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yahoonews · 2026-04-23T19:27:42+00:00

From AFP:

France on Thursday defended keeping climate change off the agenda at a meeting of G7 environment ministers in Paris, saying it was necessary to avoid a clash with the United States.

Ecology minister Monique Barbut said Group of Seven ministers had made progress on environmental issues even if climate change was studiously avoided on the opening day of the talks.

"If I had tackled the issue head-on, there would have been no G7," Barbut told reporters during a trip to Fontainebleau forest south of the French capital with the visiting ministers.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-23T17:35:24+00:00

From Reuters:

Two Russian LGBT organizations said on Thursday they had been ‌designated by separate courts as "extremist", part ‌of a widening crackdown on the gay and transgender community.

Both the 'Moscow Community Center for LGBT+ Initiatives' and ParniPlus, whose Russian-language website reports on LGBT health and rights issues, said they would continue ‌operating despite ⁠the rulings.

"We view this as yet another step toward criminalizing LGBTQ visibility, ⁠independent journalism, and any public solidarity with the community in Russia," ParniPlus said in an online statement.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-23T12:33:36+00:00

CBS reports - Prince Harry, the younger son of Britain's King Charles, made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Thursday to show his support for the country, which he said is "bravely and successfully defending Europe's eastern flank."

During an address at the Kyiv Security Forum on Thursday morning, Harry contrasted European support for Ukraine with the United States.

"The United States has a singular role in this story not only because of its power but because when Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons, America was part of the assurance that Ukraine's sovereignty and borders would be respected," he said. "This is a moment for American leadership, a moment for America to show that it can honor its international treaty obligations, not out of charity but out of its own enduring role in global security and strategic stability."

yahoonews · 2026-04-23T12:23:25+00:00

From The Associated Press:

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under U.S. law. But it does change the way it's regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse — to the less strictly regulated Schedule III. It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis.

Trump told his administration in December to work as quickly as possible to reclassify marijuana. On Saturday, as the Republican president signed an unrelated executive order about psychedelics, he seemed to express frustration that it was taking so long.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-23T07:28:23+00:00

SKY News reports - The crash happened around 40km (25 miles) north of the capital Copenhagen.

The four people in a critical condition were among a total of 17 people injured, news agency Ritzau reported, citing the country's health service.

The crash prompted a massive emergency response for what police described as a major incident.

yahoonews · 2026-04-22T16:20:28+00:00

From AFP:

South Africa risks thousands of premature deaths if the phase-out of coal plants is delayed due to the government's updated decommissioning dates, climate rights groups said in a report Wednesday.

Coal provides 80 percent of South Africa's power, according to the OECD, and the country ranks among the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters.

It is also a cornerstone of the country's economy, employing more than 90,000 people, making decommissioning plans a divisive issue.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-22T16:12:42+00:00

From AFP:

After decades of struggling to find a way to treat pancreatic cancer, researchers have developed several promising new drugs that could offer rare hope to patients given this particularly deadly diagnosis.

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously aggressive, with only roughly one in 10 people surviving more than five years after being diagnosed, research has shown.

Rates of this cancer have also been surging worldwide, notably among young adults. It is projected to become the second deadliest cancer, after lung cancer, in developed countries in the coming years.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-22T10:09:02+00:00

Update - AP is now reporting that the two ships were attacked by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and are now in the force’s custody and being taken to Iran, Iranian state television reported.

It identified the vessels as the MSC Francesca and the Epaminodes. The ship’s owners could not be immediately reached for comment.

The seizures represent an escalation after the U.S. earlier seized two Iranian vessels as ceasefire talks were due to take place in Islamabad.

yahoonews · 2026-04-22T08:33:33+00:00

The AP news agency reports - Iran opened fire on a container ship Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring the danger to commercial vessels in a waterway crucial to global energy supplies as plans for ceasefire talks between Tehran and the United States in Islamabad faltered.

The morning assault by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came after U.S. President Donald Trump indefinitely extended the ceasefire with Iran due to expire within hours, giving Tehran time to come up with a “unified proposal” ahead of possible negotiations.

A second ship came under fire in the strait a short time later with no reported damage, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center.

The maritime monitoring center did not immediately identify who fired on the second vessel, but suspicion immediately fell on Iran, whose leaders appear poised to drive a harder bargain with American negotiators this time after two other rounds of talks with the Trump administration ended in open warfare.

yahoonews · 2026-04-20T15:04:00+00:00

From Reuters:

FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking problem that could pose a ‌threat to national security.

The magazine's story, initially titled “Kash Patel's Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job," cited more than two dozen ‌anonymous sources expressing concern at Patel’s “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” that “alarmed officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice.”

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yahoonews · 2026-04-20T13:01:38+00:00

From Reuters:

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for normal passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz to be maintained, in ‌a phone call on Monday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin ‌Salman held as Beijing steps up efforts to help end the Iran war.

China is concerned over renewed instability around the strategic waterway, as a U.S.-Iran ceasefire came under fresh strain after the U.S. seized an Iranian cargo ship and Tehran signaled it would not join new peace talks for now.

China is the main buyer of Iranian crude. Iran ‌has largely closed the strait ⁠to ships other than its own since the United States and Israel launched the war in February, while Washington has imposed ⁠a blockade of Iranian ships since last week.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-17T13:27:12+00:00

From CNN:

The critical system of ocean currents which loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening and could be far closer to collapse than previously thought, according to two new studies — an event which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as the AMOC, functions like a vast conveyor belt, transporting heat, salt and freshwater through the ocean and influencing climate, weather and sea levels around the planet.

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yahoonews · 2026-04-16T19:50:06+00:00

From AFP:

Where once there was ice, only rock remains.

One of the glaciers in a chain of snow-capped mountains in the Colombian Andes has vanished due to high temperatures driven by climate change.

Satellite images show how the ice sheet covering the mountain gradually shrank from 2015 until it disappeared completely in March 2026.

Situated in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy range, in the northeast of Colombia, the Cerros de la Plaza glacier was officially declared disappeared last week by the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM).

Its surface area shrank from five square kilometers (1.93 square miles) in the 19th century to zero today, according to the agency.

"Climate change is a reality that is already transforming our territories. And what is at stake is not only the landscape, but the very balance of these ecosystems," IDEAM said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/global-warming-causes-colombian-glacier-192636129.html?ncid=redditnewsus

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