Month: September 2022

BY DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday. Researchers from around the United States collaborated on a new model for calculating the social cost of carbon, a

MOSCOW (AP) — The board chairman of Russia’s largest private oil company Lukoil has died. Russian news agencies on Thursday cited sources saying that Ravil Maganov had fallen from a hospital window in what may have been a suicide. A Lukoil statement said Maganov “passed away after a severe illness” but did not give further

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top politician says that the government will seek equivalent of $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and occupation of his country. Main ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Thursday it is Poland’s “obligation” to do so. The leader

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five years, thanks to a surge in illegal deforestation. Satellite sensors detected more than 33,000 fires according to data from the country’s national space institute. The dry season months of August and

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Abortion rights advocates in San Marino say they’re pleased that lawmakers in the tiny republic have approved legislation legalizing abortion. Advocates were speaking Thursday after law’s passage by a wide margin a day earlier. The parliamentary vote is the culmination of referendum last year in which citizens

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of an aggressive border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say a man has been charged with attempted incitement to murder after allegedly paying thousands of dollars in attempts to engage a contract killer to slay the partner of a man he desired. But the accused later discovered he had been defrauded by a darknet website. Prosecutors in the German

By JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank. The official Palestinian news agency initially blamed both deaths on Israeli troops conducting arrest raids, but later reported that Palestinian gunmen were suspected in one of the deaths. The Israeli military says troops traded fire with Palestinian