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Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivers an address at University of Technology Sydney, in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

China warns Australia to act prudently in naval operations in the South China Sea

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

India's use of coal and oil illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Economic progress and fossil fuels: The elephant in the room at U.N. climate conference

By Vijay Jayaraj

People watch rescue and relief operations at the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in mountainous Uttarakhand state, India, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Officials in India say rescuers are 5 meters (about 16.4 feet) away from the 41 construction workers who have been trapped for over two weeks, raising hopes they may be freed soon. The tunnel the workers were building is part of the Chardham all-weather road, a flagship federal project connecting various Hindu pilgrimage sites. (AP Photo/File)

Indian rescuers reach 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel for 17 days, start pulling them out

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Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City. N.J. on Nov. 3, 2023. On Monday, Nov. 20, offshore wind company Attentive Energy said it will invest $10.6 million in supply chain and ocean technology innovation projects in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Biden’s hard sell of wind energy hits ‘economic wall’

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

This 2016 image provided by Mark Mansfield shows his son Canyon Mansfield and dog Kasey playing in the grass in Pocatello, Idaho. The boy was seriously injured in 2017 and his dog was killed when a cyanide device that is used to kill coyotes and other predators emitted a cloud of poison while they were hiking near their home. The Bureau of Land Management made public its decision to end the use of the devices on public lands Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (Mark Mansfield via AP)

U.S. Bureau of Land Management ends use of ‘cyanide bomb’ to kill coyotes and other predators

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech about Germany's budget crisis at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. With its economy already struggling, Germany now is wrestling to find a way out of a budget crisis after a court struck down billions in funding for clean energy projects and help for people facing high energy bills because of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The worst-performing major economy also faces a budget crisis. Germany’s leader vows fixes, but how?

By David McHugh - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, people wait to be served in a Department of Motor Vehicles office in New York. New York drivers who renewed their expired licenses during the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic and never submitted vision tests will get their licenses suspended on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New York drivers could face license suspensions over vision tests

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Cars pass by a billboard advertising COP28 at Sheikh Zayed highway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Representatives will gather at Expo City in Dubai, UAE, Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 for the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP28. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Hostile environment: Biden skipping U.N. climate talks for first time as president, irking activists

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

President Biden plans to skip U.N. climate talks beginning this week in Dubai

By Colleen Long - Associated Press

A South Korean army soldier, center bottom, shakes hands with a North Korean army soldier before crossing the Military Demarcation Line inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to inspect the dismantled North Korean guard post in the central section of the inter-Korean border in Cheorwon, on Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File)

North Korea restores border guard posts as tensions rise over its satellite launch, Seoul says

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - Cracks in the mud are visible in a dry wetland in Doñana natural park, southwest Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. National and regional authorities in Spain have signed an agreement to invest 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in areas around the treasured southern national park of Doñana in a bid to try to halt the wetland from drying up. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Spain announces a 1.4 billion-euro deal to help protect the prized Donana wetland from drying up

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

In this photo released by Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev telegram channel, rescuers evacuee people after storm and flooding in Sevastopol, Crimea, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. A storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and damaged buildings in Crimea, Russian state news agency Tass said. (Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev's telegram channel via AP)

More than half a million people left without power in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine after huge storm

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Paramedics transfer a survivor of a shipwreck at a hospital, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. A cargo ship sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early Sunday, leaving 13 crew members missing and one rescued, authorities said. The Raptor, registered in the Comoros, was on its way to Istanbul from Alexandria, Egypt, carrying 6,000 tons of salt, the coast guard said. It had a crew of 14, including eight Egyptians, four Indians and two Syrians, the coast guard said.(AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

13 crew members missing after a cargo ship sinks off a Greek island in stormy seas

By Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

Pope Francis appears on a giant monitor set up in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, as he blesses the faithful gathered in the square for the traditional Angelus noon prayer. On Saturday, the Vatican said the pope, whose 87th birthday is next month, was taken to a Rome hospital to have a CT scan to rule out pulmonary complications following a light flu, and that the exam was negative. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis says he has a lung inflammation but will go to Dubai this week for climate conference

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A man carriers a child walk out from a crowded holding room of a children's hospital in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2023. A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country's health ministry said Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens

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Firetrucks head to an emergency. (Image by blurAZ / shutterstock.com) ** FILE **

5, including 2 children, killed in Ohio mobile home fire on Thanksgiving, authorities say

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Betsy Quiroa, left, shops at a market-style food pantry at the Carver Center in Port Chester, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns that it is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems. Some states including New York are requiring supermarkets and other businesses to redirect food to food pantries. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Food headed to landfills get a new life, helps tackle climate change and alleviate hunger

By David R. Martin and Michael Casey - Associated Press

Pope Francis smiles as he waves faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis cancels Saturday morning audiences due to mild flu, Vatican says

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before President Joe Biden at a welcome reception for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative leaders at the Exploratorium, in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Kamala Harris scorched for posting Thanksgiving photo next to gas stove

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Workers are seen in Ninh Binh Power Plant, which is a coal-fired power plant to supply electricity, in Ninh Binh Province in Vietnam, on Sept. 19, 2007. A plan for how Vietnam will spend $15.5 billion to transition to cleaner energy has been finalized and will be announced at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai next week. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

Vietnam’s plan for spending $15.5 billion for its clean energy transition to be announced at COP28

By Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press