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G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing
Leaders of the world’s biggest economies made a vague commitment Sunday to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit in Rome.
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Nearly half the Afghan evacuees are children. Here are photos of kids coming through Philadelphia.
The operation has slowed down, but planes carrying hundreds evacuated from Afghanistan are still arriving at PHL.
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G-20 opens with call for more vaccines for poor countries
The leaders of the world’s economic powers are taking part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic.
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UN: Greenhouse gas emissions hit a new record in 2020
The United Nations climate office warns that the world remains off target for meeting its goal of cutting emissions as part of international efforts to curb global warming.
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Sudan’s military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister
The military takeover threatens to derail Sudan’s long, rocky attempt to transition to democracy two years after protesters forced the ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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Colombia has captured one of the world’s most wanted drug lords, Dairo Antonio Úsuga
Úsuga for years flew under the radar of authorities by eschewing the high profile of Colombia's better known narcos.
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Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own
Scientists in South Africa are trying to re-create Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, making an end-run around an industry that has prioritized rich countries over poor.
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Del. State University joins federal effort to ‘feed the future’ and fight global hunger
Delaware State is the first HBCU to join the U.S. Agency for International Development’s effort to fight food insecurity in Africa and elsewhere.
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UN study: Planned fossil fuel production ‘dangerously out of sync’ with emissions goals
The report also found that 20 major economies have invested more into new fossil fuel projects than into clean energy since the start of 2020.
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We discuss the kidnappings, violence and instability plaguing Haiti and the crisis facing Haitians migrants at the U.S. border.
Air Date: October 19, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:00‘He was Southend’: Tributes paid to slain British lawmaker
Leaders from across Britain's political spectrum have come together to pay tribute to David Amess who was stabbed to death in what police have described as a terrorist attack.
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United States commits another 17 million COVID vaccine doses to the African Union
The U.S. donation from its domestic supplies comes on top of the 50 million doses previously donated to Africa, which world health officials say is 500 million doses short of
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Energy agency urges bigger global push to cut emissions
The International Energy Agency warns the world isn't on track to contain climate change and that new investment is needed to “jolt the energy system onto a new set of rails."
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