American NGOs have complained that US negotiators at UN climate talks risk portraying the country as an obstacle to fighting global warming.
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/ 29 November 2011
International climate negotiators were at odds on how to raise billions of dollars for the new green climate fund, on the second day of COP17.
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/ 26 November 2011
As delegates gather in SA to plot against climate change, some governments are pushing to redefine distinctions between rich and poor nations.
Embracing a policy of "Do Tell," the Dutch military joined Amsterdam’s annual Gay Pride parade for the first time.
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/ 25 November 2009
Next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen, seeks to transform the way the planet is run, from the production of energy to the building of homes.
For die-hard followers, the commander who led a terror-driven Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka still lives, despite evidence to the contrary.
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/ 28 November 2007
A vast archive of German war records opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, giving historians and Holocaust survivors, who have waited more than 60 years, access to concentration-camp records detailing Nazi horrors. The 11 countries that oversee the archive have finished ratifying an accord unsealing about 50-million pages.
Bickering African countries threw an international trade conference into deadlock over whether to ease an 18-year ban on ivory sales, with opponents warning it will increase the poaching threat in countries where elephants have almost disappeared.
The former prosecutor who drew up the war-crimes indictment against Charles Taylor said on Tuesday that the former Liberian president’s trial was likely to shed light on the activities of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi and a network of war profiteers.
Sudan has dropped charges against two European medical aid workers accused of spreading false information in a report alleging widespread rape in the troubled province of Darfur, the organisation which issued the report said on Monday.