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Negotiators hope to agree the world's first binding treaty on plastic pollution this year
Experts meet as final global plastic treaty talks near. With months until crunch talks on the world's first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are meeting in Bangkok to discuss financing options and problematic plastics.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab has said he will summon opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia
US, European, Latin American nations reject Maduro vote certification. The United States along with countries in Europe and Latin America on Friday rejected the certification by Venezuela's Supreme Court of strongman Nicolas Maduro's widely questioned presidential reelection.
Volcano erupts in Iceland, spewing hot lava
Iceland's volcanic eruption slows as lava flows from second fissure. Icelandic authorities said Friday that a second fissure had formed on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, but volcanic activity had decreased after lava started spewing forth for the sixth time in the region since December.
Consultations for Matignon: Radical left party representatives at Elysee Palace
Macron kicks off tense talks on new French government. French President Emmanuel Macron began a round of thorny consultations with political leaders on Friday, hoping to cobble together a viable ruling coalition after last month's inconclusive election.
OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman have also come out against the bill, saying national rules would make more sense
A bill aimed at regulating powerful artificial intelligence models is under consideration in California's legislature, despite outcry that it could kill the technology it seeks to control.
Considered the first Chinese-developed 'Triple A' title, the game is inspired by the classic 16th-century Chinese novel 'Journey to the West'
Chinese video game hit 'Black Myth' sells 10 mn copies in three days. Hit Chinese video game "Black Myth: Wukong"has become one of the country's most successful productions, selling 10 million copies worldwide since launching earlier this week.
Prigozhin died in an aeroplane crash two months after his mutiny
Russians mark year since Prigozhin's death with flowers, tributes. At a curbside tribute to Russian paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow, just a few hundred metres from the Kremlin, streams of his supporters came Friday to lay bouquets of flowers.
Colorado bans reporter from asking Deion Sanders questions
Colorado has banned Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler from asking questions of football coach Deion Sanders or other members of the football program, the school confirmed Friday. "After a series of sustained, personal attacks on the football program and specifically Coach Prime, the CU Athletic Department in conjunction with the...
Danny Jansen to play for Blue Jays, Red Sox in same game
Danny Jansen will make baseball history Monday when he appears in the same game for both teams. The unique scenario was set in stone July 27, when the Toronto Blue Jays traded Jansen to the Boston Red Sox -- about a month after a game between the two teams was suspended in the second inning because of severe weather at Fenway Park.
Pro-Palestinian protesters march in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention
Harris pitches muscular foreign policy, and nuance on Gaza. Kamala Harris is making her pitch to voters as a muscular defender of US interests while aiming for nuance on the painful issue of Gaza -- hoping to cover vulnerabilities and to paint Republican Donald Trump as the more risky candidate on national security.
Divers recover final body from yacht shipwreck in Italy
UK tycoon's daughter is seventh, final victim of Sicily yacht sinking. Divers searching a sunken superyacht off Sicily recovered the body of the teenage daughter of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch Friday, the seventh and final victim of a tragedy in which the businessman also perished.
The artist Bon Iver sported one of the viral Harris-Walz camo hats at a recent rally for the candidates
Viral Harris-Walz camo hat injects Midwest glam into US campaign. If campaign hat sales are any predictor of electoral results, the Harris-Walz ticket is in great shape, as their camouflage cap with orange lettering goes viral.
A woman stirs a pot of lentil soup as she prepares meals at a centre sheltering people displaced by the conflict in Sudan
Sudan talks close with progress on two safe aid routes. Talks on the devastating war in Sudan ended Friday without a ceasefire but with progress on securing aid access on two key routes into a country facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr dropped out of the White House race on Friday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr suspends fringe White House bid. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, scion of America's storied political clan, suspended his long shot presidential bid on Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, injecting a new dose of uncertainty into the White House race.
Venezuela's Supreme Court has certified Nicolas Maduro's widely questioned reelection victory
US and others reject Maduro vote certification as lacking 'credibility'. The United States along with countries in Europe and Latin America on Friday rejected the certification by Venezuela's Supreme Court of strongman Nicolas Maduro's widely questioned presidential reelection.
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