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GLASGOW: Tuvalu’s foreign minister has filmed a video address to be shown at a UN climate summit on Tuesday standing thigh deep in seawater and pleading for help as his country slips beneath rising oceans. In the video, Simon Kofe tells delegates that “climate change and sea-level rise are deadly and existential risks for Tuvalu and low-lying atoll nations”. “We …

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