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 […]
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A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested for allegedly etching letters onto a traditional wooden gate at a Tokyo shrine, police said on Thursday, the latest example of bad behaviour by visitors flooding back to Japan post-pandemic. Steve Hayes, who arrived
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Airlines in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore cancelled flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednesday, after a nearby volcano catapulted an ash tower miles into the sky. Australia’s Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia
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Palau’s president has accused China of flouting the Pacific nation’s maritime borders, raising concerns about research vessels lurking “uninvited” within its waters. “We keep on raising flags and complaining about it, but they keep on sending them,” said President Surangel
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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered a US defence contractor to pay US$42 million in damages to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, their lawyers said. CACI Premier Technology Inc was found liable at the conclusion
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The Philippines issued new weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Toraji. Now a weakened tropical storm, Toraji blew out to sea
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A 76-year-old monk died on Monday after being attacked by a man shouting “I am Jesus Christ” in a monastery in southeastern Spain, the religious order said on Monday. Two others were injured in the rampage on Saturday morning on
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Russia is seeking to woo African countries this weekend at a summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, with President Vladimir Putin promising the continent “total support”. Facing isolation in the West following its full-scale offensive against Ukraine, Moscow
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Mauritius votes on Sunday in a tight election race that has been clouded by a wiretapping scandal in a nation usually touted as one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous democracies. The legislative poll in the Indian Ocean archipelago follows
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Joe Biden will meet US president-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday after the US leader pledged an orderly transfer of power back to the Republican he beat in elections just four years ago. Trump – who never
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