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COP17 reaches a deal on nature after overtime, but funding falls short

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Delegates from nearly 200 countries agreed the key parts of a new action plan early Saturday, hours after the talks were due to end. In it, countries acknowledged they are falling behind on the 2022 targets.

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Police deployed during stand-off over control of Poland's top court

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All persons participating in these actions are committing the crime of a coup d'etat.

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Swiss supreme court upholds Liberian ex-rebel commander's 20-year sentence

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Alieu Kosiah, a former Liberian rebel commander, keeps the maximum 20-year sentence for war crimes committed between 1993 and 1995, during Liberia's first civil war.

Texas grand jury indicts ICE officer accused of hitting a man in Houston

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A grand jury indicted US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Mario Alberto Morales on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon over an Oct 10 incident, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare announced Friday.

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Report finds a paid campaign pushed anti-Muslim and anti-Qatar ads in 30 countries

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Two academics say the three-year investigation found an operation that likely cost more than 11 million dollars and ran ads on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook. They call it "perhaps one of the biggest digital influence and disinformation operations ever documented".

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Police Scotland investigates ex-Prince Andrew's time at Balmoral with Epstein

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Police Scotland confirms an investigation into the ex-prince's time at the King's private Balmoral estate with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. It began after police received "information" and is at a "very preliminary stage".

Iran says three tankers struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil struck a naval mine, caught fire and was abandoned. The claim could not be independently verified.

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UN warns of ethnic cleansing fears as Israel squeezes space in Gaza

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The UN human rights office says Palestinians are being displaced again and again into a shrinking part of Gaza. It says Israeli forces appear to treat the “Yellow Line” as a kill zone.