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Russian singer Naoko jailed after street gigs draw Kremlin’s attention

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Russian singer Diana Loginova, known by her stage name Naoko, has been jailed in Russia after performing songs that authorities say are critical of the Kremlin. Naoko was detained for 13 days for organizing a “mass simultaneous gathering of citizens” during performances but is serving back-to-back sentences after being rearrested twice.



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Nov. 22, 2025, 6:45 AM ESTBy Denise ChowAs representatives from nearly 200 nations were wrapping up talks at the United Nations’ COP30 climate summit this week, the United States was not only absent, the Trump administration also introduced a series of sweeping proposals to roll back environmental protections and encourage fossil fuel drilling.The United Nations Climate Change Conference ended Friday in the Brazilian city of Belém, where delegates gathered to hammer out a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, boost climate action and limit global warming.For the first time in the summit’s history, the U.S. — one of the top emitters of greenhouse gases — did not send a delegation. Instead, the Trump administration this week announced a plan to open up new oil drilling off the coasts of California and Florida for the first time in decades and proposed rule changes to weaken the Endangered Species Act and limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to protect wetlands and streams.“These rules double down on the administration’s refusal to confront the climate crisis in a serious way and, in fact, move us in the opposite direction,” said Jessie Ritter, associate vice president of waters and coasts for the National Wildlife Federation, a conservation group.Indigenous people take part in a demonstration during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference on Nov. 17.Pablo Porciuncula / AFP / Getty ImagesThe White House told NBC News Friday that this week’s “historic” announcements aim to “further President Trump’s American energy dominance agenda.”“President Trump is reversing government overreach, restoring energy security, and protecting American jobs by rolling back excessive, burdensome regulations and creating new opportunities to ‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL,’” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement. “President Trump serves the American people, not radical climate activists who have fallen victim to the biggest scam of the century.”Ritter said the new proposals signal to the world just how much the U.S. has stepped back from any meaningful climate action.“I doubt that this surprises folks who have been watching in the international arena,” she said. “But it’s unfortunate, given the example the U.S. sets and what our leadership, or lack thereof, emboldens other countries to do.”The Trump administration’s announcement on Thursday that it intends to open up roughly 1.27 billion acres of coastal U.S. waters for oil drilling drew bipartisan pushback.Although the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association for the oil and gas industry, hailed the program as a “historic step toward unleashing our nation’s vast offshore resources,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) pushed to uphold the current moratorium on drilling, which Trump extended during his first term.“I have been speaking to @SecretaryBurgum and made my expectations clear that this moratorium must remain in place, and that in any plan, Florida’s coasts must remain off the table for oil drilling to protect Florida’s tourism, environment, and military training opportunities,” Scott wrote Thursday on X, referring to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Across the country, California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote on X that “Donald Trump’s idiotic proposal to sell off California’s coasts to his Big Oil donors is dead in the water.” “We will not stand by as our coastal economy and communities are put in danger,” he said.The drilling directive came just three days after the Trump administration proposed major limits to the Clean Water Act of 1972 that would undo protections from pollution and runoff for most of the country’s small streams and wetlands. The rule would narrow the definition of which bodies qualify as “waters of the United States” under the act.If finalized, the changes would mean that the fewest freshwater resources would be under federal protection since the law was enacted, according to Jon Devine, who heads the water policy team at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.“By EPA’s own estimate, only about 19% of the country’s wetlands would be protected against unregulated destruction and development if this were finalized,” Devin said.EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26.Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg / Getty ImagesWetlands act as buffers against flooding by absorbing and storing water during extreme rainfall and other high runoff events. As the world warms, coastal and inland flooding is expected to become more frequent and severe.“Many of the places that we already have in the U.S. that are increasingly flood-prone due to climate change are going to be even more in harm’s way,” Devine said.Wetlands and streams also feed into other bodies of water that serve as critical drinking water supplies across the country, so critics fear the policy could make drinking water unsafe in some communities.The third major environmental rollback announced this week was a set of four rules that would erode protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The proposed changes aim to make it easier to remove species classified as threatened or endangered and harder to add new protected species and their habitats to the list. The rules, if passed, would also allow the government to consider “economic impacts” in decisions to list or de-list species.Red wolves shown at the North Carolina Museum of Life + Science in 2017. Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images fileTaken together, Ritter said, these three proposals are consistent with the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda.“These decisions prioritize short-term gain, often for a few industries and special interests, at the expense of things that have been widely bipartisan and important issues for people for decades,” Ritter said.The impacts of the changes might not all be apparent right away, she added, but the scale of the long-term consequences could be immense.“It’s truly not an exaggeration that this is going to touch all Americans in some way,” she said. “Everything is connected, and it’s hubris to think that we can have these massive negative effects on our streams and wetlands, our animals, our coastal waters, without impacts to humans.”Denise ChowDenise Chow is a science and space reporter for NBC News.
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Nov. 22, 2025, 8:37 AM ESTBy Mithil AggarwalA U.S.-led peace plan that mirrors several key Russian demands has sent ripples across Europe, with leaders meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa this weekend in the hopes of making the plan more favorable to Kyiv.”We must all work together, with both the U.S. and Ukraine, to secure a just and lasting peace once and for all,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday ahead of the summit, which the U.S. is not attending.Allies will discuss the current proposal and look at how they can “strengthen this plan for the next phase of negotiations,” he said.President Donald Trump has set Thanksgiving as the deadline for Ukraine to agree to the 28-point framework, which suggests that Russia could be granted more territory than it holds, limits placed on Ukraine’s army, and Kyiv prevented from ever joining NATO — Moscow’s long-sought demands.The U.S. proposals do include a security guarantee modeled on NATO’s Article 5, which would commit the U.S. and European allies to treat a future attack on Ukraine as an attack on the entire trans-Atlantic community, according to a U.S. official, though there are few specifics on what that would entail.Top Ukrainian and U.S. officials will meet in Switzerland to discuss “possible parameters of a future peace,” Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, wrote on Telegram Saturday. Separately, Zelenskyy’s office said Saturday that the delegation has been confirmed for the talks, which “will take place in the coming days.” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe White House has described the plan as “the best win-win scenario, where both parties gain more than they must give,” saying the proposals were crafted with input from Russia and Ukraine. However, analysts say the plan could amount to a dangerous capitulation for Ukraine, which has previously rejected plans that would require recognizing Russia’s illegal annexations of the entire eastern Donetsk region and Crimea.”Even if parts of this plan were to be shoved down Ukraine’s throat, it would be the end of Ukraine as we know it. It’s a real capitulation,” Michael Bociurkiw, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, who was in Johannesburg, told NBC News by phone.The U.S. was facilitating a “potentially disastrous surrender for Ukraine,” Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, said.”And now we will see yet another panicked scramble by European leaders to head off an outcome that would be disastrous for their own security,” he said, adding that the European response towards “repeated disastrous peace plans has been in words, not action.””There should be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Ursula Von der Leyen, the European Commission President, said Friday in a post on X, adding European leaders will also meet in Angola next week.Ukraine must have a “decisive voice in peace talks,” Polish President Karol Nawrocki said late Friday on X. “The price of peace cannot in any way be the achievement of strategic goals by the aggressor, and the aggressor was and remains the Russian Federation,” he added.As European leaders mulled over the plan on the G20 summit’s sidelines, notably absent was Trump, who is boycotting the event over his unfounded claims that the country’s white minority is subject to hate crimes and land grabs.While Trump initially said Vice President JD Vance would attend, he later said there would be no U.S. delegation taking part. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has an International Criminal Court warrant calling for his arrest, is also not attending.How much Europe will actually be able to influence the plan without U.S. involvement remains an open question, and one with implications for both Ukraine’s borders and peace for the broader continent.“They can’t influence this,” said Bociurkiw. “It makes NATO and Europe look weak, and Putin will go on and on to cause more disruptions,” he said.”It’s like a speed train and you have Putin and Trump on it, and then you have Zelenskyy on the departure platform and Europe stuck at the check-in counter,” he added.Giles said the military aspects of the peace plan leave Ukraine effectively defenseless against a future Russian attack.“And since Ukraine forms the front line of the defense of Europe, this is a potentially disastrous outcome for the continent as a whole,” Giles said.Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives to attend a trilateral with France and Germany on the sidelines of a G20 summit to discuss a joint response to a unilateral U.S. plan for Ukraine.Leon Neal / AFP – Getty ImagesLawmakers in Ukraine aren’t particularly happy with the plan either, with Victoria Podgorna from Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy’s political party saying it was giving Russia “amnesty for launching a brutal war.”Zelenskyy said Friday he had spoken with Starmer and his counterparts in Germany and France, adding that he would also talk to Washington to ensure Kyiv’s “principled stances are taken into account.” “Ukraine may now face a very difficult choice, either losing its dignity or the risk of losing a key partner, either the difficult 28 points, or a very difficult winter,” Zelenskyy said, warning his country of a “very difficult, eventful” week ahead.Grand-parents of 7-years-old Polish citizen Amelia Grzesko, killed with her mother Oksana in a missile attack on November 19, mourn during their funeral ceremony in Ternopil, on Nov. 22, 2025.Yurko Dyachyshyn / AFP – Getty ImagesHis warning also came as Ukraine suffers setbacks on the battlefield and Zelenskyy tries to contain the fallout of a $100 million corruption scandal implicating his top officials.On Saturday, the Russian defense ministry said it had captured two additional villages in eastern Ukraine, one in the Donetsk and another in Zaporizhzhia. Russia’s gains, both on the battlefield and in the proposed plan, have drawn a positive response from the Kremlin, where Putin has said it could “form the basis of a final peace settlement,” though adding it was not “substantively” discussed with Russia.Meanwhile, two people were killed in Russia’s southern city of Syzran in a Ukrainian strike on energy facilities, the regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said Saturday on Russia’s state-backed Max messenger app.Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
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