Negotiators toiled Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after G20 leaders acknowledged the need for trillions of dollars for poorer nations but left key sticking points unresolved.With three days left in the COP29 conference, ministers haggling in Azerbaijan had been waiting for the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro to issue a …
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Brazilian police said they arrested four soldiers on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a 2022 “coup.”The four “were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders’ meeting,” a federal police source told AFP, adding that a police officer was …
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The escalating war in Ukraine and stalled UN climate negotiations dominated the final day of a G20 summit in Brazil on Tuesday, held in the shadow of Donald Trump’s looming US presidency.Chinese President Xi Jinping — the most powerful leader at the summit — repeated his warning of turbulent times ahead, warning his French counterpart …
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Ukraine said Tuesday it had fired US-supplied long-range missiles into Russian territory in the first such strike, as Russia declared a “new phase” in the conflict and eased its protocol for nuclear strikes.A senior official told AFP that a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region earlier on Tuesday “was carried out by ATACMS missiles” — a …
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French President Emmanuel Macron told China’s leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday that he shared the desire to see “durable peace” in Ukraine — a topic discussed at a G20 summit both are attending in Rio.Macron, making the comments at the start of their bilateral meeting on the summit sidelines, insisted France and China had a …
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Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested four soldiers guarding the G20 summit over an alleged plot to assassinate then President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a 2022 “coup,” a federal police source told AFP.The four “were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders’ meeting,” said the source, …
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Russia said Tuesday that Ukraine had fired US-supplied long-range missiles into its territory for the first time since Washington authorised such strikes as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat on the 1,000th day of the war.With neither side showing any sign of relenting, Putin signed a decree broadening the justification for Moscow’s use of …
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Thousands of NATO soldiers are taking part in large-scale artillery exercises in Finland’s Arctic this month, seen by some as a signal to neighbouring Russia over its war on Ukraine.Sounds of cannon fire and rocket artillery echo across the snowy, hilly Lapland landscape as some 3,600 soldiers from the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, …
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Violence in India’s northeastern state of Manipur surged this month, the latest clashes in a bitter 18-month-long conflict between ethnic forces that has killed at least 200 people.Fighting since May 2023 has fractured the state of nearly three million people between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki community.Conflict in the state …
Norwegian police said Tuesday that the 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit had been arrested on suspicion of rape.Police said that Marius Borg Hoiby, who was born from a relationship prior to Mette-Marit’s 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, had been arrested Monday evening.”What police can say about the rape is that it concerns …
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