G20 leaders failed on Monday to break a deadlock in UN climate talks at a summit in Rio that was dominated by divergences over the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House.Ahead of the meeting, the UN had implored the leaders of the world’s richest economies to rescue stalled climate …
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has been an ever-present sidekick for President-elect Donald Trump since the US election at the start of the month.”I can’t get him out of here,” Trump joked about Musk at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Thursday. “I like having him here as well. He’s done a fantastic job, …
Hong Kong’s largest national security trial will draw to a close on Tuesday, with dozens of the city’s most prominent democracy campaigners set to be sentenced for subversion, a charge that can carry up to life imprisonment.Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the financial hub in 2020, snuffing out months of massive, sometimes …
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Monday the world faces “turbulence,” as G20 leaders met in Brazil two months before Donald Trump returns to the White House.US President Joe Biden was attending his last summit of the world’s leading economies, but as a lame duck eclipsed by Xi who has cast himself as a protector of the …
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Booming Indigenous Maori “haka” chants rang out across New Zealand’s capital on Tuesday, as thousands rallied against a conservative proposal accused of stoking racial divisions. An estimated 15,000 demonstrators poured into Wellington from all corners of the country, shutting down busy streets on the final stages of their “hikoi” protest march towards parliament.Bare-chested men wearing traditional …
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Israel bombed central Beirut again Monday, killing five people a day after previously rare strikes in the same area killed 10, and as rocket fire from Lebanon killed one and injured others in Israel.For weeks Israeli air strikes have pounded the now largely emptied southern Beirut stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, but raids on the city …
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Germany and Finland launched a probe Monday after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed, warning of the threat of “hybrid warfare” amid heightened tensions with Russia.The countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement they were “deeply concerned” by the cutting of the communications link through the Baltic Sea, where tensions have increased …
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Hong Kong’s largest national security trial will draw to a close on Tuesday, with dozens of the city’s most prominent democracy campaigners set to be sentenced for subversion, a charge which can carry up to life imprisonment.Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the financial hub in 2020, snuffing out months of massive, sometimes …
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The Kremlin accused US President Joe Biden on Monday of escalating the war in Ukraine, promising to respond to his decision to allow Kyiv to use long-range missiles supplied by Washington to strike targets inside Russia.Biden, who in January hands over the White House to Donald Trump, a sceptic of US support for Ukraine, urged …
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Dozens of suspects went on trial in Istanbul Monday over the deaths of at least 10 babies as part of a vast social security fraud scheme in Turkey’s worst health scandal in years. As the trial of the so-called “newborn baby gang” opened, the courtroom on the European side of Istanbul was packed with family members …
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