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Negotiators face a Nov. 24 deadline for an accord to trade significant constraints on Iran’s nuclear activities in return for a lifting of onerous economic sanctions. Read entire story.
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On the eve of World Food Day on Thursday, U.N agencies and non-governmental organizations are scrambling to scale up efforts to avert widespread hunger. “The world is mobilizing and we need to reach the smallest villages in the most remote locations,” Denise Brown, the U.N. World …
Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday, is the latest Biden administration emissary seeking to stabilize ties between the world’s two largest economies. The fourth senior U.S. official to travel to China in less than three months, Ms. Raimondo is taking her trip at a critical juncture. Relations between the […]
The Biden administration on Tuesday laid out for the first time a set of broad government guidelines around the use of carbon offsets in an attempt to shore up confidence in a method for tackling global warming that has faced growing criticism. Companies and individuals spent $1.7 billion last year voluntarily buying carbon offsets, which […]