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Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, said his country, which accounts for about 4.5 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions, will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change early next month.
Robert Schenk of Brick, N.J., ran in New York City’s annual Tunnel to Towers Run, joining a group who signed up for the race together after a 5K race they had planned to run in New Jersey on Sept. 17 was canceled when a pipe bomb exploded along the route.
Don Preister, a councilman in Bellevue, Neb., has proposed a ban on renters smoking inside apartments after cigarette smoking led to two fires in the city of 50,000 last month, one of which destroyed an apartment building, displacing dozens of people and injuring four.
Brian Andrew Whiteley, an artist who was fined $300 for littering after he installed a fake tombstone for Donald Trump in New York’s Central Park, is now displaying the stone, which Whiteley said he created to “help Donald reflect on the legacy he’s leaving behind,” in a Brooklyn art gallery.
Tryphena Natukunda, 18, was crowned Miss Young Positive in a beauty pageant for young Ugandan women with the virus that causes AIDS, an event that aims to inform people about the dangers of discriminating against people with the disease, organizers said.
Anthony Pesare, the police chief of Middletown, R.I., rescinded his order to euthanize a coyote known as Cliff, which will now be captured and relocated to a zoo, after a public campaign to save the animal, which Pesare said had appeared at a bus stop filled with children and chased a mother and her small child.
Ashot Grigoryan was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $4,000 after Missouri authorities said they found about 800 pounds of marijuana in the back of the truck he was driving from California to New York.
Saadet Yesil, 44, was part of an Istanbul protest in which participants donned shorts in solidarity with Aysegul Terzi, a young nurse who was the victim of an attack in which a man confessed to kicking her in the face on a bus for what he called her “inappropriate” clothing.
Karl Smith, 38, of Chicago confessed to a 2003 killing for which his twin brother, Kevin Dugar, was convicted, although prosecutors say Smith, who is serving a 99-year sentence for a 2008 armed robbery, has nothing to lose by admitting to Dugar’s crime and securing his release.