Top 10 world news: Putin says Russia has 'nothing to do' with Belarus-Poland border crisis and more

President VladimirPutinsaid on Saturday that Russia has "nothingto do" with the migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border.The latest draft in the COP26 summit has urged countries to curb their use of coal and act faster against climate change.

"Everybody is trying to make us responsible for something at every given opportunity," theRussian presidentlamented.

The latest draft is trying to balance the demands of climate-vulnerable nations, big industrial powers, and those whose consumption or exports of fossil fuels are vital to their economic development.

"I think we have to be careful that people don't end up allowing the bellicose nature of some of our politics to end up in a position where escalation leads to miscalculation," he said in an interview.

Poland and other EU member states say Belarus is encouraging the migrants to cross the border into the EU in revenge for sanctions slapped on Minsk over human rights abuses, a charge President Alexander Lukashenko's government denies.

An attorney for one of the three defendants in the murder trial of AhmaudArbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger, objected to "more black pastors coming in here" into the courtroom, after leading civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton, was seen seated with the victim's family earlier in the court proceedings.

Europe is once again becoming the epicentre of a fresh COVID-19 outbreak, with some countries looking to impose lockdowns till Christmas and New Year as cases continue to rise.

China has been lobbying US businessmen, executives and companies to fight against China-specific bills in the US Congress.

Entrepreneur Glen de Vries, 49, who had taken theBlue Originspace flight with Star Trek legend William Shatner last month died in a plane crash in New Jersey.

To counter China, Vietnam is increasing its dependency on India. The two countries had conducted a two-day passex drill in the South China Sea amid high tensions with Beijing.

The climate change is real and has been affecting even the wildest parts of the Amazon untouched by humanity, said a study.