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Booming Indigenous Maori “haka” chants rang out across New Zealand’s capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation’s founding treaty. More than 35,000 demonstrators poured into the harbourside city of Wellington, police said, shutting down busy streets as their spirited procession inched its way towards parliament.Bare-chested men draped …

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G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more, at a forum that highlighted differences between world powers but also delivered some successes.Here are five key takeaways from the summit: – No climate breakthrough – Hopes were high that G20 leaders would jumpstart …

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The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers discussed tensions on the Korean peninsula during a meeting at the G20 summit in Brazil on Monday, according to Beijing’s state media.China and Russia have drawn closer since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with Western countries accusing Beijing of providing tacit support for its partner’s war of aggression.Beijing …

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Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. The Australian Institute of Marine Science said surveys of 12 reefs found up to 72 percent coral mortality, thanks to a summer of mass bleaching, two …

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On a mountain slope in south Lebanon, agricultural worker Assaad al-Taqi is busy picking olives, undeterred by the roar of Israeli warplanes overhead.This year, he is collecting the harvest against the backdrop of the raging Israel-Hezbollah war.He works in the village of Kfeir, just a few kilometres (miles) from where Israeli bombardment has devastated much …

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s natural resources minister in Pyongyang, state media said Tuesday, as visiting delegations from Moscow highlighted deepening ties amid the Ukraine war.Kim met Monday with Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov, who is leading a delegation focused on “cooperation in trade, economy, science and …

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Malaga moved Monday to ban new short-term apartment rentals to tourists in 43 neighbourhoods of the southern Spanish city, the latest move in the country to limit holiday flats.Under new rules approved by the Mediterranean city’s planning commission, no new holiday apartments will be permitted in target neighbourhoods where more than 8.0 percent of all …

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Japan and Britain have agreed to hold regular high-level talks on economic security, Tokyo said Tuesday after the two countries’ leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit.The move comes ahead of the second White House stint for Donald Trump, who has promised to levy massive tariffs on China and to raise import duties …

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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, …

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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 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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