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Brazil hopes COP30 in Amazon can unite world for climate action

Some 50,000 attendees are expected at the two-week COP30 conference starting November 10 in Belem, a city in one of Brazil's poorer states best known as a gateway to the Amazon rainforest.

1 day ago
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Brazil 'frustrated' with delays in climate commitments

Brazil, which will host the United Nations climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, was among the first to update its NDCs a year ago. But many others have missed even the latest September deadline, amid geopolitical and trade tensions that have distracted from climate action. ...

2 days ago
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US threatens visa restrictions, sanctions against nations backing shipping emissions plan

UN member nations are scheduled to vote next week on the International Maritime Organization's Net-Zero Framework proposal to reduce global carbon dioxide gas emissions from the international shipping sector, which accounts for close to 3 percent of global greenhouse gases. ...

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McDonald's worker shot in New York over cold fries

Multiple gunshot incidents occur daily in the Big Apple.

3 years ago
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Iván Duque: Always contributing for the good of Colombia

Outgoing Colombian President Iván Duque speaks with The Jakarta Post’s M. Taufiqurrahman about his time in office and what he considers to be his legacy in this excerpt of an interview in late July.

3 years ago
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Indonesia to lobby UN over lacking supervision of nuclear technology

In its submission for an upcoming conference, the Indonesian government said it “notes with concern the potential consequences” that transferring nuclear submarine technology could have for the global non-proliferation regime.

3 years ago
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Biden feeling well, isolating after rebound case of COVID

Biden tested positive for COVID again on Saturday in what the White House doctor described as a "rebound" case seen in a small percentage of patients who take the antiviral drug Paxlovid. 

3 years ago
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Biden again tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation

Biden "tested positive late Saturday morning, by antigen testing," following four consecutive days of negative tests, and "will reinitiate strict isolation procedures," presidential physician Kevin O'Connor wrote in a memorandum.

3 years ago
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Biden tests negative for COVID, ending isolation: doctor

"His symptoms have been steadily improving, and are almost completely resolved," the physician, Kevin O'Connor, said in a statement, noting that the president tested negative by antigen testing Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.

3 years ago
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US Justice Department probing Trump's efforts to overturn election

The Justice Department has been interviewing former White House officials, including the former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, who confirmed on Monday that he had testified to a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. 

3 years ago
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Populism 'greater danger' than left versus right, says Colombian President

Colombia's center-right President Iván Duque spoke to The Jakarta Post on Monday night about his views on populist politicians and a little about his plans after he leaves office in August.

3 years ago
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In Brazil, Lloyd Austin to call on region's militaries to respect democracy

Those expected remarks - while not specifically directed at Brazil - are likely to turn heads there ahead of its Oct. 2 election, where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro formally launched his re-election bid on Sunday by saying "the Army is on our side."

3 years ago
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Jared Kushner writes he had thyroid cancer

According to excerpts of the book seen by Reuters, Kushner wrote that White House physician Sean Conley pulled him aside on Air Force One as Trump flew to Texas to tell him his test results from Walter Reed Medical Center showed he had cancer and "we need to schedule a surgery right away."

3 years ago
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Biden's COVID-19 symptoms "almost completely resolved"

Biden, who showed up online for a meeting with government officials in the afternoon, told reporters that he thinks he is on his way to "total recovery" and was hopeful that envisioned talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place, likely online or by phone, later this week.

3 years ago
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California wildfire rages as US bakes in record-setting heat wave

The heat wave encompassing multiple regions has increased the risk of blazes, such as the major Oak Fire, which broke out Friday in California near Yosemite National Park, where giant sequoias have already been threatened by flames in recent days.

3 years ago
Americas

Monkeypox outbreak can be contained, White House says

"I think monkeypox can be contained, absolutely," doctor Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, told CBS News talk show "Face the Nation."

3 years ago
Americas

Biden's health improving, no close contacts tested positive for COVID

Jha told ABC News Biden "had a great day yesterday, was feeling well," and that Biden's close contacts were continuing to follow the protocols of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

3 years ago
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Biden has sore throat and body aches: physician

Biden's lungs remain clear and his oxygen saturation "continues to be excellent on room air," the doctor said.

3 years ago
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Biden's COVID-19 symptoms improved after taking antiviral pill

"President Biden completed his first full day of Paxlovid last night," O'Connor said in a memorandum, referring to the oral COVID-19 pill developed by Pfizer. "His symptoms have improved," the doctor said.

3 years ago
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Trump should be held accountable for trying to overturn 2020 election: committee

Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised finale of a series of public hearings into the attack, said Trump "recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption" as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 US election.

3 years ago
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Biden says 'doing great' after positive COVID-19 test

Biden's personal physician Kevin O'Connor wrote in an official note that the US president was experiencing fatigue, a runny nose and an occasional dry cough, starting on Wednesday evening.

3 years ago
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Mercosur trade bloc denies Zelensky request to address summit: Paraguay

Bloc members Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay failed to reach an agreement on Zelensky's request, made to the host country last week, according to deputy foreign minister Raul Cano, who declined to say which states were against it.

3 years ago
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Gunman kills three in Indiana mall before being shot by armed bystander

Two other people were injured in the incident, which took place in the early evening at Greenwood Park Mall, the Indianapolis Star reported.

3 years ago
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It's time for Trump to 'sail into the sunset,' says Musk

Writing on Twitter, Musk said, "I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset." 

3 years ago
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Police arrest suspect after gunman kills six at US July 4 parade

Robert Crimo, 22, was identified as a "person of interest" and became the target of a massive manhunt across the town of Highland Park in Illinois, where a rooftop gunman with a high-powered rifle turned a family-focused July 4 parade celebration into a scene of death and trauma.

3 years ago
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Footage shows Ohio officers killed unarmed Black man in hail of bullets

Police played multiple videos at a news conference, one of which they said showed a gunshot being fired from the car driven by Jayland Walker, 25. He fled in his car after officers attempted to pull him over for a minor traffic violation.

3 years ago
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Trump lunged at driver to try to join Capitol riot: aide

In some of the most explosive testimony so far to the House committee probing the violence, Cassidy Hutchinson, an assistant to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, said the president had demanded to be taken to the Capitol after his speech near the White House.

3 years ago
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U.S. abortion ruling ignites legal battles over state bans

The six are among the 13 states with "trigger laws" designed to ban or severely restrict abortions once the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized a right to the procedure.

3 years ago
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To charge or not to charge: the Trump dilemma roiling America

In their comments to the congressional committee investigating the deadly violence, White House and Trump campaign staff, lawyers and even family members have drawn the contours of a possible prosecution, outlining potential presidential misconduct culminating in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

3 years ago
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Fresh protests as new US abortion reality takes shape

The deeply polarized country grappled with a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined since 1973, and those that still allow it.

3 years ago
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Lula holds wide lead over incumbent Bolsonaro: poll

Forty-seven percent of those polled by the Datafolha consulting firm said they intended to support Lula in the presidential election, compared to only 28 percent for Bolsonaro.

3 years ago
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Passenger jet catches fire while landing at Miami airport

Three people were hospitalized after the crash of Red Air Flight 203 late Tuesday, according to Miami-Dade fire officials, but no deaths or serious injuries have been reported among those on board.

3 years ago
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No relief as heat wave in US moves east

The National Weather Service told Americans to gird for another day of well above normal, near-record or even record-breaking heat from the central Plains to the Upper Midwest.

3 years ago
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