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Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted today by a man who approached her on stage, after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in Amsterdam. Ms Thunberg was talking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she asked the women to join her on the stage. 'As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity,' she said. After the Palestinian and Afghan...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who became notorious for serving only 6 1/2 years for setting his son on fire two decades ago will not be sentenced to life in prison on a handgun charge under California's tough three-strikes law, a judge ruled Thursday. Charley Charles, known as Charles Rothenberg when he burned his 6-year-old son in 1983, was convicted in February of illegally possessing a handgun that he said he needed as protection from vigilantes bent on retaliation for the crime against the boy. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Lee indicated she was reluctantly not counting Charles'...