Month: October 2021

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heads to a United Nations climate conference Monday energized by a new legislative framework that would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change. The $555 billion plan for climate spending is the centerpiece of a sweeping domestic

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Police in eastern Texas say a shooting at a Halloween party left one man dead and nine other people wounded. Texarkana police say in a news release that the shooting happened late Saturday at an event center. It is estimated that a couple hundred people were in attendance. The 10 people

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has formally opened, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global warming. Following Sunday’s opening gavel, officials began addressing a raft of procedural matters before leaders from

By KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prince Charles has urged leaders of the world’s biggest economies to put words into action. Charles addressed the Group of 20 summit in Rome on Sunday. The Group of 20 countries, which represent more than three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, are looking for common ground

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has recorded a new daily high number of coronavirus cases as much of the country’s businesses remain closed in an effort to counter a weekslong surge in infections. The national coronavirus task force on Sunday reported 40,993 new infections over the previous day, up more than

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Police in eastern Texas say a shooting at a Halloween party left one man dead and nine other people wounded. Texarkana police say in a news release that the shooting happened late Saturday at an event center. It is estimated that a couple hundred people were in attendance. The 10 people

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. COP is short for Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first summit

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as part of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday. The outreach is designed to ensure that the intensely competitive relationship between the world’s two largest economies doesn’t veer into open

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Ministry of Migration and Asylum says a small cargo ship carrying 382 people has been towed to the island of Kos and 375 of the passengers moved to a special migrant facility. One woman has been transferred to a health center in the nearby island of Karpathos and six people

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s national elections commission says candidates from the ruling party have won the mayoral races in the country’s five largest cities, but the opposition is claiming fraud. Near-complete results announced Sunday by the Central Elections Commission showed the Georgian Dream party winning the vote in the capital Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Rustavi, Poti

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow formally opens Sunday, a day before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland’s biggest city to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. The meeting will see negotiators from almost 200 countries try to

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations chief has urged Sudan’s generals to reverse their takeover of the country. Sunday’s appeal came a day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the largest pro-democracy protest since last week’s coup. Antonio Guterres says the generals should “take heed”