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Everything you need to know about the once-in-a-decade chance to stop the loss of biodiversity – and how you can help
Planet Earth is enduring the largest loss of life since the time of the dinosaurs, according to scientists. This loss is being driven by human behaviour, and governments are split on how to respond. At Cop15 in Montreal, many of these divisions will come to a head as they negotiate this decade’s UN biodiversity targets, known as the global biodiversity framework – or “GBF” if you are an insider. From the key players to what’s on the table, here’s what you need to know to make sense of the summit.

Iterable, now led by its other Asian-American co-founder, pushed back on former CEO Justin Zhu's claims and said it has "zero tolerance" for racism.

Unnamed expert tells state media outlet Yicai that Covid could be downgraded from a category A disease to category C
Coronavirus is weakening and management protocols could be downgraded, an expert on China’s state media has claimed, after led to a major shift in Beijing’s commitment to its zero-Covid policy.
Since January 2020, China has classified Covid-19 as a Category B infectious disease but has managed it under Category A protocols, which give local authorities the power to put patients and their close contacts into quarantine and lock down affected regions.

Shares in Hong Kong rallied as Beijing authorities relaxed measures designed to control the spread of the coronavirus.

Despite reports that China plans introduce measures to relax COVID restrictions, American depositary receipts of Asian stocks were moving 0.37% lower Monday at 1,517.73 on the S&P Asia 50 ADR Index.

Elon Musk's group and its Chinese rivals are often among the choices of investors betting on electric vehicles.

Chinese e-commerce platforms Alibaba JD.com and Tencent were ... Alibaba (ticker: BABA) shares rose more than 9% in Hong Kong. American depositary receipts were up 5% in premarket trading. Already a ...

Amid high inflation and the economic suffering of Americans here at home, President Joe Biden and some of his top Cabinet officials recently gathered in Egypt at COP27. It was a ritzy global gathering ...

Civil rights group claims outposts are used to monitor Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to return
Italy hosts the highest number of unofficial Chinese “police stations” out of a network of more than 100 around the world, a report by a Spanish civil rights group has claimed.
The northern Italian city of Milan was allegedly used by two local Chinese public security authorities as a European testing ground for a policing strategy to monitor the Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to return home.

Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.

Because the New York Knicks play basketball in the country’s largest media market, the entire hoops universe finds out when anything happens, good or bad, to an underperforming NBA franchise that hasn ...