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 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp today set a target to cut operational emissions to net zero by 2050, joining a list of energy companies taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest have a clear message for decision-makers ahead of two global environment conferences: respect our land and human rights to slow climate change and protect biodiversity.

SYDNEY/BOSTON, (Reuters) – As major companies look at drastic ways to cut carbon emissions from corporate travel, airlines are bracing for a major hit to business-class travel, a key revenue driver, industry executives and experts say.

LA PALMA, Spain, (Reuters) – Blocks of molten lava as large as three-storey buildings rolled down a hillside on the Spanish island of La Palma while a series of tremors shook the ground yesterday three weeks after the volcanic eruption.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “No Time to Die,” the latest installment in the James Bond franchise, debuted to $56 million at the domestic box office, a result that fell somewhat short of expectations and signals that even one of the most storied brands in film history is still being forced to contend with a moviegoing landscape that has been dramatically altered by the pandemic.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist who acknowledged being part of a nuclear proliferation ring, died on Sunday.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said today, in a strong riposte to Beijing.

LA PALMA, Spain, (Reuters) – Blocks of molten lava as large as three-storey buildings rolled down a hillside on the Spanish island of La Palma while a series of tremors shook the ground today three weeks after the volcanic eruption.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned yesterday to pull his coalition government back from the brink of collapse after the junior party demanded his head because he has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court late on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas’s restrictive abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and outsources enforcement of the ban to ordinary citizens.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia reported 968 coronavirus-related deaths yesterday, its highest single-day death toll since the start of the pandemic.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – India has made the use of biomass pellets mandatory in some coal-fired thermal power plants in a bid to cut air pollution by using agricultural waste that is otherwise burnt by farmers to generate electricity.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s executive board will meet again today with Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and the law firm that says she pressured World Bank staff to change data to benefit China while serving as the bank’s CEO, according to sources familiar with the plan.

SRBAC, (Reuters) – Seeking to please his wife who had wished for a more diversified view from their family house, a Bosnian self-taught innovator has built a rotating house allowing her to watch a rising sun in one moment and passers by in the next.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanon has no centrally generated electricity after fuel shortages forced its two largest power stations to shut down, a government official told Reuters today. 

OSLO/MOSCOW/MANILA,  (Reuters) – Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, who braved the wrath of the leaders of the Philippines and Russia to expose corruption and misrule, won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, in an endorsement of free speech under fire worldwide.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo should renegotiate its $6 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal with Chinese investors, according to the draft of a report commissioned by a global anti-corruption body of governments, companies and activists.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A group of 136 countries yesterday set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big companies and sought to make it harder for them to avoid taxation in a landmark deal that U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has repeatedly delayed inspections by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) necessary for the certification of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in the European Union, the EU’s ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying yesterday.