The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems. Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle- or high-income […]
SYDNEY, Nov 1 – French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him over the cancellation of a submarine building contract in September, and indicated more efforts were required to rebuild trust between the two allies. In Rome for the G20 summit, the two leaders were […]
GLASGOW, Scotland — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened a global climate summit Monday, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device.” Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth’s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and […]
ROME — President Joe Biden said Sunday a new U.S. and European Union trade agreement would crack down on “dirty steel” that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs. Biden and European Commission […]
Summary World eyes Glasgow for new pledges of climate action UN chief Guterres says ‘serious risk’ of failure Current action not enough to avert future hothouse world GLASGOW, Oct 31 (Reuters) – The United Nations COP26 summit that starts in Glasgow this week has been billed as a […]
Oct 31 – Making a final assessment of the progress achieved over the two weeks of the COP26 talks in Glasgow will be complex. Unlike past climate summits, the event won’t deliver a new treaty or one big “win”. Rather, it will attempt to produce a myriad of […]
Summary G20 pledges to phase out coal power “as soon possible” -official We must act now on climate change, says G20 chair Draghi Summit seen as vital stepping stone to COP26 ROME, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final […]
LAGOS, Nigeria — Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author, sees his country’s many problems — misgoverning politicians, systemic corruption, violent extremists, and kidnapping bandits — yet he does not despair. At 87, he says Nigeria’s youth may have the energy and the know-how to get the troubled country back […]
GLASGOW, Scotland — The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow opened Sunday with appeals for action and prayers, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of intensifying global warming. Following the opening gavel Sunday, leaders from around the […]
VATICAN CITY, Oct 30 – Pope Francis has accepted an invitation from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit, in a turnaround in relations with the Vatican following the failure of negotiations for a papal trip to the predominantly Hindu nation in 2017. There are about 20 million […]
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