Climate activists from around the world held up coloured papers forming a giant human sign to 'end plastic' in South Korea's port city of Busan on Sunday (November 24) ahead of UN plastic talks.
About 500 activists, including members from the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements in South Korea and Friends of the Earth in 10 countries, joined the forming of the sign on Haeundae beach.
Activists also marched down beach area with pickets containing slogans such as "no plastic" and "life in plastic, not fantastic!"
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution will meet from November 25 to December 1 in Busan to work on a legally binding treaty that addresses plastic pollution including in the marine environment.
Negotiators are working towards the first-ever global plastics treaty, that addresses not just how plastics are discarded, but also how much plastic is produced and how it is used. The treaty could become the most significant pact to address global climate-warming emissions since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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South Korea's top trade envoy, Yeo Han-koo, is heading to the United States on Monday for follow-up tariff negotiations, the trade ministry said, as the countries struggle to overcome obstacles to finalise a trade deal agreed in July.
Around 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday, one week after being detained in a large-scale U.S. immigration raid at a battery project site in Georgia.
U.S. President Donald Trump offered to allow hundreds of South Korean workers arrested during an immigration enforcement raid to stay in the United States to train American workers, but only one has opted to remain, South Korean officials said.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Thursday, (11 September), that a U.S. immigration raid resulting in the detention of hundreds of workers at a Hyundai Motor business project could have an impact on U.S. investment decisions made by Korean companies.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
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A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
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Israel destroyed a score of buildings in Gaza, killing at least 16 Palestinians, local health authorities said on Monday, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the war with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Palestinians picked up the pieces of their lives on Monday (15 September) in Gaza City, after the Al-Jundi al-Majhoul building was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday.
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