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AP Week in Pictures: Global | Nov. 10 - Nov. 16, 2023
NOVEMBER 10 - 16, 2023 Caimans crowd the banks of the Bento Gomes River amid droughts in Brazil. People protest against the approval of a mining contract in Panama. President Joe Biden gives a speech on Veterans Day in Arlington, Virginia. And climate activist Greta Thunberg dances...

Greta Thunberg denies public order offense after she was arrested at a London protest
LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday denied a public order offense after she was arrested last month at a demonstration against a major oil and gas industry conference in London. The 20-year-old Swedish environmental campaigner was among more than two dozen...

Greta Thunberg brushes off interruption at massive Dutch climate march days before election
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital. Thunberg was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands when...

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds
The badges said they were there to participate in negotiations to curb climate change. They stated affiliations like the government of Brazil, Indigenous organizations of the Amazon, the Climate Registry. But in reality, the livelihoods of these participants were more aligned with what's keeping...

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
Oct. 13-19, 2023 Protests in Turkey erupt and people pray at a mosque in Greece as the Israel-Hamas war progresses. People vote in Poland's general election. Portugal soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates as his national team wins against Slovakia in a Euro 2024...

Greta Thunberg charged with public order offense in UK after arrest outside oil industry conference
LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with a public order offense after being arrested at a demonstration against an oil and gas industry conference in London. The Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that the 20-year-old Swedish campaigner was one of...

Greta Thunberg was among climate activists detained at a protest to disrupt oil executives' forum
LONDON (AP) — Greta Thunberg was detained by British police on Tuesday alongside other climate activists who gathered outside a central London hotel to disrupt a major oil and gas industry conference. Thunberg was among dozens of protesters who chanted “oily money out” and...

Norway activists press on with their protest against wind farm on land used by herders
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of activists in Norway on Thursday blocked the entrance to one of the main operators of a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer, At the center of the dispute are the 151 turbines of Europe’s largest...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg fined again for a climate protest in Sweden
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court on Wednesday fined climate activist Greta Thunberg once again for disobeying police during an environmental protest in July in southern Sweden. The Malmo District Court ordered her to pay a 2,250 kroner ($206) fine. Thunberg, who...

Top warming talks official hopes for 'course correction' and praises small steps in climate efforts
NEW YORK (AP) — A top official helping to oversee upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong — and surprise them with a “course correction” for an ever-warming world. But don't expect that big a turn. Adnan Amin, the CEO and No. 2...
