French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.

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President Biden is asking the federal government to spend an additional $14 billion on tackling climate change in his budget request for fiscal 2022, according to the White House. 

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The White House is taking action after progressives pushed to add seats to the court to balance the conservative stamp put on it by President Trump.

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Jordan’s King Abdullah has addressed the rare public rift within the royal family for the first time, saying the “sedition” that caused him “pain and anger” has been buried.

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Jordan's King Abdullah says sedition quashed, country stable

South America is the most worrying region for COVID-19 infections, as cases mount in nearly every country, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday. "Nowhere are infections as worrisome as in South America", Director Carissa Etienne said during a weekly press conference. Brazil has seen perhaps the most merciless surge

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Nowhere as worrisome for COVID-19 infections as South America, Brazil concerning: PAHO

Bavaria will buy 2.5 million doses of Russia's Sputnik coronavirus vaccine if it is approved by the European Medicines Agency, the premier of the German region said on Wednesday.

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Forbes' annual world's billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company said on Tuesday. The ranks of the ultra-wealthy are expanding after a year in which the coronavirus pandemic upended world economies and threatened the livelihoods of people across

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Bezos, Musk top Forbes' record-setting billionaire list

- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined Amazon.com Inc illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the New York Times reported on Monday. Last year, Amazon fired two user experience designers, Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, for what it called repeated violations of internal policies. 

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