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View all search resultsThe United Nations' highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate change.
1 day agoThe world's top court will Wednesday deliver a seminal ruling laying out what legal obligations countries have to prevent climate change and whether polluters should pay up for the consequences. ...
2 days agoBeijing and Moscow should work to "unite countries of the global South and promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction", Xi said, according to Xinhua. ...
1 week agoThe show of cooperation between the world's two largest carbon dioxide emitters came as they prepare for a virtual meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with US political news website Politico reporting that the event is tentatively scheduled for Monday evening.
3 years agoThe fin whale, weighing around 15 tonnes, apparently beached itself after getting injured, a rare phenomenon in the area.
3 years agoThe figure, published by Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI), surpasses the last high, which had been 197.6 reached on December 22, 2020.
3 years ago"We're expecting lots of people to come and join us in the streets, and not only youth but also adults supporting youth, and adults that want climate action,” said activist Isabelle Axelsson, 20, with the youth movement Fridays For Future, which is organising the march, to be led by Greta Thunberg.
3 years agoCurrently, the nearly 200 nations that submitted voluntary emissions-reduction schemes under the 2015 Paris Agreement have agreed to update those plans every five years, a process described as a "ratchet mechanism".
3 years agoIn a gesture of thanks to Merkel for her contribution to Franco-German relations that has seen her deal with four presidents of France, Macron treated her to a visit to the French town of Beaune in the wine-growing Bourgogne region.
3 years agoA visiting Swiss delegation has expressed confidence that the free trade agreement (FTA) with EFTA countries, a group which comprises the Alpine country, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein could spur further reform in the country.
3 years agoXi -- who leads the planet's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change -- has not travelled outside of China since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and has not joined world leaders for COP26.
3 years agoPresident Joko Widodo and United States counterpart Joe Biden finally met for in-person talks on the sidelines of the COP26 climate summit in Scotland, in efforts to normalize bilateral relations that have remained stagnant over the past few years.
3 years ago"It's one minute to midnight and we need to act now," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was due to tell them, according to extracts from his speech.
3 years agoBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the host of the COP26 summit that opened on Sunday, said the pledge from world leaders after two days of talks in Rome was "not enough", and warned of the dire consequences for the planet.
3 years agoThree sources told AFP that diplomats had approved language for a final summit communique going beyond what was agreed six years ago, when the landmark climate deal called for capping global warming at well below 2 degrees, and ideally closer to 1.5 degrees.
3 years agoThe summit of the world's major economies will be held away from Rome city centre, home to the Colosseum and the Pantheon, where the tourists, historic buildings and tiny streets pose a nightmare for security and access.
3 years agoJohnson will host more than 120 leaders in Glasgow early next week, before the UN meeting spends a fortnight tackling the grinding work of deciding how to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
3 years agoIt is possible that the AY.4.2 variant will spread widely, RIA quoted the state consumer watchdog's senior researcher Kamil Khafizov as saying.
3 years agoPoland has expressed enthusiasm for Indonesia's upcoming G20 presidency and participating as a dialogue partner by sharing Warsaw's experiences in renewables and digital governance.
3 years agoOn Oct. 17, 1961, under the orders of then Paris police chief Maurice Papon, police attacked a demonstration by 25,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians protesting against a curfew imposed on Algerians.
3 years ago"There were fears linked to radicalisation previously," Norwegian police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters, adding that police had followed up on him in 2020.
3 years agoTwo people, including an off-duty police officer, were wounded in the Wednesday evening attacks, which took place in different locations in the town, 68 km (42 miles) southwest of the capital, Oslo.
3 years agoAs the countdown begins to the first round on April 10 next year the centrist Macron can no longer be sure that the run-off two weeks later will be a repeat of the 2017 duel with far-right leader Marine Le Pen, which he won easily.
3 years agoThe move by Kurz, who denies wrongdoing, satisfied the demand by his junior coalition partner, the Greens, that he go even though he plans to stay on as his party's leader and become its top lawmaker in parliament, positions from which he can continue to influence government policy.
3 years agoThe two were awarded "for their courageous fight for freedom of expression" in their countries
3 years agoThe World Health Organization said every country that had fully immunised more than 40 percent of its population was doing too little to stop the Covid-19 crisis, as they should be ensuring doses go to nations left wide open to the virus.
3 years agoSo an official study by the Dutch national statistics office finding that they appear to be shrinking might be construed as good news -- even if it could threaten the Netherlands' number one spot.
3 years agoThe highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation.
3 years ago* The European Union's drugs regulator said people with weakened immune systems should get a third dose of a vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna, but left it to member states to decide if the wider population should get a booster.
3 years agoThe 75-year-old and two police officers were killed in a collision with an oncoming truck, Swedish police confirmed to AFP.
3 years agoThe dump of more than 11.9 million records, amounting to about 2.94 terabytes of data, came five years after the leak known as the "Panama Papers" exposed how money was hidden by the wealthy in ways that law enforcement agencies could not detect.
3 years agoThe man, nicknamed "Le Grele" ("pockmarked"), had been wanted by police since the 1980s for the murder and rape of young girls, but was never caught.
3 years agoGrand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, 40, and his Italian fiance Rebecca Virginia Bettarini, 39, were preparing to say their vows at Saint Isaac's cathedral in the former imperial capital Saint Petersburg in the presence of dozens of European royals.
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