Climate talks need to include governance rules to handle billions being pledged: minister

united-nationsofficials and diplomats from the world’s most environment” target=”_blank”>climate-polluting<, Italy’s climate minister said Friday. “Paradoxically, I don’t think there is a problem of money. It is more the rules, and the strategy,” Minister for Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani told The Associated Press. NASA STUDY: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON WORLD’S CROPS EXPECTED WITHIN NEXT DECADE He…

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COVID strikes Kiribati: One of the last uninfected places on Earth

When the infectious-disease began spreading around the worlda>, the remote Pacific archipelago of Kiribati closed its borders, ensuring the <a href="https: didn’t reach its shores for nearly two full years. Kiribati finally began reopening this month, allowing the religion” target=”_blank”>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints< to bring home 54 of the island nation’s citizens….

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Olympics committee plans meeting with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai during Beijing Winter Olympics

The International olympics” target=”_blank”>Olympic< tennis” target=”_blank”>tennis< for two weeks in November.  An IOC spokesperson told the AFP that the governing body has “kept in touch with (Peng)” and had spoken to her as recently as “just the past week.” Peng reportedly told the IOC she was looking forward to the games and to meeting IOC…

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Residents of 'Little Odessa' neighborhood worry about war between Russia and Ukraine, call conflict 'stupid'

NEW YORK – Residents in New York City’s Little Odessa neighborhood told Fox News they believe the U.S. should stay out of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine but acknowledged the possibility of war between the two neighboring countries.  “We shouldn’t get involved into other people’s business,” Anton, a Ukrainian-American, told Fox News. “I think…

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Sweden declines to recommend vaccinating kids under 12: ‘We don't see any clear benefit’

Sweden’s government has declined to recommend infectious-disease children under 12 years old for infectious-disease after determining there would be little medical benefit for doing so. The Public Healtha> Agency of <a href="https: said in a press release Thursday that the medical benefit for an individual child aged 5-11 who has received a general vaccination against…

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Photos show Ukrainian schoolchildren learning about explosives ahead of potential Russian invasion

Images have emerged Thursday of police officers showing explosives to conflicts schoolchildren as concerns persist about a potential Russian military invasion.  The photos were taken in the country’s capital of Kiev during a police-organized civilian safety lesson, according to the Associated Press.  Elsewhere around Ukraine, hundreds have joined a campaign on social networks under the hashtag #UkrainiansWillResist to…

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Iraqi national pleads guilty to defrauding US refugee program: Justice Dept.

A world-regions national has pleaded guilty to defrauding U.S. refugee programs, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Aws Muwafaq Abduljabbar, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, according to a department news release. Abduljabbar is accused of leading the conspiracy, which involved two other foreign nationals and used “sensitive, non-public information” to…

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