Obama pledges $3B in climate aid

President Barack Obama will pledge $3 billion to an international climate fund aimed at helping developing countries prepare for and slow the effects of climate change, a White House official said Friday.

The U. S. pledged the money to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, an integral part of the international effort to craft an agreement to address climate change.

The fund, created in 2011, asks industrialized nations and their private sectors that pumped most of the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over the last century to now provide aid to developing countries so they can shift to low- carbon fuel and adapt to the effects of climate change. along nearby coasts.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake could cause hazardous tsunami waves within 186 miles of the epicenter along the nearby coasts of Indonesia and the southern Philippines.

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Baghdad blast: Iraqi hospital and police officials said a car bomb in a busy market area in northern Baghdad killed 15 people and injured 34 Friday. It was the largest of four bombings in and around the city on Friday, mostly targeting Shiite areas.

Not a tiger: A two-day search by some 200 French police and members of the armed forces for a wild cat roaming through towns came to one conclusion: It isn’t a tiger. In a statement late Friday, the regional administration near the search site said experts have concluded the wandering animal caught in several fuzzy photographs isn’t a tiger, but a feline of an unknown species.

Student dies: A West Virginia University student found unconscious and not breathing at a fraternity house died Friday, a day after the school ordered a halt to all activities at fraternities and sororities, officials said. Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston confirmed that Wednesday night’s incident was alcohol-related, but he could not comment on whether alcohol caused Nolan Burch’s death. No charges have been filed.

Sweet dreams: Fifty-six hours after landing on the surface of a comet, Philae sent one more round of data about its new home across 310 million miles of space. Then, its power went out. “(at)Rosetta, I’m feeling a bit tired, did you get all my data? I might take a nap …” read a message on the (at)philae2014 Twitter feed. The Rosetta mission’s Twitter response: “You’ve done a great job Philae, something no spacecraft has ever done before.”