By Jake Spring and Simon Jessop SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – The world’s largest food trading companies detailed a plan on Monday to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains for soy, beef and palm oil by 2025, a step seen as essential to averting catastrophic climate change. Destruction of forests – like the Amazon rainforest …
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By Hereward Holland and Tommy Wilkes NAIROBI (Reuters) -The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces have established a telephone hotline to help maintain a ceasefire struck last week, and both sides met in Kenya on Monday for a new round of talks on implementing the truce. Ethiopia’s government and regional forces from Tigray agreed last Wednesday …
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(Reuters) – World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the COP27 U.N. climate summit in Egypt, where they hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Here are some of the latest comments by those attending: UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES “Greenhouse gas emissions …
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By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Sunday the fight for women’s rights was a “continuous struggle”, and condemned male chauvinism as deadly for humanity and female genital mutilation as a crime that must be stopped. Speaking to reporters on the plane returning from a four-day trip to predominantly Muslim …
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By Kate Abnett (Reuters) – Nearly 200 countries gathering for the U.N. climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disasters. The COP27 summit follows a year of such disasters, from floods that killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan to …
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By Steve Keating (Reuters) – Yordan Alvarez crushed a three-run homer to power the Houston Astros past the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Saturday, claiming their second World Series title in six years and first since a sign-stealing scandal in 2017 tarnished their crown. After falling behind 2-1 in the best-of-seven series the Astros roared back …
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(Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s U.S. administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported. FIGHTING, CONFLICT * The White House National Security Council had no immediate comment …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the …
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By Joseph Campbell BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Residents of the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut are living in dire conditions, with civilians killed and wounded daily, the deputy mayor said on Saturday, as fighting between Russian troops and Ukraine’s forces rages around the city. Bakhmut has been an important target for Russia’s military in …
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By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition team has invited two economists, Persio Arida and Andre Lara Resende, who helped design the Real Plan that stabilized the economy in the 1990s, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday. The sources, who spoke on condition anonymity, …
