French bank BNP Paribas said Tuesday it plans to cut its financing of oil extraction and production by 80 percent by 2030.. BNP Paribas said it plans to have more than 80 percent of its energy production financing activities geared towards the production of low-carbon energies.
The Swiss parliament decided Tuesday to open an investigation targeting President Alain Berset, among others, over media leaks linked to government measures at the height of the pandemic.. The Schweiz am Wochende newspaper reported earlier this month that Berset's former communications chief had, at the height of the pandemic, systematically leaked information to one of Switzerland's largest media houses about confidential government plans for measures to counter the spread of the virus, including around vaccines and the reopening of businesses.
Grey and grim: a concrete box modelled after Alexei Navalny's jail cell has been installed by supporters of the imprisoned Kremlin critic across the street from the Russian embassy in Berlin.. Opening the installation on Tuesday, his supporters said they hoped it would raise awareness of the dire conditions Navalny was being held in.
Gang violence is spiralling out of control in Haiti, the UN envoy to that country said Tuesday as she appealed again for the creation of an international force to restore order in the poorest country in the Americas.. The appeal was reiterated Tuesday by Haiti's ambassador to the UN, Antonio Rodrigue, who said that without restoration of law and order the country cannot hold new elections and get back on its feet.
Norway on Tuesday said it plans to offer a record number of gas and oil exploration blocks in the Arctic, with environmental NGOs condemning an "aggressive" promotion of fossil fuels.. The NGO said the proposal would violate the commitment not to explore virgin territory as some blocks were to be located far from existing infrastructure.
A Spanish court on Tuesday rejected a plea from a former leader of the Hells Angels to end his trial on the grounds that the charges against him were based on illegal wiretaps.. Spanish prosecutors accuse him of founding the Hells Angel chapter in Mallorca and then appointing its members -- who are suspected of crimes including pimping, extortion, drug trafficking and acquiring illegal firearms.
Kyiv on Tuesday announced the dismissal of a dozen top officials in its biggest political shakeup following the country's first major corruption scandal linked to the Russian invasion.. Despite being vocal about fighting corruption, Zelensky himself has been embroiled in corruption scandals in the past.
An 80-year-old blonde baby doll called Inge.. She called the piano's journey a kind of "miracle" and part of a "new way of telling stories" about the Holocaust.
Two hundred children who arrived in the UK seeking asylum without their parents in the last 18 months are missing, immigration minister Robert Jenrick said on Tuesday.. Jenrick said that since July 2021 there have been "440 missing occurrences", where asylum seekers did not return to their hotels, where they are staying voluntarily.
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva knows she has her work cut out to protect the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest that is shared among nine countries.. Brasilia will not be able to pull off miracles without international help, said Silva, who was previously environment minister during Lula's first two terms as president (from 2003 to 2010) before quiting in 2008 in protest against what she called a lack of funding.
