New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bowl against England in the first semi-final of the #T20WorldCup on Wednesday, with Jonny Bairstow to open England's innings with Jos Buttler u.afp.com/wJyg#ENGvNZ#AFPSports
#BREAKING US consumer prices rose 6.2% over 12 months to October: govt
#UPDATE US consumer prices surged again in October, increasing 6.2% compared to the same month last year as costs rose for a range of items, the government said Wednesday u.afp.com/wJFw#CPI#inflation
#BREAKING President Biden says reversing US inflation spike a 'top priority'
#BREAKING Draft COP26 text urges nations to speed up emissions goals by 2022
#UPDATE A draft text at the COP26 climate summit urged countries Wednesday to revisit their emissions cutting goals by the end of 2022, three years ahead of schedule, after data showed current plans were far from limiting heating to 1.5C
#UPDATE A draft #COP26 climate summit text on Wednesday urged countries to boost their #emissions cutting goals by 2022 -- three years earlier than planned -- as British PM Boris Johnson dashed back to Glasgow to check the pulse of negotiations u.afp.com/wJtc
#UPDATES Polish police say they have detained over 50 migrants who crossed into Poland from Belarus over the last 24 hours, and are still looking for others
#BREAKING Belarus says West 'provoking' migrant crisis to impose new sanctions
#BREAKING Over a dozen local UN staff detained in Ethiopia: humanitarian sources
#UPDATE More than a dozen Ethiopian staffers working for the United Nations have been arrested in #AddisAbaba in raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans under a state of emergency, UN and humanitarian sources told AFP Tuesday u.afp.com/wJRB
#BREAKING Sixteen UN staff still detained in Ethiopia, six released: UN spokesman
#BREAKING Putin, Lukashenko discuss migrant stand-off on Poland-Belarus border: Kremlin
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, have discussed a migrant stand-off on the border between Poland and Belarus that the EU accuses Minsk of orchestrating, the Kremlin said
#BREAKING France says Belarus 'seeking to destabilise EU' with migrant surge