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Emissions cuts deal OKd at climate talks

DURBAN, South Africa -- Countries from around the globe agreed yesterday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.

A package of accords agreed to after marathon UN talks in South Africa extended the 1997 Kyoto Protocol allowing five more years to complete a wider...

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