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Britain doubles down on climate target, rules out accounting loophole
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it was doubling down on its net zero emissions target after ruling out using an accounting lo...
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Paris climate accord is not enough to protect oceans, court says
HAMBURG (Reuters) - An international court said on Tuesday greenhouse gas emissions absorbed by the ocean were considered mar...
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Factbox-India's northwest braces for more heatwaves amid elections
By Chris Thomas NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As India's northwest braces for more heatwave days this summer, capital Delhi has order...
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China sanctions ex-US lawmaker and supporter of Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has banned former U.S. lawmaker Mike Gallagher from entering the country and taken other measures in...
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Oil shipments at risk from rising sea levels, think tank warns
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Rising sea levels could severely disrupt crude oil shipments and erode energy security...
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Grieving chimpanzee carries dead baby for months at Spanish zoo
VALENCIA (Reuters) - Visitors to the Bioparc zoo in the Spanish city of Valencia have been greeted over the past three months...
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International ocean tribunal to issue climate opinion in 'David and Goliath' precedent case
By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) - An international ocean court is expected to issue an advisory opinion on Tuesday on whet...
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Biden reaches out to Republican leaders for support of border bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Monday urged Republican leaders in the House and Senate to support a revived bi...
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Biden campaign raises $51 million in April, down from March
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's re-election campaign said on Monday it raised over $51 million in April, down from an ...
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Yale graduates stage pro-Palestinian walkout of commencement
By Michelle McLoughlin and Steve Gorman NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Scores of graduating students staged a walkout fro...
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Mexico's howler monkeys dropping dead as heat toll mounts
By Luis Manuel Lopez and Raul Cortes COMALCALCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Threatened howler monkeys have been dropping dead from tr...
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US regulator homes in on malpractice in voluntary carbon markets
By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating greenwashing as part ...
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US regulator to probe VinFast crash in California in which four died
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety investigators said Monday they will investigate a VinFast VF 8 crash in April in Plea...
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Automakers back key parts of new US EPA vehicle emissions rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trade group representing General Motors, Toyota Motor, Volkswagen and nearly all other major automak...
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US FDA tested retail milk samples for bird flu in 17 states
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it tested retail samples of milk and other dairy produc...
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Exclusive-Donald Trump foreign policy advisers met Israeli PM Netanyahu, source says
By Gram Slattery (Reuters) - Three former U.S. foreign policy officials in Donald Trump's administration met with Prime Minis...
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Ivan Boesky, convict in 1980s insider trading scandal, dies at 87, NYT reports
(Reuters) - Ivan Boesky, the financier who was a central figure of the 1980s insider trading scandals, has died at the age of...
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Blazes in Brazil's Amazon off to record start in 2024, as firefighting budget cut
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first fou...
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Close to 13,000 hogs perish in Brazil flood-hit state
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Hog farmers in Rio Grande do Sul lost an estimated 12,600 animals after floods submerged ent...
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Key Senate Democrat calls for new leadership at FDIC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown called for new leadership at the troubled Federal Depo...
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