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Belem, host of next year's climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence

Nov. 20, 2024 00:09 AM EST

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the Amazon. The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming...

What to know from the UN: Leaders speak of emerging threats, hints of war as big meeting nears

Sep. 24, 2024 02:40 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The security cordons are up. The streets are ready to be sealed off. Aircraft from myriad nations are landing in New York. It all means one thing for the eastern part of Manhattan: The yearly gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is at hand. ...

EU: Maduro has not shown 'necessary public evidence' to declare victory in Venezuela elections

Aug. 24, 2024 23:43 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The European Union's top diplomat on Saturday said that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has still “not provided the necessary public evidence” to prove he was the winner of July’s elections, days after the country’s Supreme Court backed the government’s disputed...