a lesson I learned early in my career when I was walking the beat as a rookie officer. Community policing must be our guiding philosophy. We are using the feedback we hear from residents to better inform our crime fight, and new police policies are now open for public feedback prior to being implemented a first for Chicago.

And the mayor is committed to keeping our young people from falling into a life of crime to begin with, driving economic opportunities in our most struggling neighborhoods, expanding proven after school and summer jobs programs, and investing $36 million over the next three years to make mentoring universal for young men in our 20 most violent neighborhoods.

Preventing crime and reducing gun violence isnt about doing any one thing, its about everything you do coming together in a smart strategy.

This is our approach in 2017. It is achieving results. Achieving success will take time. Across all districts, shootings are down about 14 percent in Chicago this year. But our work is by no means done.

I was born and raised in Chicago, and I have been a member of the Chicago Police Department for nearly three decades. I know from experience that Chicago can overcome whatever challenges we face by working together as a city, building coalitions and uniting together. Over the next six months, and in the years ahead, lets continue to work together as a city to ensure every person in every neighborhood in every corner of this great city has the same level of safety.

Eddie Johnson is superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.

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MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Bucks arena is really taking shape as walls of the structure are going up.The Bucks offered the media on Thursday, June 29th a look at the progress being made as construction continues in downtown Milwaukee.

Amid the hum and drone of heavy equipment, FOX6 News swept in for a grand view of center court.

"This is where the team will literally live," said Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin.

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And then, we got an inside look at the locker room.

"Obviously, we are working through all of our enclosures to facilitate the interior construction," said Jeff Maples, Mortenson Construction senior product manager.

Mortenson Construction officials and Feigin guided more than a dozen journalists through a very active build site.

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"An example of our installation of our escalator. There are 10 escalators in the project," said Maples.

The first stop was the main atrium, and then, passing by the lower bowl, before the group moved through a corridor leading to an area called the "Bucks Campus" -- 30,000 feet of customized space.

"Really unique and unlike any arena ever built," said Maples.

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"This will be one of our really special areas and points of interest of the entire arena," said Feigin.

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The tour then brought us along Juneau Avenue, which Feigin said will be a showpiece.

"It's the difference betweenconceptual and literal. It's like giving birth. I mean, you can't really feel it or understand it until it is actually coming out of the ground," said Feigin.

Feigin says it will take another month for the glass and zinc shell to be installed.

"What we really have is the building taking form," said Feigin.

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There are many milestones lying ahead, but by Thanksgiving, Feigin said the entire structure will be watertight.

"For us to be on schedule and kind of avoid a harsh Wisconsin winter. We've really been lucky," Feigin said.

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Progress on I-90 light-rail work The Seattle Times Standing within an Interstate 90 bridge pontoon, project manager Brawn Lausen, of Kiewit-Hoffman Construction, describes how four long cables of steel will be threaded through dozens of cell walls, cinching all 18 pontoons into one unit. This is ...

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Progress Software on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Kinvey, a start-up that offers a service that developers can use to build and host mobile apps that integrate with existing enterprise software systems. The deal cost Progress $49 million.

Progress, which makes software for companies to build cross-platform applications and claims 80,000 enterprise customers, made the announcement alongside its earnings report for the quarter ended May 31. The company earned $0.21 per share on $93.2 million in revenue during the quarter. Progress stock was up 4 percent in after-hours trading.

Earlier this year Progress unveiled a new strategic plan that emphasizes cognitive application development. The word "cognitive," a nod to computing in a way that's similar to what the human brain can do, has been popularized by IBM in recent years. The push comes during a phase of industry-wide investment in artificial intelligence (AI).

"In the future, the market is trending to the point where app development platforms have to exhibit certain new characteristics to enable intelligent and useful apps that come to you, instead of you going to an app," Kinvey cofounder and CEO Sravish Sridhar told CNBC in an email.

Kinvey was founded in 2010 and based in Boston. Over the years Kinvey became known as a key provider of mobile backend as a service, which provides the underlying necessary computing and storage infrastructure for apps, with customers such as Schneider Electric and VMware. The company had raised nearly $18 million in venture capital from investors such as Verizon Ventures and NTT Docomo.

One of Kinvey's competitors, Parse, was acquired by Facebook in 2013 and subsequently shut down.

Kinvey will remain available as a standalone product but will be integrated with existing Progress tools such as NativeScript and DataDirect, wrote Sridhar, who will report to Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta.

Progress acquired predictive maintenance start-up DataRPM for $30 million in March.

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More than one year after three top state officials refused to answer questions in federal court about fraud allegations and nine months after a federal judge held their cabinet secretary in contempt of court, the state Human Services Department (HSD) appears to still be seriously mishandling how it processes federal benefits to New Mexicos poor.

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Now, the advocacy organization representing plaintiffs in a decades-long lawsuit against HSD is asking a judge to impose monetary sanctions on HSD and its secretary, Brent Earnest. The call for sanctions comes over the departments alleged failures to meet federal guidelines on processing Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

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Medicaid is the federal health care program for the poor while SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, provides federal food aid to the poor.

Until the department comes into federal compliance with processing these benefits, the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty wants the judge to fine Earnest $100 a day.

In the meantime, poor New Mexicans are suffering, according to a legal memo filed in federal court this week by the Center.

Eligible New Mexicans are without food and medical assistance because [HSD] has a backlog of tens of thousands of unprocessed cases, the memo reads. The vast majority of clients cannot get through by phone and systemic changes required by multiple court orders have not been enacted.

The current controversy dates to last spring, when the Center argued that HSD was failing to comply with a consent decree from the Debra Hatten-Gonzales v. HSD lawsuit. The lawsuit originally alleged the state failed to adequately process Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Its 1990 settlement set forth new guidelines through the consent decree that the state is required to follow to meet federal law.

The case once again propelled to the forefront last summer after nine employees in HSDs Income Support Division were called to testify by the Center. Before federal court, the employees made shocking allegations of a longstanding department policy to falsify SNAP applications. The workers alleged superiors told them to adding fake assets to emergency SNAP applications so the department could cut down on its backlog of SNAP cases to avoid getting in trouble from the federal government.

A federal judge agreed with the Centers assessment last fall and held Earnest in contempt for failing to follow the consent decree. The court also appointed an independent special master to steer HSD into federal compliance.

But the state department has made shockingly little progress in righting its ship in the six months since the special master came on board, according to the memo.

Lawrence Parker, the special master and former Texas state administrator who District Judge Kenneth Gonzales picked last fall to oversee HSDs handling of federal benefits, is expected to give recommendations to the court Thursday afternoon on how the department should proceed from here. Gonzales scheduled the status conference for the afternoon and required Earnest to attend.

An HSD spokesman, through an automatic email message, referred NM Political Reports questions to a spokesman for Gov. Susana Martinez, who did not answer them before press time.

Multiple deficiencies

The Centers latest memo reveals alleged systematic problems with how HSD responds to requests for help from some of New Mexicos most vulnerable.

The Centers memo lays out problems including:

HSDs lack of a functional phone system in its customer service call center for SNAP and Medicaid applicants and recipients. Currently, the call center answers just 35 percent of its calls from English language speakers and 19 percent of its calls from Spanish speakers.

HSD own illegal directives that restrict access benefits and instruct workers to misrepresent facts, including one order to stop all SNAP and Medicaid interviews after 3:30 p.m. Another order instructs workers to withhold information from applications and give false information about the clients wish to reschedule the interview to their superiors.

The departments proposed new SNAP regulations that contain many errors and delete entire sections that explain verification requirements for non-citizens in apparent violation of federal law.

HSD overall lack of processing SNAP renewal applications in a timely manner, despite progress.

The departments delays on Medicaid applications, which continue to increase. Overdue Medicaid renewals, for example, more than doubled between January and early June from nearly 24,000 to almost 53,000 and then dropped to 38,000 by June 21.

Two HSD administrators, Laura Galindo and Marilyn Martinez, remain employed with the department one year after asserting their Fifth Amendment rights numerous times in court by refusing to answer questions about their involvement in allegedly instructing employees to falsify emergency SNAP applications. Galindo is currently the departments director of child support enforcement while Martinez is chief of the departments financial services bureau in the administrative services division.

Perhaps most serious of these detailed allegations is the revelation of an internal HSD directive from April obtained by the Center.

Illegal policy

The order, written by Customer Service Center Staff Manager Gwen Brubaker, instructs state employees to cease interviews and communications with Medicaid and SNAP recipients and applicants every day at 3:30 p.m. and to lie to the clients and their office superiors about the interview limits.

We discussed in the managers meeting today that we are not going to do interviews after 3:30, effective immediately, Brubaker wrote in the April email to staffers.

She went on to admonish employees for telling applicants the truth about the policy.

We also discussed that we were not saying this to clients, but I have seen 3 emails go out to offices since that that state per directive/instructions interviews are not being done after 3:30, Brubaker wrote. Please make sure that staff are not saying this to the clients, including in emails to offices or in case notes.

And instead of informing the office about the new policy, Brubaker instructed her workers to lie and just say to the client that they are not available and to the office that the client has requested the interview to be rescheduled.

Brubaker ended her with Thank you!

Sovereign Hager, a staff attorney with the Center, sees a lot of problems with the directive.

Off the bat, the policy is wrong. Its illegal, she said in an interview.

Hager added that apart from instructing state employees to lie, the policy to reschedule interviews causes some clients to wait for months to receive the federal benefits for which they are otherwise eligible.

Its just really a horrible tactic thats dishonest, she said.

Its unclear if and to what extent HSD management was aware of or responsible for this policy.

Customer service problems still apparent

A big part of HSDs problems, according to the Centers memo, is that the department doesnt have enough staffers to meet its mission. A June email from HSD to the Center reveals the state has more than 100 vacancies in the departments Income Support Division, which manages federal benefits for New Mexicans.

To fix problems with the customer service phone line, HSD contracted with Conduent, the company formally known as Xerox. Its not clear when the contract, which does not show up in the states Sunshine Portal, will begin.

Hager questioned how effective this contract can be since federal law mandates that only public employees are allowed to work on SNAP benefits.

They cant really do anything on peoples cases because theyre not state employees, Hager said of Conduent.

Altogether, the poor customer service means people get caught in a web of not getting answers to questions, Hager said, and showing up at an HSD office in person is a multi-hour wait.

The departments leadership has apparently suffered as well. After the department demoted ISD Director Marilyn Martinez, who refused to answer questions about her alleged involvement in systemic fraud last year by pleading her Fifth Amendment rights, it left her position unfilled for more than one year.

The Center also argues that HSD is wasting what limited resources it has on new and unneeded programs like requiring more Medicaid patients to pay co-pays for service.

The special master, in some ways, echoed this criticism. In March, Parker recommended HSD cease all efforts to plan, develop or implement new programs, with the exception of programs required by state or federal agencies to meet requirements within regulations.

It isnt clear what, if any, decision Gonzales will make during or after the Thursday hearing.

Parker is ordered to serve as special master through the calendar year. If by then the court finds that HSD is still not in or on its way to federal compliance, the judge could appoint a federal receiver with much broader authority to come in and fix the problems.

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LONDON Britain's progress in tackling climate change is stalling and new strategies and policies are needed to ensure ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts continue, the government's climate advisers said in a report on Thursday.

Britain's greenhouse gas emissions are around 42 percent lower than in 1990, which is around half way towards the government's legally binding target to slash them by 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels, the Committee on Climate Change report said.

The progress so far has been achieved even though gross domestic product has risen by more than 65 percent since 1990.

However, most of the emissions reductions have occurred in the power and waste sectors. Emissions in the transport and building sectors are rising and infrastructure remains vulnerable to severe weather.

"The good news is we have got half way. But the way we have achieved this is almost entirely focused on the power sector," Matthew Bell, chief executive of the committee, told Reuters.

"We cannot extrapolate that to 2050. Power sector emissions have been lowered so much ... We won't get the remaining distance we need if other sectors don't start contributing," he said.

Earlier this week, Britain's new climate change minister, Claire Perry, said the government would publish its Clean Growth Plan - a framework for how Britain will reduce emissions in the 2020s and 2030s - after the parliamentary summer recess.

Parliament closes on July 20 and reconvenes on Sept. 5.

The plan's release was originally scheduled for late 2016. The delay has been criticized by investors who are looking for policy certainty.

Under current policies, Britain is on track to miss its legally-binding emission reduction targets for the mid-2020s onwards, prompting calls for more action in the heat, buildings, industry, transport and agriculture sectors.

The government also needs to present Parliament with detailed measures to address climate risks, such as risks to households and businesses from flooding, so its national adaptation program can be published early next year, the report said.

Britain has experienced significant political upheaval over the past year after a referendum resulted in the move to leave the European Union.

"There is concern Brexit negotiations divert a lot of attention and resources but we also need to think about climate change issues," Bell added.

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BERLIN In the aftermath of Britain's departure from the European Union and the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris climate pact, the bloc's remaining members must take greater responsibility for "existential" challenges the world faces, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Hot, dry weather forecast for Thursday could stoke a fast-growing wildfire in central Arizona that firefighters are struggling to contain, authorities said.

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