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Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai. But the rules of the game in the tightly controlled United Arab Emirates at the site supervised

TOMASZÓW MAZOWIECKI, Poland - Canada's Laurent Dubreuil added to his medal haul this weekend with World Cup gold on Sunday in the men's 500-metre long track speedskating event.

G42: The Emirati committee organizing COP28 said an agreement between the U.N.s climate arm and the UAE government calls for only the U.N.s Department for Safety and Security to have access to data from security cameras in the Blue Zone, a large area where delegates negotiate, smaller meetings between non-governmental organizations happen and journalists work.

Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks and the summit's president is determined to finish up talks by Tuesday.

Activists protested at the COP28 summit in Dubai, calling for a Gaza cease-fire and the release of detainees in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

Climate negotiators at a United Nations conference try to get strongest agreements out of nations on reducing fossil fuels in a dangerously warming planet.

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Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai. A small group of demonstrators protesting the detention of activists — one from Egypt and two from the UAE — were not allowed to hold up signs bearing their names.

TOMASZÓW MAZOWIECKI, Poland - After being held off the podium on Friday, Canadian speedskaters bounced back to pick up two silver medals in World Cup long-track action on Saturday.

Scientists are warning us about the dangers of climate change. But are we willing to listen?