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Azerbaijan defends fossil fuels at COP29

BAKU, Nov 12 (AFP): The host of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan on Tuesday defended fossil fuels and the right of countries to exploit them as dozens of world leaders arrived for the COP29 conference.More than 75 leaders are expected but the heads of top polluting nations are skipping...

Lankan president faces first parliament test

COLOMBO, Nov 12 (AFP): Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, who counts Karl Marx and Che Guevara among his heroes, has the...

UN says Gaza aid far from enough

GENEVA, Nov 12 (AFP): The UN on Tuesday warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza had dwindled further, with the situation in the besieged north especially "catastrophic". The warning from UNRWA, the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, came as Israel said it was opening an additional...

N Korea ratifies mutual defence treaty with Russia

PYONGYANG, Nov 12 (Reuters): North Korea has ratified a mutual defence treaty with Russia signed by the two countries' leaders in June, which calls for each side to come to the other's aid in case of an armed attack, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.The report came amid international criticism...

Jan 6 rioters expect Trump will keep pardon promise

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (BBC): Out of all of Donald Trump's supporters, Derrick Evans has a particular reason to be happy with November's election results - he hopes the president-elect will give him a pardon for participating in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol."A pardon will be life...

Protesters blame rampant graft for roof crash in Serbia

BELGRADE, Nov 12 (AP): Anti-government protesters in Serbia on Monday demanded arrests and the resignations of top officials over the deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a railway station that killed 14 people in a northern city this month. The rally in Belgrade blamed the collapse on rampant corruption...