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Over 100 countries vow to end deforestation at climate talks

Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 11:49 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made...

Leaders dial up doomsday warning to kick-start climate talks

Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 06:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations. The metaphors were...

UK's Johnson warns of 'doomsday' as climate summit begins

Monday, 1 November 2021, 14:43 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

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...

COVID-19's global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

Monday, 1 November 2021, 13:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

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...

G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 16:54 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies made a vague commitment Sunday to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day Rome summit that was laying...

Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 16:52 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses...

Greece says ship with about 400 migrants at 'safe anchorage'

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 06:57 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A small cargo ship carrying about 400 mostly Afghan migrants and refugees was towed Saturday to “a safe anchorage” off the Greek island of Kos near the Turkish coast, Greece’s coast...

G-20 endorses global corporate minimum tax at Rome summit

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 06:55 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid...

G-20 opens with call for more vaccines for poor countries

Saturday, 30 October 2021, 14:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses on Saturday took part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 economic recovery and the global...

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