Donald Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement

US President faces worldwide criticism for decision to withdraw from historic global climate change deal

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Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate pact, citing the "draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country".

The decision to join Syria and Nicaragua, the only two nations that have not signed the agreement, "is a remarkable rebuke to heads of state, climate activists, corporate executives and members of the president's own staff, who all failed to change his mind with an intense, last-minute lobbying blitz", says the New York Times.

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