COP29 produces streamlined climate finance draft, but key issues remain
After an all-nighter, a draft text on the new climate finance package for the developing world finally dropped Thursday morning — shrunk from 25 pages to 10, but the major sticking points remain. With less than two days left for the UN climate conference to close, negotiators face a gargantuan...
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Aus tourist dies after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos, raising toll to four
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu
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Israel-Hamas war death toll passes 44k
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UK farmers descend on Parliament to protest tax
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US envoy pushes for truce in Lebanon
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Pakistan bans public gatherings ahead of protest by Imran’s party
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Thousands crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Maori rights
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Several students hurt by vehicle outside school in China
Numerous children were injured by a vehicle outside an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province on Tuesday, reports said. Hours after the incident, the casualty count was unclear and authorities had yet to clarify if it was an accident or a deliberate attack. The incident follows a series of...
Brazilian police arrest five officers over alleged coup plot, plans to kill President Lula, others
Brazilian police arrested five officers accused over a coup plot that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, authorities said. According to the investigation, the coup plotters also planned to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre...
Putin signs doctrine that lowers threshold for using N-weapons
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. Putin’s endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day...
45 pro-democracy activists sentenced in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case
Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. They were prosecuted under the 2020 national security law for their roles in an unofficial primary election. Prosecutors said their...
Sir Lanka President opts for smaller Cabinet with fresh faces
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka on Monday appointed a 21-member Cabinet in the new NPP government, keeping with his pre-election promise to streamline the governance system and ease the burden on taxpayers. The National People’s Power (NPP) has been advocating a smaller government to reduce costs for the public. Since...
US, Philippines sign pact to secure shared military intelligence, weapons technology
The United States and the Philippines signed an agreement on Monday to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the US would provide to Manila. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart, Gilberto Teodoro, signed the legally binding General Security of Military Information Agreement...
Finish probe against Sheikh Hasina by next month, investigators told
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday told investigators they have one month to complete their work on ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her close aides who face charges of crimes against humanity after hundreds of people were killed in a mass uprising this summer. Golam Mortuza Majumdar, the...
