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China’s state-run Global Times newspaper mocked President Joe Biden on Tuesday for eliciting “ridicule” by apologizing for America at the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit this week.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) – More than 100 countries were set to pledge Tuesday to end deforestation, which scientists say is a major driver of climate change.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg posed for a Halloween photo of him holding the baby dressed like a traffic cone.

Elon Musk called out David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme on social media over reports that children in developing countries had been forced to have sex with UN officials in order to receive food. Musk says that he will donate $6 billion to fight world hunger if the UN explains exactly how that amount will solve the problem, adding a stipulation that the organization use “open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan ripped up a report by the U.N. Human Rights Council during an address at the U.N. General Assembly, slamming the global rights body for its “obsessive anti-Israel bias.”

A fallen tree derailed train services from London to Glasgow, the site of the United Nations COP26 climate change summit. 

As the U.N.’s COP26 summit gets underway on Sunday, a lone voice is pushing back on the existential threat of so-called climate change.

Jack Black is the latest Hollywood celebrity to attack fossil fuels, providing the voice of a talking velociraptor who chides the world about impending doom in the United Nations’ new global warming PSA.

Neal Crabtree, a welder who lost his job on the Keystone XL pipeline, said his crisis is not about the climate but about earning a living.

Women in Kabul, Afghanistan, organized yet another protest on Tuesday demanding the Taliban terrorist organization, which currently runs the country, allow them to return to work and re-open schools for girls.

BERLIN (AP) – The United Nations is summoning an unusual “witness” to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur.

The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug out from under Paris’ $66 billion submarine deal Down Under.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist and media darling, will be speaking and protesting at the United Nation’s COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, which begins next week.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says the United States ought to resettle more Afghans as billionaire George Soros aids President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation out of Afghanistan. 

UNITED NATIONS — Iran executed over 250 people, including at least four child offenders, in 2020 and so far this year has carried out 230 executions that included nine women and one child who was executed in secret, the U.N. independent investigator on human rights in Iran said Monday.

Media darling Greta Thunberg has agreed that she’s “just saying blah blah blah” on climate change in a BBC interview, arguing “that’s the role of an activist”.

Any failure by the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to deliver an agreement on future trans-national climate controls could plunge the world into chaos, sparking migration crises alongside food shortages, political disorder and war,  the U.N.’s top climate official warned Sunday.

As Joe Biden and 13 cabinet members head to the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, coal mines are making a comeback in the U.S.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced plans on Thursday for a “profound transformation” of its “culture” in the wake of the agency’s latest sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.), U.N. News reported.

An Indian diplomat’s microphone conspicuously cut out during a United Nations (U.N.) transport conference in Beijing last week just as the envoy began to criticize China’s infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.

Conservatives pushed back on Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm’s remarks about the U.S. slacking “moral authority” over China on climate.

The world must slash the output of gas, coal, and oil in the next ten years or global warming will reach dangerous levels, a U.N.-backed study released Wednesday demanded, before lamenting nobody appears to be heeding its continued advice on the matter as fossil fuel production is set to soar over next decade.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced over the weekend that General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the military junta in Myanmar, will not be invited to the association’s October 26-28 summit. The unprecedented snub of Gen. Hlaing was welcomed by the Burmese opposition, which asked ASEAN to go even further and invite a representative from the civilian shadow government.

The United Nations COP26 climate summit later this month will provide a platform for world leaders to lecture the public about how human carbon footprints are allegedly destroying the planet. They will speak after thousands of people boarded planes to join the event in Glasgow, Scotland.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents continued their brutal offensive Sunday, seizing more districts in the oil-rich southern province of Shabwa and the strategically vital, gas-rich northern province of Marib.

An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the U.S. giving aid to the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan, a Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found.

The United Nations on Monday recalled two female staffers from Ethiopia after a recording of them accusing U.N. officials of bias toward the Tigrayan rebels was posted online. One of the names they dropped was Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and a Tigrayan himself.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has published a special report in anticipation of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, insisting that the “burning of fossil fuels is killing us.”

“Within the lifetime of Prince George, much of Buckingham Palace could be underwater,” the Daily Mail reports Tuesday, citing a new climate change study.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion blocked a busy intersection Monday near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament, marking the start of a week of protests the group plans in The Hague before a UN climate conference that opens on Oct. 31.

The Biden administration said on Sunday its first face-to-face meeting with Taliban officials since the brutal extremists reconquered Afghanistan was “candid and professional.” Judging by their comments, the Taliban disregarded everything the Biden team said except its promise of humanitarian aid.

“I haven’t eaten meat and fish on two days a week and I don’t eat dairy products on one day a week,” Charles said. “If more did that, you would reduce a lot of the pressure.”

An official at the U.N. said he will press at the upcoming climate summit regulating the used car market to advance electric vehicles.

Human rights organization Safeguard Defenders said on Tuesday that China is holding thousands of prisoners in secret prisons, including political dissidents and human rights activists, and using physical and psychological torture to force them to sign confessions.

Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry declared seven United Nations (U.N.) officials “persona non grata” on Thursday and gave them 72 hours to leave the country for allegedly “meddling” in the nation’s “internal affairs.”

Streaming giant Netflix has teamed with the United Nation’s COP26 international climate conference to produce shows to push “sustainability” and other global warming dogmas.