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Here's how Jordan's royal wedding will reverberate across the region and beyond

May. 31, 2023 23:39 PM EDT

The Middle Eastern country of Jordan is set to host its biggest royal wedding in years on Thursday as the country’s young Crown Prince Hussein exchanges vows with Rajwa Alseif, daughter of one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest and most influential families. With a VIP list that...

Editorial Roundup: United States

May. 31, 2023 07:44 AM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 28 The Washington Post on the debt limit Finally, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) have reached a deal to avert an embarrassing — and potentially...

Biden administration invests in carbon capture, upping pressure on industry to show results

May. 17, 2023 23:12 PM EDT

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reduce planet-warming pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities. The announcement represents a vote of confidence by the government in the...

Kerry challenges oil industry to prove its promised tech rescue for climate-wrecking emissions

May. 17, 2023 09:05 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time is here for the industry to prove it can make the technology happen — at...

Climate talks see push for global renewable energy target

May. 02, 2023 10:54 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany called Tuesday for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would “ring in the end of the fossil fuel age” and help prevent dangerous global warming. Speaking at the start of a two-day meeting in Berlin...

Slow start on World Bank reform angers climate-hit countries

Apr. 17, 2023 13:59 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank meetings were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change like Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s Barbados, one of many Caribbean islands battered by worsening hurricanes. But if this...

Climate envoy Kerry: No rolling back clean energy transition

Apr. 16, 2023 08:00 AM EDT

SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — So much has been invested in clean energy that there can be no rolling back of moves to end carbon emissions, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Sunday. Kerry noted that if countries deliver on promises to phase out polluting fossil fuels, the world can limit...

Today in History: April 12, Civil War begins

Apr. 12, 2023 00:02 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2023. There are 263 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. ...