The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours …
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When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she took matters into her own hands and poured her savings into starting a business.Two-and-a-half years after putting 20,000 Afghanis ($300) earned from teaching sewing classes into a carpet weaving enterprise, she now employs around a dozen women who …
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After three sleepless nights of back and forth among negotiators, all it took to seal a contentious global deal on climate finance was the hammering of a gavel. And just as quickly, the denunciations began.In a year expected to be the hottest on record, the fate of the fight against climate change was haggled over …
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Forced to flee Iran, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof says it is bittersweet that his latest movie will contend at the Oscars — under the banner of another country.”The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a paranoid thriller that was shot in secret and depicts a family torn apart by Iran’s brutally repressive politics, has earned rave …
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Australia has ditched plans to fine social media companies if they fail to stem the spread of misinformation, the country’s communications minister said Sunday. The proposed legislation outlined sweeping powers to fine tech companies up to five percent of their yearly turnover if they breached new online safety obligations. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said she had dumped …
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The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours …
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Tens of thousands demonstrated in major French cities Saturday against violence targeting women, as campaigners push for the country to learn from a mass rape trial that has shocked the public.The prosecution in the southern city Avignon is in its final stages for 51 men, including one who drugged his wife over the course of …
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Venezuelan opposition leaders called Saturday for mass protests on December 1 against President Nicolas Maduro’s contested reelection, as his government claimed it had uncovered another alleged “destabilization” plot and made arrests.”We have to act now,” opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said in a virtual meeting with other activists.She said mass demonstrations would be held in …
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The UN’s marathon climate summit neared the finish line early Sunday, with nations due to approve or reject a hotly-disputed deal for wealthy historic emitters to provide at least $300 billion to poorer countries that had demanded much more.After an exhausting two weeks of negotiations in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea capital of Baku, COP29 president Mukhtar …
Lebanon said Israeli air strikes on Saturday killed more than 55 people, many of them in central Beirut, as Israel’s defence minister vowed decisive action against Hezbollah, in a call with his US counterpart.On Israel’s second front, the more than 13-month war with Hamas militants in Gaza, rescuers said pre-dawn Israeli air strikes and tank fire …
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