California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores
California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores
FILE – A plastic bag sits along a roadside in Sacramento, California, Oct. 25, 2013.
California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores
FILE – A plastic bag sits along a roadside in Sacramento, California, Oct. 25, 2013.
As UN meets, Haitians express hopelessness at finding international solution to gang crisis
Kenya’s President William Ruto, center-left, visits Kenyan police, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force deployed in Haiti to help curb gang violence in the country, at their base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2024.
In Switzerland, voters reject plan to better protect country’s biodiversity
A sign for the No! campaign is seen in a field ahead of a national biodiversity referendum, in Hoechstetten, Switzerland, Aug. 23, 2024.
PM Rama says Albania to grant sovereignty to Bektashi Muslims in Tirana
FILE – Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks at a press conference at the port of Shengjin, some 60 km northwest of Tirana, Albania, June 5, 2024.
Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer
Matt Capelouto, whose daughter, Alexandra, died from a fentanyl overdose, holds an awareness card advocating for legal action against those responsible for drug-related deaths in Temecula, California, Sept. 17, 2024.
Teamsters union declines to endorse Trump or Harris
FILE – Teamsters union members march in the annual Labor Day Parade in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 2, 2024. The union announced on Sept. 18 that it would not endorse either of the major candidates for president in the U.S. election.
Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation, pay
FILE – Container ships are docked at the Port of New York and New Jersey in Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 20, 2021.
Iran nuclear chief says country has no ‘covert objectives’
Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, speaks during a media briefing on the new nuclear energy projections, at IAEA’s General Conference in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 16, 2024.
Pressure grows on Britain ahead of Commonwealth summit to pay slavery reparations
FILE – People ride a bus past flags representing Commonwealth countries next to Westminster Abbey in London on March 13, 2023. The Commonwealth is scheduled to meet Oct. 21-25, 2024, in Samoa.
Climate week talks to include critical minerals and seabed mining debate
FILE – Greenpeace activists from New Zealand and Mexico confront a deep-sea mining vessel commissioned by Canadian miner The Metals Company, as it returned from test mining for minerals in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Nov. 16, 2022.