Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries' carbon pollution, but an overall larger agreement was still up in the air because of a fight over emission reduction efforts.
U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warns how Russia's invasion of Ukraine, if unchallenged, could normalize threats of nuclear blackmail and says the war offers a preview of a world where nuclear-armed countries could threaten other nations.
Residents of western New York state were digging out Saturday morning from a dangerous lake-effect snowstorm that had dropped more than 1.8 metres of snow in some areas and caused several deaths.
Although former president Trump’s Stop the Steal campaign failed this month to undermine the U.S. electoral system from the outside, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has also set his sights on dismantling his country’s independent elections authority. He may succeed.
North Korea has unveiled the little-known daughter of its leader Kim Jong-un at a missile launch site, attracting keen attention on a fourth-generation member of the dynastic family that has ruled North Korea for more than seven decades.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino lectured Europeans on Saturday for criticizing Qatar's human rights record and defended the host country's last-minute decision to ban beer from World Cup stadiums.
United Nations climate talks ran into extra time on Saturday with little sign of a breakthrough, as negotiations remain hung up on key issues including funds for the loss and damage suffered by poorer vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather.
