Ship industry proposes $5 billion research fund to help cut emissions
Shipping associations have proposed creating a research fund with $5 billion raised by the industry to develop technology to help the sector meet U.N. targets on cutting emissions.
In rural China, elderly transgender Sister Liu longs for family life
Morning market shoppers look a little too long in Liu Peilin’s direction as she passes by in a red jacket and gray wig covered in red and pink clips, her cheeks rouged in bright pink and eyeshadow in a matching shade.
French unions refuse Christmas truce in pensions protests
French trade unions failed on Tuesday to achieve the big surge in support they had hoped for in street protests to pressure President Emmanuel Macron to ditch his pension reform, and said there would be no strike truce during Christmas.
U.N. Security Council set for showdown over Syria cross-border aid deliveries
For the past six years the United Nations and other aid groups have been crossing into Syria from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan at four places authorized by the U.N. Security Council to deliver humanitarian assistance to millions of people.
U.S. envoy for North Korea to visit China this week: State Department
The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will visit Beijing on Thursday and Friday, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, after China and Russia proposed lifting some U.N. sanctions on North Korea.
China says lifting some U.N. sanctions on North Korea could help break deadlock
China and Russia are pushing the U.N. Security Council to lift some sanctions on North Korea to ease the country’s humanitarian concerns and to “break the deadlock” in stalled denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang, China’s U.N. ambass…
China postpones U.N. Security Council discussion on Kashmir: diplomats
China has postponed a discussion by the U.N. Security Council planned for Tuesday about the situation in the disputed Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir because the U.N. peacekeeping mission there was not ready to provide a brief, diplomats said.
Chinese ‘rumors’ and ‘cyber armies’ – Taiwan fights election ‘fake news’
Taiwan is ramping up efforts ahead of a Jan. 11 election to combat fake news and disinformation that the government says China is bombarding the island with to undermine its democracy.
U.S. Congress pressures Trump to renew Russia arms control pact
U.S. lawmakers of both parties are pressuring the White House to extend the last remaining restraints on U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons deployments by demanding intelligence assessments on the costs of allowing the New START treaty to lapse.
In Australia’s outback town of Oodnadatta, it is just another very hot day
An outback town near Australia’s red-hot center barely paused on Wednesday for a heat wave that is gripping the country, fueling fires and prompting widespread health warnings as heat records get set to tumble.
