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An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

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In Rome, talks to protect Earth's biodiversity resume with money topping the agenda
By STEVEN GRATTAN - Associated Press
Mon,02/24/25-5:45PM , 62 Reads
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

That is, how to spend what's been pledged so far — and how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.
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A mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people hours after they felt sick
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE - Associated Press
Mon,02/24/25-2:59PM , 48 Reads
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.
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Former Thai Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, a hard-line anti-communist in the 1970s, dies at 97
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,02/24/25-8:00AM , 106 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hard-line policies, has died at age 97, his family announced.
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Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU), at a side event of the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

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More pressure on Rwanda as Congo says rebel uprising has killed over 7,000 people this year
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE AND WILSON MCMAKIN - Associated Press
Mon,02/24/25-7:43AM , 115 Reads
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's prime minister said Monday, as the European Union announc
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