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Negotiators at this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call to end all use of coal and phase out fossil fuel subsidies completely.The latest draft proposal from the meeting’s chair released Friday calls on countries to accelerate “the phase-out of...
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Thousands marched in Warsaw on Thursday to mark Poland’s Independence Day, led by far-right groups calling for strong borders, while its troops blocked hundreds of new attempts by migrants to enter the country illegally from neighboring Belarus in a tense standoff.Security forces patrolled the...
Russia sent two nuclear-capable strategic bombers on a training mission over Belarus for a second straight day on Thursday in a strong show of Moscow’s support for its ally amid a dispute over migration at the Polish border.The Belarusian Defense Ministry said two Russian Tu-160 strategic bomb...
Anticipation had been building for hours, but never more than now, as the red numerals on the countdown clock disappeared and the first synthesized notes vibrated. An image of an eagle in a fireball hovered above the stage, a neon red tunnel appeared and eight towers of flames rose to the sky. Leapi...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that people have a duty to get vaccinated against the coronavirus to protect others.She spoke as Germany grapples with a new surge of infections, which reached a record daily high of 50,000 on Thursday.Merkel talked for 30 minutes with New Zealand Prime Mi...
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Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks are considering a draft decision that highlights “alarm and concern” about global warming the planet already is experiencing and continues to call on the world to cut about half of its emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2030.The early vers...
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India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance.India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan ...
When he was in the White House, Donald Trump referred to Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” But for President Joe Biden, the city is the first stop Wednesday in what probably will be a national tour to showcase his agenda.At the Port of Baltimore, Biden plans to l...
Top Israeli defense officials say the country is preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict with regional arch-rival Iran and its proxies.Israeli army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi said Tuesday that the Israeli military was “speeding up the operational plans and readiness for dea...
The European Union’s drug regulator said Wednesday that it has started evaluating whether to authorize Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, a decision that could significantly open up Covid-19 vaccination across the continent for young children.The Amsterdam-based Europe...
A federal judge rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.In denying a preliminary injunction, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Tuesday that Congress had a strong public interest in obtain...
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have a rare virtual encounter this week as they gather online with other Pacific Rim leaders to chart a path to recovery out of the crisis brought on by the pandemic.New Zealand is hosting this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Coop...
At 19, Glasgow college student Ross Hamilton doesn’t think highly of world leaders — “they chat a lot of” nonsense — or expect them to accomplish anything on a problem he cares deeply about, climate change.But there is one former world leader Hamilton trusts, at least e...
With pressure growing for decisive action out of this year’s UN climate talks, Barack Obama is bringing his political weight to bear Monday on negotiators for nearly 200 governments, urging them to greater ambition in cutting climate-wrecking emissions and dealing with the mounting damage.The ...
Sudan’s security forces dispersed demonstrators and rounded up more than 100 people Sunday in the capital of Khartoum, in the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters after last month’s military coup.The Sudanese military seized power Oct. 25, dissolving the transitional government a...
The capital of the United Arab Emirates has issued new rules governing divorce, inheritance and child custody for non-Muslims in Abu Dhabi, the country’s state-run news agency reported.The report on Sunday by the WAM news agency said Abu Dhabi would create a new court to handle these cases, wh...
A new round of deadly attacks and forced conscription has begun against ethnic Tigrayans in an area of Ethiopia now controlled by Amhara regional authorities in collaboration with soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, people fleeing over the border to Sudan tell The Associated Press as the yearlong war...
Pakistan said Monday it has lifted a ban on a radical Islamist party behind a violent anti-France protest last month that triggered clashes with police, leaving six officers and four demonstrators dead.The development follows an agreement reached last week between the government of Prime Minister Im...
Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station.Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s main module on Sunday evening, spending more than six hours outside installing equipment and carry...
John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful UN climate summit. President Joe Biden’s envoy at the talks in Glasgow, Kerry steams from side talks with US rivals China and Russia that painstakingly probe for common ground on climate to news conferences extolling progress. Kerry pops in...
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