Chinese leaders issue official history to elevate Xi

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NOV 11, 2021 @ 1800 GMT | In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party on Thursday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to extend his rule next year, praising his role in the country’s rise as an economic and strategic power and approving a political history that gives him status alongside the most important party figures. (Xinhua via AP)

BEIJING, China (AP) — Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party on Thursday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to extend his rule next year, praising his role in the country’s rise as an economic and strategic power and approving a political history that gives him status alongside the most important party figures.

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UN chief says global warming goal on ‘life support’

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NOV 11, 2021 @ 1230 GMT | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gestures during an interview at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Guterres says the Paris temperature goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees “is on life support” with climate talks so far not reaching any of the U.N.’s three goals, however “until the last moment hope should be maintained.” (AP Photo)

GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that a key temperature goal in climate talks is “on life support” but he still hopes that world governments will step up their pledges to slash emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Durr grapples with new post as Sweeney cites ‘red wave’

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NOV 11, 2021 @ 1500 GMT | State Senator elect Edward Durr walks out to speak members of the media at a news conference in Turnersville, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo)

NEW JERSEY, United States (AP) — The Republican state senator-elect who works as a furniture store truck driver and whose victory over New Jersey’s powerful Senate president made national headlines acknowledged Wednesday how formidable the new role will be for him and added he’s focused on thwarting Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

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‘Strong’ start to kids vaccine campaign, but challenges loom

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NOV 11, 2021 @ 1445 GMT | Leo Hahn, 11, gets the first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Last week, U.S. health officials gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a milestone that opened a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign to children as young as 5. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — The campaign to vaccinate elementary school age children in the U.S. is off to a strong start, health officials said Wednesday, but experts say there are signs that it will be difficult to sustain the initial momentum.

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Chinese forces exercise near Taiwan in response to US visit

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NOV 10, 2021 @ 2100 GMT | FILE – Visitors view the Chinese military’s J-16D electronic warfare airplane, left, and the KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft at right during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Zhuhai, China. China’s Defense Ministry announced Tuesday, Nov. 10. 2021, that its military forces are holding exercises near Taiwan in response to a visit by a U.S. Congressional delegation to the island. (AP File Photo)

BEIJING, China (AP) — Chinese military forces are holding exercises near Taiwan in response to a visit by a U.S. congressional delegation to the island.

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UAE FM visit signals Arab world willing to engage with Syria

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NOV 10, 2021 @ 1800 GMT | In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Al Nahyan’s visit to Syria is the first time since the Syrian conflict began a decade ago and comes as some Arab countries are improving relations with Syria. The UAE has been slowly mending ties with Damascus, as the tide of the war has turned in favor of President Bashar Assad. (SANA via AP)

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates met with Syria’s once widely shunned president in Damascus on Tuesday, sending the clearest signal yet that the Arab world is willing to re-engage with strongman Bashar Assad.

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Russia comes in from cold on climate, launches forest plan

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NOV 10, 2021 @ 1645 GMT | Natalia Lukina, the director of the Centre of Ecology and Productivity of Forests, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. The heavily forested Sakhalin Island, north of Japan, has become a testing ground for Russia’s efforts to reconcile its prized fossil fuel industry with the need to do something about climate change. One problem is that nobody knows how many trees are in Russia’s forests, and Lukina said Russia’s network of emissions monitoring stations is likewise limited. (AP Photo)

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — A Russian island north of Japan has become a testing ground for Moscow’s efforts to reconcile its prized fossil fuel industry with the need to do something about climate change.

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Vietnamese oil tanker seized by Iran now free in open waters

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NOV 10, 2021 @ 1430 GMT | FILE – This frame grab from a video released by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, shows the seized Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Satellite tracking data and other signals on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 suggested the Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran had been freed by the Islamic Republic. (Revolutionary Guard via AP, File)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran was free in open water Wednesday, ending the latest maritime confrontation involving Tehran amid stalled negotiations over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

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Ukraine hits another record for daily coronavirus deaths

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NOV 9, 2021 @ 1630 GMT | Workers stand by oxygen tanks for an ICU as medical staff carry a body of a patient who died of coronavirus on a stretcher, at the morgue of a hospital in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Ukraine’s health ministry has reported a one-day record of 793 deaths from COVID-19. Ukraine has been inundated by coronavirus infections in recent weeks, putting the country’s underfunded medical system under severe strain. (AP Photo)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Tuesday hit another record for daily coronavirus deaths amid a spike in infections fueled by public reluctance to get a vaccine.

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China’s 1st woman to spacewalk works 6 hours outside station

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NOV 8, 2021 @ 1800 GMT | In this image released by the Xinhua News Agency, a photo taken on a screen shows Chinese astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping conducting extravehicular activities outside the space station’s Tianhe core module, from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station. Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s Tianhe core module on Sunday evening Beijing time, spending more than six hours installing equipment and carrying out tests alongside the station’s robotic service arm. (Xinhua via AP)

BEIJING, China (AP) — Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station.

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