KATOWICE, Poland -- Negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Saturday agreed on a package of the implementation guidelines, or a common rulebook of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), stretched beyond official closing time on Friday evening and overran deep into Saturday in the southern Polish city of Katowice. (Poland-Paris Agreement-COP 24)

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HARARE -- The 17th ZANU-PF annual national people's conference ended in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province on Saturday, with all Provinces endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's sole candidate for the next elections due in 2023.

The conference was being held under the theme "Zimbabwe Is Open for Business: Peace, unity towards an Upper Middle-Income Economy by 2030." Reading out the resolutions, Politburo member Jacob Mudenda said the party would start restructuring next year in preparation for the next elections. (Zimbabwe-Mnangagwa)

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BRUSSELS -- While around 50 "yellow vests" protesters began demonstrating in Brussels for the third time Saturday, the far-right party Nation made an unwelcomed presence around 3 p.m..

The Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported that the far-right Nation party had made a formal request for the right to demonstrate in the streets of Brussels, which was refused at the last moment by the mayor of Ixelles. (Belgium-Yellow Vests)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Khaled al-Anany, announced Saturday the discovery of an "exceptionally well-preserved" tomb belonging to a Fifth Dynasty royal priest at Saqqara Necropolis near Giza's pyramids.

"The Old Kingdom tomb is well preserved and the walls are decorated with colored scenes depicting the owner of the tomb with his mother, wife and family as well as a number of niches with large colored statues of the deceased and his family," the minister told Xinhua. (Egypt-Discovery-Pyramids) Enditem

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