Biden pledges to cut US emissions by 2030 at climate summit
President Joe Biden has opened a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the United States pumps out,…
Derek Chauvin Found Guilty In Murder Of George Floyd
Derek Chauvin, the former officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until he could no longer breathe, was found guilty of murder by a…
NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation
More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year. In an open…
Biden’s virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch
There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be…
Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd’s death goes to the jury
The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday April 19th 2021 in a city on edge against another round…
World on the verge of climate crisis ‘abyss’, warns UN
Time is fast running out to tackle the climate crisis, a United Nations report has warned, with the COVID-19 pandemic having failed to put the brakes on “relentless” climate change….
‘Huge’ explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of…
St. Vincent: Thick ash covers Caribbean island after volcanic eruption
The eruption of La Soufriere, after decades of inactivity, threw massive dark clouds of ash into the air. Thousands of people had to be evacuated. A thick layer of ash…
WHO says surplus AstraZeneca vaccines in rich nations must go to poor countries
As advanced countries such as Britain, Australia and Greece have decided not to use some Covid-19 vaccines right now for the younger age groups over the blood clot controversy, the…
