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'Not a minute to lose': Clock ticks on fossil fuel deal at climate summit
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» DUBAI: The UN climate chief on Monday urged an end to obstruction a day before the deadline for a deal at a summit in Dubai, with oil producers resisting historic calls for the world to wind down fossil fuels.
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Philippines summons Chinese envoy over sea confrontations
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» MANILA - The Philippines said it had summoned China's envoy on Monday and flagged the possibility of expelling him following the most tense confrontations between the countries' vessels in years at flashpoint reefs in the disputed South China Sea.
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Stocks diverge at start of key week for rate calls
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» LONDON - Stock markets diverged on Monday ahead of a busy week for interest rate decisions from major central banks.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the hope of creating a better world after the horrors of World War II.
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Iran's jailed Narges Mohammadi to receive Nobel Peace Prize in absentia
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» OSLO - The Nobel Peace Prize will be handed out in Oslo on Sunday but with the notable absence of winner Narges Mohammadi, currently in prison, who will be represented by her children.
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UN climate talks chief pushes for rapid draft deal
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» DUBAI - The head of the UN climate summit pressed nations Friday to strike a deal as talks resumed after a break, with only four days left for negotiators to iron out differences over the fate of fossil fuels.
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Putin says he will seek re-election in 2024
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he would run for re-election in 2024, Russian news agencies reported, allowing the Kremlin leader to extend his decades-long grip on power into the 2030s.
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Australia, Papua New Guinea announce security deal
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» SYDNEY - Australia clinched a security deal with Papua New Guinea on Thursday, bolstering ties to a key Pacific neighbour that has been courted persistently by China.
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EU tells China 'differences' must be addressed
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» BEIJING - EU President Ursula von der Leyen told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday that the bloc and its biggest trading partner must address their differences, as they began the first in-person EU-China summit in over four years.
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‘A place of fear’: Hong Kong activist recalls years of repression
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» OTTAWA - Agnes Chow was trapped in Hong Kong, had her passport seized and was branded a "foreign agent" after years as one of the city's most prominent democracy activists.
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