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UN says Greenhouse gas levels hit a new record, cuts fall short

By Jamey Keaten, Frank Jordans, Associated Press

The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade.

U.S. details new international COVID-19 travel requirements

By Zeke Miller, David Koenig, Associated Press

The Biden administration is detailing its new international COVID-19 air travel policies for most foreign travelers to the U.S, which will include exemptions for kids and new federal contact tracing requirements.

World set to miss goal of $100 billion climate aid pledged to poor

By Frank Jordans, Associated Press

Officials say a target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each year to tackle global warming will be missed, dealing a blow to the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow.

AP explainer: How months of tensions led to Sudan’s coup

By Samy Magdy, Lee Keath, Associated Press

The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country's fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

U.S. official urges Russia to send more gas to Europe ‘quickly’

By David McHugh, Associated Press

A senior energy adviser to President Joe Biden urged Russia to supply more natural gas to Europe now rather than wait for approval of a new pipeline.

Facebook has struggled to curb divisive content in India

By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press

Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content on its platforms in the world's biggest democracy. Communal and religious tensions in India have a history of boiling over on social media and stoking violence.

Facebook’s language gaps allow terrorist content and hate speech to thrive

By Isabel Debre, Fares Akram, Associated Press

Internal company documents show the problems are far more systemic than just a few innocent mistakes, and that Facebook has understood the depth of these failings for years while doing little about it.

Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over human trafficking

By Jon Gambrell, Jim Gomez, Associated Press

Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.

Russia-backed hackers are targeting cloud services, Microsoft says

By Alan Suderman, Associated Press

Microsoft said Monday the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global technology supply chain and have been relentlessly targeting cloud service companies and others since summer.

Sudan’s military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister

By Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Sudan's military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country's shaky progress toward democracy.