The mixed, messy COP26 outcome won't rein in global warming — summit texts and pledges simply can't do that — but it offered reasons for both hope and skepticism about spurring actions that can.
Catch up fast: The Glasgow deal reached Saturday calls for moving away from coal and completed years of talks on the structure of carbon markets. But it lacks provisions sought by vulnerable nations on compensation for climate-related losses.
Police in the United Kingdom arrested three men under the country's Terrorism Act after a car explosion outside a women's hospital in Liverpool killed at least one person and wounded another, Merseyside Police announced Sunday.
Details: A taxi carrying one passenger pulled up to the hospital Sunday and exploded just as the U.K.'s two-minute silence was set to begin on Remembrance Sunday, according to the BBC.
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Myanmar last week, was released on Monday and will be allowed to return to the United States, his employer, Frontier Myanmar, and former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson announced.
Why it matters: Fenster was the first Western journalist to be sentenced to prison in Myanmar since the country's military staged a coup in February by detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and ousting her democratically elected government.
The Women's Tennis Association on Sunday called on Chinese officials to investigate player Peng Shuai's allegations that China's former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli sexually assaulted her.
Why it matters: WTA CEO Steve Simon took the extraordinary step of issuing a statement calling for a "full, fair and transparent investigation" and an "end of censorship" against the former world no. 1 doubles player, who made the allegations in a since-deleted online post.
A Chinese businesswoman convicted of trespassing at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents in 2019 has been deported to China, the Miami Herald first reported Sunday.
The big picture: Yujing Zhang served an eight-month prison sentence before being transferred to immigration custody at the Glades County Detention Center in December 2019, per AP.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told "Axios on HBO" that the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol was also an attack on the core values of the world's biggest military alliance.
Driving the news: "I regard that as an attack on the core democratic institutions of the United States and therefore also on core values of NATO," Stoltenberg said in an interview recorded last Monday at NATO's headquarters in Brussels.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday called on the Cuban government to "respect" the rights of its citizens to "use their voices without fear of government reprisal or violence."
Why it matters: The remarks come ahead of a protest by Cubans planned for Monday to demand greater political freedoms and the release of activists arrested in previous demonstrations.
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, registered as a presidential candidate Sunday for the country's upcoming election, the nation's election agency said in a statement.
Why it matters: Gadhafi's presidential bid comes days after an international conference in Paris was held to pressure Libyan officials to hold a "free, fair, inclusive" presidential election next month.
