Under pressure by EU regulators, Meta said Tuesday it was offering non-paying users of its Facebook and Instagram services in the bloc the ability to do so with less targeted ads, as well as cutting its subscription rates.The move follows the European Commission accusing the US social media giant in July of breaching the bloc’s …
A man killed 35 people and injured 43 more when he ploughed his car into those exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, local police said Tuesday.The toll from the Monday incident was a dramatic increase from the initial report, when police only said that people had been injured, with …
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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered a US defense contractor to pay $42 million in damages to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, their lawyers said.CACI Premier Technology Inc was found liable at the conclusion of a long-running trial for its role in the torture of the three men at the …
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They may be out of a job when Donald Trump takes office in two months, but US officials kept a busy schedule at UN climate talks, reminding jittery countries that global action had survived his first term.President Joe Biden’s lame-duck climate envoy, John Podesta, scurried back and forth to meetings and events across the cavernous …
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Leaders of nations beset by climate disasters appealed Tuesday at the COP29 summit for greater urgency in fighting global warming, while others defended fossil fuels and their right to exploit them.More than 75 leaders are expected to speak over two days in Baku, but the heads of many top polluting nations are giving the crunch …
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At least 15 inmates were killed and 14 injured in clashes Tuesday at a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the latest in a series of massacres blamed on a war between drug cartels.Once seen as a beacon of stability in South America, Ecuador has become one of the world’s most violent nations and …
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They’re some of the world’s smallest nations, but a group of countries that say they absorb more carbon than they emit is demanding attention at the UN COP29 talks.Bhutan, Panama, Madagascar and Suriname rarely make the headlines at the annual climate conference, lost among the rich nations and major emitters that hog the limelight.By banding …
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Donald Trump shaped his incoming cabinet Tuesday — eying a mix of seasoned figures and hard-liners — ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden in what will be his first White House visit since a scandalous exit four years ago.The 78-year-old Republican, who won a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris in last …
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The UK will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81 percent on 1990 levels by 2035, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday, as his government ramps up its ambitions to help curb climate change.The new target is the latest policy change in this area by Starmer’s new Labour government, which took power in July.It …
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Nations have begun setting carbon-cutting targets for the decade ahead, and how ambitious these pledges are could make or break global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.Nearly 200 countries are supposed to publish updated climate plans by early February, but so far only three have done so. On Wednesday, the UK became the latest, …
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