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UN shipping regulator advocates for industry emissions fee at COP30, despite Trump pushback2:25 The head of the International Maritime Organization said Monday he’s continuing to “advocate and campaign” for global regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels, after the United States and Saudi Arabia blocked new rules last month Families accuse Camp Mystic of ignoring risks in Texas lawsuit over flood deaths1:52 The families of some of the 25 girls and two teenage counselors who died in catastrophic flooding in Texas on July 4 are suing Camp Mystic and its owners A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd1:52 Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of a southwest Alaska caribou herd Idaho attorney general's office says no charges warranted against sheriff after turbulent town hall1:19 The Idaho Attorney General’s Office has declined to file charges against a northern Idaho sheriff after investigating a turbulent legislative town hall meeting during which a woman was forcibly removed by security workers in plainclothes Major motor neurone disease breakthrough offers hope to those with ‘cruel’ condition1:19 A new medicine, discovered by scientists, protects nerve cells damaged by motor neurone disease ( MND ), offering hope of substantially slowing the progression of "one of the cruellest diseases". Barbers and vape stores among 2,700 high street shops raided in money-laundering crackdown1:19 These extensive raids – the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering – form the second stage of Operation Machinize ‘Dangerous’ young offender institutions should be shut down, children’s commissioner says1:19 Dame Rachel de Souza has called for a new youth justice system "based primarily upon a rehabilitative model of care” |