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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE GUMEDE Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Poorer nations attending the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have used the meeting to push leaders on climate action and high levels of debt, issues directly affecting the developing world. They have also sought to position themselves as economic partners with much

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press This year’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil had many unique aspects that could have been part of an historic outcome. COP30, as it’s called, was hosted in Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, a crucial regulator of climate and home to many Indigenous peoples who are

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman

By JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and WILLIAM JARRETT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The date was May 7, 2017. Addressing cheering supporters, the newly elected leader of France, Emmanuel Macron, made a promise that now, in his waning 18 months as president, lies in tatters. The rival that Macron defeated that day, Marine Le Pen,

By BEN FINLEY, OPE ADETAYO and SAM METZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians, signaling a broader strategy since he ordered preparations for possible military action and warned that the United States could go in “guns-a-blazing” to wipe out

By ASSANA SAMBU AND CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau began voting on Sunday as President Umaro Sissoco Embalo seeks a second term in the nation that has endured multiple coups. The presidential and parliamentary elections come at a critical time in West Africa, where democracy has recently been challenged by disputed

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the waterways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were supposed to give them a voice like never before at the annual conference. As the talks, called

By MELINA WALLING, ANTON L. DELGADO and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks ended Saturday with a compromise that some criticized as weak and others called progress. The deal finalized at the COP30 conference pledges more money to help countries adapt to