SAN JOSE( Reuters)-Former Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres and conservative contender Fabricio Alvarado led a preliminary partial tally of votes in Sunday's presidential election, figures published by the electoral tribunal showed.No candidate is expected to win the more than 40% of votes needed to avoid a run-off, but if the initial trend in the vote count holds, Figueres and Alvarado could face off in a second round in early April to decide the presidency.( Reporting by Alvaro Murillo

GLASGOW, Scotland--Christiana Figueres knows how to hammer out a climate deal, and she doesn’t expect the United Nations conference that just started in Glasgow to end with the kind of big moment she engineered in Paris six years ago.... But she remains optimistic, saying failure “ is not going to happen here.” Figueres, the former executive secretary of the U.N.'s climate change program, was a key architect behind the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement.... Two hours earlier, Figueres paint

Figueres is the candidate for the National Liberation Party. There are 25 presidential candidates running and if none of them captures at least 40% of the vote, a runoff will be held April 3 between the top two vote-getters.... Figueres was trailed by Rodrigo Chávez of Social Democratic Progress with 16.6%, Fabricio Alvarado, who lost to President Carlos Alvarado four years ago, with 16% for his New Republic party, and former vice president Lineth Saborio for Christian Social Unity with 13%....

GLASGOW, Scotland--It’s time for more than 130 world leaders to feel the heat. They will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming.... That’s a big problem because their voices relay urgency, Figueres said.In addition, the heads of several major emerging economies beyond China are also skipping the summit, including those from Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and S

In the unsuccessful 2009 Copenhagen meeting the leaders swooped in at the end. Thousands lined up in a chilly wind in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday to get through a bottleneck at the entrance to the venue.... That’s a big problem because their voices relay urgency, Figueres said.In addition, the heads of several major emerging economies beyond China are also skipping the summit, including those from Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa.... That leaves India’s Modi the only

William has surrounded himself with specialists when coming up with his Prize project for green inventors and community leaders.... On top of Sir David Attenborough, UN diplomat Christiana Figueres, or environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, among others, the Duke of Cambridge called in Japanese astronaut and engineer Naoko Yamazaki. The second Japanese woman to fly in space in 2010, Ms Yamazaki, 50, was invited to take part in the Earthshot Prize Council and select the contenders for th

The two leading contenders will face each other in a run-off on April 3.... " My business has dropped due to the bad governments we have had," Morales said.... " Before, people used to rally to support political parties." The ruling center-left Citizen Action( PAC) party, which has been in power for two terms, received less than 1% of support in the Center for Research and Political Studies poll....

SAN JOSE( Reuters)-A former president of Costa Rica leads the Central American country's presidential race, but he has only modest support and many voters are undecided about which candidate to choose, an opinion poll for the Feb.... 6 contest showed on Wednesday. Among the 63% of respondents planning to vote, 48% have not yet picked a candidate to replace President Carlos Alvarado, the Oct....

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, right, greet Namibia's President Hage Geingob during arrivals at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov.... From U.S. President Joe Biden to Seychelles President Wavel John Charles Ramkalawan, they are expected to say how their nation will do its utmost, challenge colleagues to do more and generally turn up the rhetoric.... " Humanity has long since run down the clock on clima

6 elections. The 60-year-old Ramos obtained 48% of the 16, 500 votes in an open convention on Aug.... 22, the results of which were announced on Monday night.... He opposed the current administration's austerity drive to comply with a financial package by the International Monetary Fund but supported the ratification of the IMF deal in July....