Host Azerbaijan tried to bring down the diplomatic temperature in Baku on Thursday after a French minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate talks and Argentina withdrew its delegation.While negotiators work behind closed doors at the COP29 talks to thrash out a climate finance deal, the spotlight has been largely stolen by diplomatic turmoil.France’s …
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Authorities in Brazil on Thursday were searching for the motive of a man who apparently tried to bomb the Supreme Court, killing himself in the process.The Wednesday night attack comes just days before a G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to Brasilia, the capital where the bombing took …
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Britain’s head of state King Charles III turned 76 on Thursday, after a torrid year in which both he and his daughter-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales, have battled cancer.Ceremonial gunfire rang out across the British capital to mark the occasion after Charles spent the morning visiting a surplus food distribution centre in south London.His wife, …
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The European Parliament on Thursday approved a one-year delay on implementing the bloc’s sweeping anti-deforestation rules but also voted to loosen some requirements — raising fresh uncertainty over the landmark law.The move triggered an outcry from environmental groups, which accused lawmakers of adding loopholes to a bill hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight …
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Israel face France in a Nations League football match in Paris on Thursday surrounded by a huge security operation to prevent a repetition of the attacks on Israeli fans in Amsterdam last week.The Paris police chief has described the match at the Stade de France as “high risk” and Israel has urged its citizens to avoid …
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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Iran will not negotiate under “intimidation” as he held crunch talks with the UN nuclear chief weeks before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said achieving “results” in nuclear talks with Iran was vital to avoid a new conflict in the region …
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Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, accusing the country of “using starvation as a method of war”.The United Nations Special Committee pointed to “mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians”, in a fresh report covering the period from Hamas’s deadly October …
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Spain’s traumatised Valencia region woke up unscathed after an overnight rain alert on Thursday, two weeks after the country’s deadliest floods in decades killed more than 200 people there.National weather agency AEMET downgraded the highest red warning for rain for the eastern Valencia coast after a new storm made landfall without causing victims.”It was a …
A man carrying explosives died in a blast as he attempted to attack Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, police said, days before the country hosts the G20 summit.  Brasilia vice governor Celina Leao said preliminary information suggested it was a “suicide”, and came seconds after an explosion in a nearby car that the man was seen …
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A debate over the soul of football is raging in World Cup holders Argentina, pitting defenders of the social role of the beautiful game against the government of libertarian President Javier Milei, who wants to turn clubs into for-profit companies.Argentina, which gave the world Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, is home to some of the …
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