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Extinction Rebellion members lie on the ground, covered in fake crude oil, to protest an exhibition sponsored by BP at The National Portrait Gallery in London, Britain October 20, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Visitors to a London portrait gallery were treated to an impromptu performance on Sunday when three semi-naked climate activists were

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 despite an unsigned letter that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced by his opponents to send to the bloc requesting a Brexit delay, the government said on Sunday. The Brexit maelstrom has spun wildly in the past week between the possibility of an

FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S.,September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund is examining the impact of climate on the world’s financial markets and whether it is priced into market valuations, the head of the global lender’s markets

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to the European Union on Saturday requesting a delay to Brexit but he also sent another message in which he stated he did not want the extension, a government source said. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to head for the

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday, a day of reckoning that could decide the course of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to head for the

(Reuters) – Northern Californians can expect widespread power cuts aimed at preventing wildfires for a decade while Pacific Gas & Electric upgrades wires systems, cuts back trees and takes other safety measures, the utility’s chief executive said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Cars destroyed by a wind-driven wildfire called the Saddle Ridge fire are seen in

A person takes a picture of an Extinction Rebellion climate change activist on the scaffolding of the Big Ben tower in London, Britain, October 18, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson LONDON (Reuters) – A climate-change protester climbed scaffolding around London’s Big Ben tower at parliament on Friday, as nearly two weeks of action from the Extinction Rebellion

EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) – Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of protesters marching in Canada’s energy heartland Alberta on Friday, as a smaller counter-rally led by a truck convoy of oil and gas workers also converged on the provincial capital Edmonton. A crowd of several thousand led by indigenous drummers with students, young people

LONDON (Reuters) – When Elton John was working on his new autobiography, the legendary singer, songwriter and performer pulled out diaries he had been encouraged to write during a stint in rehab. One entry read like this: “Got up, tidied the house, bought a Rolls Royce, had dinner, wrote ‘Candle in the Wind,’ had dinner

LENK IM SIMMENTAL, Switzerland (Reuters) – Perched nearly 2,000 meters above the Swiss ski village of Lenk, a lake has emerged as the Plaine Morte glacier melts. When it burst it sent billions of liters of water gushing into the valley below and prompted a precautionary evacuation last July. FILE PHOTO: The Simme river flows

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Brexit deal that Britain has struck with the European Union faces a big hurdle in a vote in the country’s parliament on Saturday but its approval is better than

LONDON (Reuters) – BHP shareholders are poised to reject a motion urging the world’s biggest listed miner to suspend membership of some industry bodies judged to be at odds with goals to tackle climate change, initial voting in London suggested on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Visitors to the BHP (formerly known as BHP Billiton) booth speak

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate on Wednesday visited a melting glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range not far from Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, witnessing first hand the impact of climate change their trip is seeking to highlight. Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit a village in

LONDON (Reuters) – British shoppers grew more cautious about their spending in the three months to September despite rising wages, official figures showed on Thursday, raising concerns about the health of the economy in the run-up to Brexit. People shopping on Oxford Street in central London, Britain, December 20, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/Files Consumer spending has

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at Downing Street in London, Britain October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will go to Brussels early Thursday in a move to have some useful meetings for a Brexit deal, Beth Rigby, Sky News political

LONDON (Reuters) – About 150 mothers with babies and young children defied a police ban on climate protests to stage a “nurse-in” outside the London offices of Google on Wednesday, while activists launched a parallel protest at the premises of its subsidiary YouTube. The mothers said they were acting in response to a report in