China called for implementation on Saturday after a historic deal was sealed in Paris on global efforts to combat climate change.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday exchanged views with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the Paris climate conference, the White House said Tuesday.
A final draft of a new global climate agreement was reached by negotiators in Paris on Saturday, ready for ministers to read and deal with sensitive political divergences next week.
China vows to continue to play a constructive role in the Paris climate talks, said China's special representative on climate change Xie Zhenhua to media here at the COP21 on Thursday.
The Paris climate talks entered stage of substantive negotiations on Tuesday as negotiators began to turn political will that their leaders expressed into concrete solutions to various disputes over a new climate agreement.
At the opening of 12 days of intensive negotiations on how to reduce global warming and preserve the planet, French President Francois Hollande on Monday asked for action and not only good will to find a universal, binding agreement by the end of the summit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Francois Hollande met in Paris late Sunday ahead of a key United Nations (UN) climate change conference, vowing to work together to make the conference a success.
Tens of thousands of Italians joined the Global Climate March 2015 with a rally in Rome on Sunday, urging world leaders to act courageously against climate change.
Optimism has mounted for the upcoming Paris climate change conference, with "a powerful, ambitious and legally binding deal" expected to be reached to deal with climate change after 2020.
A fourth suspect was charged on Monday in Belgium over the Paris terror attacks, the Belgian federal prosecutor announced.
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication tools in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, people familiar with the matter said.
Islamic State (IS) militants threatened to bomb the White House and launch more attacks in Paris, according to a new video released Thursday.
Tour operators canceled package trips and some predicted a further slowdown in bookings as jittery travelers hold off on immediate plans or look to go elsewhere.
"We must form a vast coalition to hit Daesh (IS) decisively," French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday, few days after the Islamist cell claimed it was responsible for the attacks of last Friday in Paris.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the APEC ministers expressed their condolences to the families of the victims of the multiple coordinated attacks in Paris.
"The terrorists will never destroy the Republic, because it is the Republic that will destroy them," French President Francois Hollande boldly stated Monday in his speech addressed to the two chambers of parliament here.
The United States and France have agreed on "concrete steps" to further intensify their military cooperation on fighting the Islamic State (IS) in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said Sunday.
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