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Year on from pledge, world clings to fossil fuels

PARIS, Nov 01 (AFP): One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that promise into action, say climate diplomats, campaigners and policy experts.Countries are being urged not to lose sight of that historic agreement ahead of...

Russia sentences ex-US consulate worker five years in prison

MOSCOW, Nov 01 (AP): A court in Russia's far-eastern city of Vladivostok on Friday convicted a former US Consulate worker charged with cooperating with a foreign state and sentenced him to four years and 10 months in prison.Robert Shonov, a Russian citizen and former employee of the US Consulate in...

Israeli strikes kill 60 Palestinians in Gaza

GAZA, Nov 01 (Reuters/AFP): Sixty Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, in overnight Israeli bombardment of the the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday.The attacks occurred in the city of Deir Al-Balah, the Nuseirat camp and the town of...

Record test was new Hwasong-19 int'l ballistic missile

SEOUL, Nov 01 (Reuters): North Korea flexed its military muscle with the test of a huge new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile dubbed Hwasong-19, state media said on Friday, amid international uproar over its troops deployed to aid Russia in Ukraine.The launch on Thursday flew higher than any previous North Korean...

Hidden sugars in Asia's baby food spark concerns

MANILA, Nov 01 (BBC): Jennylyn M Barrios' job as a make-up artist takes her all over Manila - precious time away from Uno, her 10-month-old son.There simply isn't enough time in the day to make the homemade meals her growing baby needs. But in rapidly developing Philippines, there are increasingly...

Harris, Trump converge on Milwaukee as US election looms

MILWAUKEE, Nov 01 (AFP): Donald Trump and Kamala Harris hold dueling campaign rallies Friday in Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee, as both candidates make frantic last-ditch appeals to wavering voters with Election Day just around the corner.Republican Trump will return to the venue where he was crowned his party's presidential nominee...

News in Brief -2024-11-02

Schoolgirls, policeman among five killed in roadside blast in PakistanQUETTA, Nov 01: At least five people, including three schoolgirls and a policeman, were killed in a roadside blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday morning, police said, in the latest incident of violence to hit the restive region. The...