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Australian police ended an extensive 18-day search for a missing 4-year-old girl. She was found by officers at a house in the small town of Carnarvon, Australia. A video, recorded by the agents, recorded the moment when a police officer picked up the child and asked: “What’s your name?” The girl then replied: “My name […]

A Chinese man was detained for nine days after sending a meme to a chat group that was deemed “offensive to the police”. The incident went viral on Chinese social media. The man, identified only by his surname Li, allegedly sent the meme on Chinese social media platform WeChat, in a group conversation complaining about […]

This Wednesday (3), the summit of the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), held in Glasgow, Scotland, discusses the global financial investment needed to fulfill the commitments to reduce pollutant emissions and to the development of sustainable strategies for economies. The schedule includes activities that will clarify how climate finance has been mobilized […]

The mood in Glasgow was optimistic on Tuesday (2), with world leaders wrapping up their high-level summit at the COP26 climate conference. Several important announcements illuminated the meeting’s prospect of achieving significant results. Here is a summary of what happened on this second day. The big promise against methane About 100 nations have signed a […]

On the second day of COP26, Brazil signed a global commitment to reduce methane gas emissions by 30% by 2030. For environmentalist Fábio Feldmann, the country’s adhesion demonstrates a change in posture compared to recent years “There was a change in Brazil’s position for obvious reasons: the country was isolated at the COP and in […]

Democrat Eric Adams was elected the 110th mayor of New York City, according to a projection by CNN, in defeating Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain who embraced a public safety message, will be the second black mayor in the city’s history, after the late David Dinkins. Born in […]

Bill Burns, director of the CIA, the US intelligence agency, is leading a delegation of senior US officials in Moscow to a series of two-day meetings with Russian officials, a US embassy spokesman said on Tuesday (two). “They are meeting with members of the Russian government to discuss a number of issues in the bilateral […]

Worldwide, fossil fuels such as coal and oil are still the main sources of energy production. From the chimneys comes carbon dioxide, the main cause of the greenhouse effect, responsible for climate change in recent decades. In Brazil, clean energy generation is the majority, since of all the energy produced in the country, 67% comes […]

Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, laughs with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter fades when she returns home, a small hut with earth walls. There, she remembers her fate: the girl is being sold to a stranger as a bride. The […]

Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar was unable to attend the COP26 climate conference on Monday (1) due to lack of wheelchair access. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, host of the event, personally apologized to Elharrar, who he said had accepted. “He [Johnson] was very kind and very friendly and apologized. Of course, I accepted and […]