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Brazil experiments with body cams to reduce deaths by police

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTETtoday
A police officer poses for a photo wearing a bulletproof vest installed with a body cam, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Brazil has a long history of police violence and now authorities are looking at body cameras as a way to avoid deadly incidents involving policemen. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

SAO PAULO (AP) — For years, Carlos Minc, a Rio de Janeiro state lawmaker, pushed to make body cameras mandatory in all law enforcement agencies. And for years, his proposal languished in Rio’s legislature.

Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire

By MARI YAMAGUCHItoday
Emergency workers and police investigate the scene at a train station in Tokyo on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, after a man brandishing a knife on a commuter train stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said. (NTV via AP)

TOKYO (AP) — A man dressed in Batman's Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said.

‘Last, best hope:’ Leaders launch crucial UN climate summit

By FRANK JORDANS and ELLEN KNICKMEYERan hour ago
Alok Sharma, right, President of the COP26 summit shakes hands with UNGA President Abdulla Shahid as outgoing COP president Carolina Schmidt, second right, and Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive-Secretary look on during the Procedural Opening of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow formally opens Sunday, a day before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland's biggest city to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists' demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at slowing intensifying global warming and adapting to the climate damage already underway.

Japan PM Kishida’s coalition keeps majority with fewer seats

By MARI YAMAGUCHItoday
Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Fumio Kishida puts rosettes by successful general election candidates' names on a board at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing coalition is expected to keep a majority in a parliamentary election Sunday but will lose some seats in a setback for his weeks-old government grappling with a coronavirus-battered economy and regional security challenges, according to exit polls. (Behrouz Mehri, Pool via AP)

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing coalition kept a majority in a parliamentary election Sunday but was expected to lose some seats in a setback for his weeks-old government grappling with a coronavirus-battered economy and regional security challenges, according to preliminary results.

G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing

By NICOLE WINFIELD, DAVID MCHUGH and KARL RITTERan hour ago
From left, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose in front of the Trevi Fountain during an event for the G20 summit in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit concludes on Sunday, the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

MIDDLE EAST

People chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Pro-democracy groups called for mass protest marches across the country Saturday to press demands for re-instating a deposed transitional government and releasing senior political figures from detention. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

UN chief to Sudan army: Reverse coup, take heed of protests

American B-1B bomber flies over Mideast amid Iran tensions

Fate of Lebanon minister after row with Gulf stirs division

Saudi Aramco sees third-quarter income rise to $30.4 billion

Tens of thousands protest Sudan's coup, 3 protesters killed

AFRICA

People chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Pro-democracy groups called for mass protest marches across the country Saturday to press demands for re-instating a deposed transitional government and releasing senior political figures from detention. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

UN chief to Sudan army: Reverse coup, take heed of protests

Nigerian Nobel-winning author Wole Soyinka has hope in young

Moroccans protest vaccine pass required for work, travel

Ethiopia's rival Tigray forces claim to take strategic city

South Africa's power cuts a key issue in local elections

Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead after pandemic closures

By MARCO UGARTE and LISSETTE ROMEROan hour ago
A woman made up as a "Catrina" and wearing a face shield posed for a photo during Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. Altars and artwork from around the country were on display in a parade, as Mexicans honor the Day of the Dead. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico returned Sunday to mass commemorations of the Day of the Dead, after traditional visits to graveyards were prohibited last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the one-year hiatus showed how the tradition itself refuses to die: Most families still celebrated with home altars to deceased loved ones, and some snuck into cemeteries anyway.

ASIA

Emergency workers and police investigate the scene at a train station in Tokyo on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, after a man brandishing a knife on a commuter train stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said. (NTV via AP)

Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire

Japan PM Kishida's coalition keeps majority with fewer seats

Blinken raised concerns about Taiwan with China

Thais launch campaign for repeal of royal defamation law

Former US ambassador Bill Richardson heads to Myanmar

UN chief to Sudan army: Reverse coup, take heed of protests

By SAMY MAGDYtoday
People chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Pro-democracy groups called for mass protest marches across the country Saturday to press demands for re-instating a deposed transitional government and releasing senior political figures from detention. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. secretary general urged Sudan’s generals on Sunday to reverse their takeover of the country, a day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the largest pro-democracy protest since last week’s coup.

Ex-UN climate chief doesn’t see Paris-type moment in Glasgow

By SETH BORENSTEIN30 minutes ago
Christiana Figueres, former UN climate chief who led the 2015 Paris accord, speaks to The Associated Press in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow formally opens Sunday, a day before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland's biggest city to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Christiana Figueres knows how to hammer out a climate deal, and she doesn’t expect the United Nations conference that just started in Glasgow to end with the kind of big moment she engineered in Paris six years ago.

The Latest: Macron says Australia’s Morrison lied to him

an hour ago
Leaders of the G20 throw coins inside the Trevi Fountain during an event for the G20 summit in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit concludes on Sunday, the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

The Latest on the Group of 20 summit in Rome:

ROME — French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him while he was secretly negotiating a submarine deal with the United States and Britain.

Ash covers the graves at the La Palma cemetery as volcano continues to erupt on this Canary island, Spain, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. An erupting volcano in the Spanish island of La Palma continued to emit vast amounts of magma, gases and ash, after days of intense seismic activity and more than five weeks since it erupted. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

With no sign of eruption’s end, ash blankets La Palma island

By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRAtoday

Gas blasts rock central Mexican city, killing at least 1

By MARÍA VERZA2 hours ago
Firefighters walk the scene after a series of explosions at a neighborhood in Puebla, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. Officials say an illegal tap on a gas line is apparently to blame for the early morning explosions that killed at least one person and injured more than a dozen, destroying dozens of homes and causing the evacuation of some 2000 persons. (AP Photo/Pablo Spencer)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Early morning explosions, apparently caused by an illegal tap on a gas line, shook the central Mexican city of Puebla on Sunday, killing at least one person, injuring 11 and damaging dozens of homes, according to state officials

Highlights of what was agreed to at the G-20 summit in Rome

By DAVID McHUGHtoday
Activists from Extinction Rebellion block a road during a demonstration outside the G20 summit in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit concludes on Sunday, the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. Signs on shirts read 'Governments have failed'. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

ROME (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 countries haggled for two days in Rome over steps to tackle climate change and a pandemic recovery that is diverging between rich and poor countries. Climate change dominated their summit, which ended just as an annual U.N.

Biden tells Erdogan that US and Turkey must avoid crises

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAKtoday
President Joe Biden meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the G20 leaders summit, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Rome. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ROME (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday that their countries must better manage disagreements after the partnership between NATO allies was tested by Turkey's threat to no longer recognize the American envoy and its purchase of a Russian missile defense system.

Saudi crown prince’s investment forum draws back Westerners

By AYA BATRAWYtoday
In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, a Saudi participant attends the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Saudi Arabia’s annual cornerstone investment forum has drawn over 1,000 participants, with big-name U.S. financiers and business leaders back on the stage, three years after many stayed away following the international outcry over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a government critic, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s annual cornerstone investment forum has drawn over 1,000 participants, with big-name U.S. financiers and business leaders back on the stage three years after many stayed away following the international outcry over the killing of a government critic.

Blinken raised concerns about Taiwan with China

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAKtoday
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi meet, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 at an hotel in Rome on the sidelines of the G20 of World Leaders Summit. (AP Photo/Tiziana Fabi, pool)

ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as part of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday — an outreach designed to ensure that the intensely competitive relationship between the world's two largest economies doesn't veer into open conflicts.

An “eraser button”? Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech

By MARCY GORDONtoday
FILE - A woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Lawmakers are getting creative as they introduce a slew of bills intended to take Big Tech down a peg and the proposed legislation targeting personal data collected from young people could hit the bottom line of the social media companies. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry?

What is COP? Key facts and terms at climate summit explained

By FRANK JORDANStoday
In this combination of 2021 and 2017 photos, a man watches as wildfires approach Kochyli beach on the Greek island of Evia, and a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf is observed during a flyover by NASA. The 2021 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow renews an urgent question to the international community: Can the world come together to confront the common enemy of global warming before it’s too late? (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou; John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming.

American B-1B bomber flies over Mideast amid Iran tensions

By JON GAMBRELLtoday
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The U.S. Air Force said Sunday it flew a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Sunday it flew a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters.

India, UK to launch global solar grid project at COP26

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSALtoday
Ajay Mathur, director general of the International Solar Alliance, speaks to the Associated Press in his office in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting countries in different parts of the world at the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. The project, known as the “Green Grids Initiative,” is being initiated by the International Solar Alliance, which was launched by India and France at the 2015 Paris climate conference to promote solar energy. The U.K. and India agreed to join forces in the initiative in May this year. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting countries in different parts of the world at the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.

G-20 endorses global corporate minimum tax at Rome summit

By DAVID McHUGH, FRANCES D'EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBETyesterday
Britain's Prince Charles, left, is greeted by Italian President Sergio Mattarella as he arrives to attend a reception and dinner at the Quirinale presidential Palace in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (Aaron Chown/Pool via AP)

ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.

The Latest: Gala dinner for world leaders at G-20 summit

yesterday
U.S. President Joe Biden shares a light moment with the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi during the family photo of the G20 summit at the La Nuvola conference center, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (Erin Schaff/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest on the Group of 20 summit taking place in Rome:

ROME — World leaders are capping their day of Group of 20 summitry on Saturday with a gala dinner at the Quirinale Palace.

Their dinner menu included marinated salmon, risotto with pumpkin and white truffle, and sea bass, with a tangerine cream dessert.


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