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G20 leaders struggle to secure climate breakthrough at Rome summit
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies holding their first face-to-face summit in two years, struggled on Sunday to bridge differences ...Japan Kishida’s coalition to hang on to majority but his party weakened -exit polls
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling coalition was projected to maintain power in an election on Sunday, even as his party was ...Climate, COVID and corporate tax on the G-20 agenda in Rome
The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses gathered Saturday for the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 ...Pope Francis: COP26 must offer concrete hope to future generations
– Political leaders must give “concrete hope” to future generations that they are taking the radical steps neededto tackle climate change when ...U.N. warns world set for 2.7C rise on today’s emissions pledges
Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, ...ASEAN summit begins without Myanmar after top general barred
A Southeast Asian summit started on Tuesday without military-ruled Myanmar, after its junta refused to send a representative following its leader’s exclusion ...Greenhouse gas levels hit record; world struggles to curb damage
Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” in capping rising temperatures, the United Nations ...United States would come to Taiwan’s defense if China attacks: Biden
The United States would come to Taiwan’s defense and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own, U.S. ...South Korea prepares to launch first domestically produced space rocket
South Korea is scheduled to conduct its first test launch into space of a domestically built rocket on Thursday in a major ...Japanese volcano spews plumes of ash, people warned away
A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat ...














