- — Developing nations, climate groups oppose COP29 $250B-a-year offer from rich countries
- A draft finance deal Friday at the U.N. COP29 climate and environment talks proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion a year to poorer nations in climate funding. Developing countries want more money.
- — Hungary's Orban invites Israeli PM to visit, won't enforce ICC arrest warrant
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday invited Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his country and confirmed he will not honor an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.
- — Israel hits Lebanon with widespread bombing and shelling, killing at least 47
- Israel Friday continued widespread bombing attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon in a series of air strikes near Beirut and Tyre, killing at least 47 and wounding 22 in the Baalbek district northeast of Beirut.
- — Developing nations, climate groups oppose COP29 $250B a year offer from rich countries
- A draft finance deal Friday at the U.N. COP29 climate and environment talks proposes wealthy nations give $250 billion a year to poorer nations in climate funding. Developing countries want more money.
- — London Gatwick reopens after 'security incident' evacuates terminal
- Train service is resuming and people are returning to the South Terminal at London Gatwick Airport after a security alert forced the evacuation of part of the city's secondary international hub Friday.
- — Police destroy suspicious 'hoax device' outside U.S. London embassy
- A suspicious package found outside the U.S. Embassy in London Friday was destroyed in a controlled explosion as London police closed Ponton Road near the embassy.
- — Apple, Google face potential investigation over mobile browser dominance
- An independent inquiry group on Friday recommended to the British Competition and Markets Authority to investigate Apple and Google over their dominance of mobile web browsers and apps in the country.
- — Spain fines five budget airlines $186 million for 'abusive practices'
- Spain's government said Friday five low-cost airlines have been fined $186.32 million for what Minister of Social Rights Pablo Bustinduy said were abusive practices like charging more for hand luggage or reserving seats.
- — Japan passes economic package to address inflation
- In hopes of tackling continuing issues of inflation, the Japanese government okayed a wide-ranging economic package worth $250 billion to address racing energy costs and benefit a lot of low-income families.
- — Iran orders new advanced nuclear centrifuges to be brought on stream after IAEA censure
- Iran said Friday it had begun commissioning new advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuges after it was censured by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
- — Sixth death confirmed in suspected Laos mass methanol poisoning incident
- The death toll from a suspected adulterated alcohol mass poisoning in Laos rose to six Friday after an Australian teen backpacker died in a hospital in Thailand where she had been transferred for treatment.
- — Gunmen ambush vehicle convoy in Pakistan, killing dozens
- Gunmen ambushed a convoy of passenger vehicles traveling in remote northern Pakistan, killing dozens of people, authorities said.
- — Britain blacklists daughter of Angola's former president as it clamps down on corruption
- Britain on Thursday sanctioned Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former president, and two others London called "kleptocrats" as part of a new effort to clamp down on corruption and dirty money.
- — Putin says Russia launched experimental hypersonic missile against Ukraine
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia hit a Ukrainian aerospace plant with an experimental hypersonic missile in the first use of the nuclear-capable missile against Ukraine.
- — Delhi's 'alarming' air quality crisis persisting as city is named as India's dirtiest
- Delhi was listed as India's most polluted city Thursday as a weeks-long air quality crisis gripping northern India has shown few signs of letting up.
- — Wednesday night eruption is Iceland volcano’s 7th this year
- A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted for the seventh time since December in the southwest area of the island nation.
- — Bolsonaro among 37 indicted for plotting 2023 coup attempt in Brazil
- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday was among 37 people indicted for allegedly attempting to coordinate a coup d'etat last year.
- — ICC issues war crimes arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leader 'Deif'
- The International Criminal Court Thursday issued war crimes arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant. A warrant was also issued for a Hamas commander.
- — Australia introduces proposed law to ban social media for children younger than 16
- Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Thursday that his government has rollout a new social media ban on children under 16, leaving the responsibility of policing the law to tech companies.
- — Scores killed in Israeli airstrikes, military action across Gaza strip
- Scores of people were killed overnight in Israeli airstrikes on houses in northern Gaza where displaced people were sheltering, according to media reports and agencies run by Gaza's Hamas-led administration.
- — Putin gifts bears, yaks and a lion to North Korean zoo
- Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a North Korean zoo more than 70 animals including an African lion, two brown bears and two yaks, Russia's environment ministry reported, amid growing military ties.
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