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A methane flare seen in Texas. Methane is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas that is currently released in huge quantities by oil and gas operations, landfills and agriculture.

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  • Climate

Climate talks are wrapping up. The thorniest questions are still unresolved.

Despite new agreements to limit methane emissions and beef up weather forecasts, vulnerable countries aren't getting any more help and the Earth is headed for catastrophic warming.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott and
  • Rebecca Hersher
Asl Tia, a cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain, sails on Bosporus to Marmara sea, in Istanbul, on Nov. 2.

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  • Europe

Russia and Ukraine renew a grain export deal to help the hungry and keep prices down

The U.N.-brokered deal to ship Ukrainian grain exports was set to expire on Saturday and will now continue for at least another 120 days.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
Zania Muhammed comforts her malnourished son, Mazzam Brahim, in the emergency section for critical care patients at a hospital in N'djamena, Chad. The war in Ukraine has caused food prices to skyrocket, leaving many without enough to eat.

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  • Global Health

Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine

In Chad, one of the continent's poorest countries, rising food and fuel prices — and drought — have left many hungry and unable to afford the limited food that is for sale.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Prison security officials prepare for the release of inmates outside Insein prison in Yangon on November 17, 2022.

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  • Asia

Myanmar reportedly will release 4 foreigners as part of a broad prisoner amnesty

Myanmar's expected release of more than 5,700 prisoners is expected to include the U.K.'s former envoy to the Asian country, an Australian economist and a Japanese filmmaker, according to state media.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Sullivan
Climate activists at the United Nations climate conference in Egypt call for money to pay for loss and damage from global warming in low-income countries.

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  • Climate

Low-income countries want more money for climate damage. They're unlikely to get it.

Wealthy nations may instead reshuffle money earmarked for other goals like limiting and adapting to global warming. That could hamstring efforts to deal with climate change in low-income countries

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley
The Justice Department announced a court in Ohio has sentenced a convicted Chinese spy to 20 years in prison. He attempted to steal trade secrets from an American company.

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  • National Security

Court sentences Chinese spy to 20 years for trying to steal U.S. trade secrets

Yanjun Xu was convicted last November of economic espionage by a federal jury in Ohio.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Sadio Konte Dior, 20, on the farm where he works outside of Dakar on October 4. He came to Senegal from Mali. On these small farms just outside of the capital, men and women who have migrated regionally grow lettuce and other vegetables.

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  • Environment

What a lettuce farm in Senegal reveals about climate-driven migration in Africa

People from all over West Africa come to Rufisque in western Senegal to labor in the lettuce fields – planting seeds and harvesting vegetables.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 3 more
Members of the Polish police inspect the fields near the village of Przewodow, Poland, where an explosion killed two people Tuesday.

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  • Europe

Poland says missile strike on its land appears to be an accident by Ukraine

Two Polish citizens were killed when the missile struck in the eastern part of Poland, just a few miles from the border with Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda calls it an "unfortunate accident."

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Babacar Niang, known as Matador, raps at a recording studio at one of Africulturban's facilities in Pikine, Senegal on April 26, 2018.

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  • Arts & Life

How Senegal's artists are changing the system with a mic and spray paint

A cultural center in Senegal is creating a safe space where artists can use their platform to speak about climate change while also finding opportunities in the art and music scene.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 3 more
A group of Ukrainian soldiers from the Territorial Defense load a rocket under the cover of trees in Kherson Region in October. The approaching winter may force a change in tactics, Ukrainian military units and Western military analysts say.

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  • World

With winter approaching, Ukraine prepares to fight on frozen ground

The coming winter may provide Ukraine with more opportunities to retake land from Russia, Western military analysts say. It will also bring a change in battlefield tactics.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott,
  • Claire Harbage,
  • and 1 more
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 13.

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  • World

Turkey is friendly with both Russia and Ukraine. Now it wants them to talk peace

Turkey, a NATO ally, has positioned itself as a neutral player in the Ukraine war — as being pro-Ukrainian without being anti-Russian.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
Residents look out from barriers around the recently locked down Haizhu district in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province Friday, Nov. 11, 2022.

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  • Asia

In southern China, residents revolt against COVID-19 controls

Unverified videos show people breaking down barriers and marching through streets in Guangzhou as frustration boils over about China's strict COVID-19 controls.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

Biden backs investigation into origins of missile that struck Poland

Russia fired a barrage of missiles at Ukraine Tuesday, killing at least one person. Hours later, Poland said there was an explosion on its territory near its border with Ukraine.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng
The Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics unveiled their mascots, two cartoonish Phrygian caps.

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  • Europe

The Paris 2024 Olympic mascots are ... hats. Here's why

Organizers call it a tip of the chapeau to the spirit of the French revolution. Critics see something different.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell

Tagged as: 

  • Economy

These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days

Could a shorter work week be the answer to the UK's productivity problem?

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch
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