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Explainer-What is the point of a UN climate COP?
BAKU - Tens of thousands of people from around the globe will gather next week for COP29, the annual U.N. climate summit, in Azerbaijan's...
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Explainer-COP29: What is a carbon credit? What is Article 6?
BAKU - Countries at the U.N. COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan will attempt to agree rules for a global system for trading carbon offset...
Nov 9, 20246 min read
Exclusive-Peru and China to sign strengthened free-trade agreement in Xi's APEC visit
LIMA - Peru and China will sign an updated free-trade agreement during President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the Andean nation that...
Nov 9, 20242 min read
Trump win worries international partners ahead of COP29 climate summit
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election has darkened the outlook for a strong deal at the COP29 climate...
Nov 8, 20243 min read
2024 will be world's hottest year on record, EU scientists say
BRUSSELS - This year is "virtually certain" to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began, the European Union's Copernicus...
Nov 8, 20242 min read
Spanish police seize record cocaine in Ecuadorean banana shipment
ALGECIRAS, Spain - Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure after finding 13 metric tons of the drug hidden in a shipment of...
Nov 8, 20241 min read
Bolivia president calls for end of blockades, says costs exceed $1.7 billion
LA PAZ - Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday called for the end of costly highway blockades that have paralyzed parts of the South...
Nov 1, 20242 min read
Argentina's triple-digit inflation slows, but cash-strapped workers struggle to pay bills
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's triple-digit inflation, among the world's highest, is starting to slow down but this offers little relief for...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Argentina lawmakers fail to overturn Milei veto of university funding
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's lower house of Congress failed on Wednesday to muster the votes needed to reverse President Javier Milei's...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
River level at Amazon rainforest port hits 122-year low amid drought
MANAUS, Brazil - The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought...
Oct 5, 20242 min read
Fishing waste chokes marine wildlife, threatens human health in Argentina's Patagonia
VALDES PENINSULA, Argentina - Mountains of plastic waste from the fishing industry have covered the coast along the Valdes Peninsula in...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
Solar eclipse shines a 'ring of fire' over Easter Island and Patagonia
HANGA ROA, Easter Island/LAS HORQUETAS, Argentina - The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon,...
Oct 3, 20241 min read
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