Alcon, an international eye care company with facilities in Berks County, has announced it plans to acquire STAAR Surgical Co. Under the terms of the agreement announced Tuesday, Alcon will purchase ...

Torkwase NyiekaaAmbassador Dapo Oyewole, Secretary General of the Conference of Speakers and Presidents of African Legislatures (CoSPAL), has called for reinforced parliamentary cooperation and ...

Geneva Police are looking for suspects they say damaged a basketball court that was recently just resurfaced. Police say at ...

But a bit further into Wisconsin and near the Illinois border is the town that has now been named one of the most dangerous ...

Virgin resin production caps remain in the mix in the global plastics treaty talks, but there are signs at the start of the ...

As delegates from 184 countries begin talks in Geneva on a global treaty to curb plastic waste and pollution, the negotiations that began in 2022 are nowhere close to an agreement.

A new study published in the scientific journal Lancet Countdown reveals that the world loses $1.5 trillion annually (Sh193.8 ...

World leaders are in Geneva this week trying to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic ...

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting over whether that matters.

The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that ...