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World leaders turn up the heat on fossil fuels

BELEM (Brazil), Nov 07 (AFP): World leaders were set to meet for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday after fiery speeches and renewed criticism of Big Oil marked the opening session.Dozens of ministers and several heads of state and government, including those of Spain,...

Several people fall ill after suspicious package with white powder opened

WASHINGTON, Nov 07 (Reuters): A suspicious package containing white powder delivered to a US military base in Maryland caused multiple people to fall ill and led to several being hospitalised, CNN reported on Thursday.A building on the base was evacuated after an individual "opened a suspicious package," CNN said, citing...

Hungary's Orban to meet Trump in face of Russia oil sanctions

BUDAPEST, Nov 07 (AFP): Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban was due to meet Donald Trump in Washington on Friday for the first time since his ally was re-elected US president, as he seeks a waiver on American sanctions on Russian oil.The United States hit Russia's two biggest oil producers...

UN lifts sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa

NEW YORK CITY, Nov 07 (Arab News): The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to lift sanctions on Ahmad Al-Sharaa, effectively removing the Syrian president from the Daesh and Al-Qaeda Sanctions List in a move widely seen as signaling international recognition of the post-Assad political order in Syria.Resolution 2729 was...

World Food Programme may have to pause food aid in Congo

GENEVA, Nov 07 (Arab News): The UN World Food Programme warned on Friday it may have to pause food aid to help millions of malnourished people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by February due to a major funding crisis."We're at historically low levels of funding. We've probably received about...

Piles of garbage and seeping sewage pollute devastated Gaza

KHAN YOUNIS, Nov 07 (Agencies): Stinking mounds of fly-covered garbage lie strewn throughout Gaza amid the rubble from Israel's devastating military campaign, spilling out along roadsides and between the tents where most of the shattered enclave's people live.Government services such as rubbish collection ceased as soon as the war began...

Mexican president moves to tackle sex abuse after shock groping

MEXICO CITY, Nov 07 (AFP): Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday launched a nationwide drive against sexual harassment and abuse, after shocking video of a man groping her brought the widespread issue into stark focus.The country's first woman leader presented a plan to ensure prison sentences for sexual abuse across...

Afghan-Pakistan peace talks push ahead after border clashes

SPIN BOLDAK (Afghanistan), Nov 07 (AFP): Afghan and Pakistani negotiators were locked in crunch peace talks in Istanbul on Friday after deadly border fighting threatened a fragile truce.The talks in Turkey were meant to cement a ceasefire agreed in Qatar last month, which ended a week of fierce clashes that...