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Lawyer on trial in Beijing as police scuffle with protesters

Lawyer on trial in Beijing as police scuffle with protesters

BEIJING (AP) – Police scuffled with protesters and journalists at a Beijing courthouse Monday as a prominent rights lawyer stood trial on charges of provoking trouble and stirring ethnic hatred with online commentary critical of the ruling Communist Party. Chinese protesters and foreign rights groups said Pu Zhiqiang’s trial at …

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French far right collapses in regional runoff elections

French far right collapses in regional runoff elections

PARIS (AP) – Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday, failing to take a single region after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The conservatives surged against the governing Socialists, changing the political map of France. The failure of the National Front to …

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Beijing: Glimpses of a courthouse scuffle

Beijing: Glimpses of a courthouse scuffle

BEIJING (AP) – Security agents forcibly kept dozens of people away from the Beijing court where rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang stood trial Monday, and authorities roughed up at least five protesters before taking them away in vehicles. At least one foreign journalist also reported being slammed to the ground. The …

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Winners and losers in the Paris climate pact

Winners and losers in the Paris climate pact

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – The climate deal adopted in suburban Paris was the culmination of four years of negotiations on how to get nearly all countries to jointly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet. The talks were difficult and sometimes teetered on the …

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Now comes the tough part: The world’s carbon diet starts

Now comes the tough part: The world’s carbon diet starts

PARIS (AP) – The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won’t be easy – or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil fuels and slow global warming, patting themselves on the back for showing …

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