A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of negotiations.

On a visit to New Delhi, PM Shinzo Abe announces high-speed train deal along with defence and nuclear agreements.

Al Jazeera's China team mobbed while reporting on the slow demise of the steel town of Qingbaijiang.

"Ambitious" global climate change accord adopted at UN talks in Paris.

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Abu Mohamad al-Joulani says groups involved in discussions in Riyadh have committed 'treason'.

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Female band formed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un scraps its first concert abroad and hurriedly returns home.

jones_supa writes: 195 countries have adopted the first global pact to fight climate change by reducing emissions. Countries will have to publish greenhouse gas reduction targets and revise them upward every 5 years, while striving to drive down their carbon output as soon as possible, under the ambitious climate-change pact announced Saturday morning at UN talks in Paris. The agreement commits countries to keeping global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and hopes to limit it to 1.5 C, with the goal of a carbon-neutral world sometime after 2050. The 31-page text called the Paris Agreement (PDF) was distributed to countries for them to assess, then agreed to at a plenary session.

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Two Syrians detained in Geneva amid a heightened alert over the threat of 'terrorism'.

A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C is agreed at the climate change summit in Paris.

Delegates from 195 nations green-light new accord that seeks to keep average temperature increase below 2 degrees C.

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