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Harris focuses on shaping a post-conflict Gaza during a diplomatic blitz in Dubai with Arab leaders
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a speed round of diplomatic talks with Arab leaders on Saturday where she focused on shaping the outlook for a post-conflict Gaza while calling on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians from the...
US targets oil and natural gas industry's role in global warming with new rule on methane emissions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Joe Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy. The Environmental Protection...
Don't ignore us: Backed by pope, poorer nations use COP28 summit to press rich world on climate
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope's blessing. Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday's high-level speeches at the U.N. climate summit to press rich industrial countries...
Takeaways from Friday's events at UN climate conference known as COP28
Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference, known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planet's climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others should do. It was also a day of...
Top world leaders talk of climate crisis at UN summit. They say they must act on fossil fuels, war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dozens of world leaders said they know the planet's dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse. The next step is to turn their soaring rhetoric voiced at the beginning of the United Nations climate conference into action. ...
Police searching for two people accused in FBI agent carjacking in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police are searching for two people on Thursday after an FBI agent was carjacked earlier this week in Washington D.C., as the nation's capital copes with a spike in carjackings. Investigators are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the...
Pressure builds to eliminate fossil fuel use as oil executive, under fire, takes over climate talks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pressure to phase out fossil fuels mounted Thursday on the oil company chief who took over fragile international climate negotiations that opened in Dubai amid concerns about what some say are contradictory dual roles. United Nations and climate...
On 1st day, UN climate conference sets up fund for countries hit by disasters like flood and drought
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world just took a big step toward compensating countries hit by deadly floods, heat and droughts. Nearly all nations on Thursday finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by...
UN weather agency says 2023 is the hottest year on record, warns of further climate extremes ahead
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future. The World Meteorological...
A look at what to expect as latest UN climate talks get under way in oil-rich UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over the next two weeks, with countries hoping to agree on new ways to keep the planet from heating too much by the end of the century. Distractions abound, most notably war between Israel...
