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Envoys from the U.S. and China, the world’s top polluters, meet at COP27 Summit

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has met with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks in Egypt.

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Envoys from the U.S. and China, the world’s top polluters, meet at COP27 Summit

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has met with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks in Egypt.

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Russian air strikes cause widespread blackouts in Ukraine, cross into NATO-member Poland

A Russian missile barrage on the Ukrainian power grid sent the war spilling over into neighboring countries, hitting NATO member Poland and cutting electricity to much of Moldova.

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Kevin McCarthy beats far-right challenger 188-31 to lead House GOP – CNN

Kevin McCarthy beats far-right challenger 188-31 to lead House GOP  CNN Conservatives Warn McCarthy May Not Have Votes To Be Speaker  MSNBC McCarthy wins GOP nomination for House speaker  Fox News Conservatives warn McCarthy: You don’t have the votes for speaker  Yahoo News Cuellar

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Ukraine Isn’t Just at COP27 to Talk About Climate

In one sense, Ukraine’s delegation to the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, has a complicated task: to convey to the world the interconnections of war and climate change, the scale of the environmental destruction that Russia’s invasion has

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Pentagon ‘looking into’ reports Russian missiles hit inside Poland

The Pentagon said on Tuesday it was unable to corroborate media reports that two Russian missiles had landed inside NATO member Poland, but that it was investigating the claims. “We are aware of the press reports alleging that two Russian

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Iran protests swell on anniversary of lethal 2019 crackdown

Iranians took to the streets Tuesday after organisers of protests over Mahsa Amini’s death called for demonstrations marking three years since a lethal crackdown on unrest sparked by a fuel price hike. The call to commemorate those slain in the

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Seven million homes in the dark as Russian missiles pound Ukraine cities

Missile strikes hit cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, plunging seven million homes into darkness just days after a humiliating Russian retreat, prompting a defiant response from President Volodymyr Zelensky. Seven million homes were without power following the latest attacks, the

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How Bladder Cancer Differs in Women and Younger Adults

Bladder cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed forms of cancer in the U.S. About 1 in 40 Americans born today will develop this cancer at some point in their lifetime, and a majority of these people will be

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Global population to hit 8 billion mark Tuesday, U.N. says

The upward trend threatens to leave even more people in developing countries further behind, as governments struggle to provide enough classrooms and jobs for a rapidly growing number of youth and food insecurity becomes an even more urgent problem.

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