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Financial sector to help mobilize $200 billion to fight climate change in developing countries

New UN report says investment in climate change adaptation can help promote the ivelihoods of...

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US, Arab Partners Launch Air Strikes against Islamic State in Syria

The United States and a group of five Arab countries have carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.

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Chinese Uighur Scholar Gets Life in Prison for 'Separatism'

A Chinese court has convicted a prominent Uighur on separatism charges and sentenced him to life in prison, in a ruling slammed by rights groups as unusually harsh.

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130,000 Syrian Kurds Flee to Turkey as IS Nears Border

More than 130,000 refugees have flooded into Turkey from Syria in the past few days, as the jihadist group Islamic State bears down on the Syrian border town of Kobane. Turkish authorities clashed with hundreds of Kurdish protesters, many of whom...

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