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President Biden has told the United Nations Climate Summit that the fight against global warming offers extraordinary economic opportunities. He said creating technologies to reduce carbon emissions would create millions of jobs around the world. Mr. Biden apologized for the action of his predecessor Donald Trump who pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accords.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the conference that his country aims to become carbon neutral by the year 2070. It’s the first time India, one of the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases has announced a net zero target.

The Prime Minister of Barbados has appealed to world leaders to do more to tackle climate change. Mia Mottley said a rise in global temperatures of two degrees would amount to a death sentence.

An apartment block in Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos has collapsed while under construction. Rescue workers are using heavy lifting equipment to search through the rubble and twisted metal for survivors. Four bodies have been recovered so far.

The American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck has died at the age of 100. He's regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, which is now the world’s most studied form of psychotherapy. His work became the center of revolution in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and many other mental disorders in the 1960s.

Lebanon's Foreign Minister has called for a dialogue with Saudi Arabia in its diplomatic roar with gulf states. The crisis began last week when the Lebanese Information Minister criticized the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.

Mexico's National Football Association has been sanctioned by FIFA after fans' homophobic chants at players from two opposing countries during World Cup qualifiers last month.

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