Negotiators were struggling to reach a deal Saturday at UN climate talks in Baku. If they fail, it would not be the first time.Since the first UN climate conference in 1995, several of the annual sessions have descended into acrimony or even failed completely because of a lack of consensus. COP6 in The Hague in 2000 …
Lebanon said an Israeli air strike in the heart of Beirut that brought down a residential building and jolted residents across the city killed at least 11 people on Saturday. The attack in the capital was followed by others in the city’s southern suburbs after calls by the Israeli military to evacuate the area.Israel has not …
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Pope Francis will visit the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on December 15, just days after skipping the reopening of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral which was ravaged by a fire in 2019, the Vatican said Saturday.French President Emmanuel Macron had invited the 87-year-old pontiff to attend the Notre Dame reopening ceremony in Paris on December …
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An Israeli air strike in central Beirut killed at least 11 people early Saturday, bringing down a residential building and jolting residents across the city out of bed as Israel kept up its air campaign against Hezbollah.The attack was followed by others in the city’s southern suburbs after calls by Israel’s military to evacuate the …
At least 32 people were killed and 47 wounded in sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan, an official told AFP on Saturday, two days after attacks on Shiite passenger convoys killed 43.Sporadic fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan has killed around 150 over the past months.”Fighting between Shiite …
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’ security detail has been put on alert over what his office is calling an “active threat” against his life by Vice President Sara Duterte, the palace said Saturday.The statement followed an expletive-laced press conference in which Duterte alleged she was the subject of an assassination plot and said she ordered a …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic missile launched at Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat.The latest statements from the leaders came hours after Ukraine’s parliament shut down over heightened fears of a missile attack.A day after Moscow fired the new …
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The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case on Friday delayed his sentencing indefinitely, in what the president-elect’s team called a “decisive win” as he prepares to return to the White House.Trump, who was to have been sentenced on November 26, fought to block that proceeding before he succeeds Joe Biden in January.”The joint …
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir held an urgent meeting of top security brass on Friday after a shootout at the home of powerful former spy chief Akol Koor, who was sacked almost two months ago amid rumours of a coup plot.Gunfire erupted on Thursday evening in the capital Juba, sparking concerns about the stability of …
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Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President Emmanuel Macron closely following the case. Boualem Sansal, a major figure in francophone modern literature, is known for his strong stances against both authoritarianism and Islamism …
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