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Top UN court says treaties compel wealthy nations to curb global warming

The 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 ago
Europe

ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinion

The 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 ago
Europe

China's Xi vows greater support for Russia in Lavrov meeting

Beijing 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 ago

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US, China vow to enhance climate cooperation at UN talks

The 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 ago
Europe

Massive whale beaches itself in northern France

The fin whale, weighing around 15 tonnes, apparently beached itself after getting injured, a rare phenomenon in the area.

3 years ago
Europe

Germany's seven-day COVID-19 incidence rate rises to record high

The 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
Europe

Young activists take spotlight for a day at UN climate talks

"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 ago
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COP26 sees push to speed up carbon-cutting vows

Currently, 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 ago
Europe

'Frankreich liebt Dich': Macron bids farewell to Merkel

In 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 ago
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Switzerland confident palm-oil deal with Indonesia can help sustainabilty campaign

A 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 ago
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China, Russia hit back after Biden criticises COP26 no-show

Xi -- 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 ago
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Jokowi, Biden meet on sidelines of COP26

President 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
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World leaders in Glasgow for 'last, best hope' climate summit

"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 ago
Europe

G20 disappoints on key climate target as eyes turn to Glasgow

British 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 ago
Europe

G20 agrees on 1.5 degree climate change target: sources

Three 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 ago
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G20 leaders to meet in the shadow of Mussolini's palaces

The 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 ago
Europe

Britih Prime Minister says COP26 'in the balance'

Johnson 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 ago
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Russia reports COVID-19 variant believed to be more contagious than Delta

It 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 ago
Europe

Poland 'keen' to participate in G20 during RI presidency

Poland 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 ago
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Macron calls 1961 massacre of Algerians an 'unforgivable crime'

On 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
Europe

Norway attacker converted to Islam, suspected of radicalisation

"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 ago
Europe

Danish man suspected of killing five with bow-and-arrow in Norway

Two 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 ago
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Macron still favourite in France but faces mounting risks

As 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 ago
Europe

Austria's Kurz steps down over corruption probe to save coalition

The 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 ago
Europe

Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The two were awarded "for their courageous fight for freedom of expression" in their countries

3 years ago
Europe

Unequal Covid-19 jabs roll-out immoral, stupid: UN

The 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 ago
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World's tallest people get that shrinking feeling

So 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 ago
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Greta, press freedom or Belarus opposition for Nobel Peace Prize?

The highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation.

3 years ago
Europe

Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus

* 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 ago
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Prophet Mohammad cartoonist dies in car crash

The 75-year-old and two police officers were killed in a collision with an oncoming truck, Swedish police confirmed to AFP.

3 years ago
Europe

Tony Blair, King of Jordan named in wealth data leak

The 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 ago
Europe

Serial killer suspect found dead after 35 years

The 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 ago
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Aristocrats flock to Russia for first royal wedding in century

Grand 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.

3 years ago
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