G20 leaders gather in Brazil on Monday to discuss fighting poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could yet be upended by Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House.US President Joe Biden will attend his last summit of the world’s leading economies, but as a lame duck whom other leaders are already …
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Filipinos cleared fallen trees and repaired damaged houses on Monday after the sixth major storm to batter the Philippines in a month smashed flimsy buildings, knocked out power and claimed at least one life.The national weather service had warned of a “potentially catastrophic” impact from Man-yi, which was a super typhoon when it hit over …
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In what claims to be the only woman-run cafe in the capital of Indonesia’s most conservative province, owner Qurrata Ayuni says she and her baristas provide an alternative to rowdy, smoke-filled male haunts.The 28-year-old opened Morning Mama last year to create a space that caters to women in Banda Aceh, known as the city of …
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An Indigenous lawmaker was censured by Australia’s parliament Monday for heckling King Charles about the legacy of European settlement during his October visit to Canberra.The censure carries no practical punishment but passed the Senate Monday with 46 votes in favour and 12 against. During the king’s visit to parliament, independent senator Lidia Thorpe screamed: “This is …
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US President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republican Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), calling him a “warrior for Free Speech” in a statement on Sunday.Carr has “fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms” and will “end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling …
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India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes Monday until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the sprawling megacity’s health crisis.Levels of PM2.5 pollutants — dangerous cancer-causing microparticles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs — were recorded at 57 times above the World Health Organization’s recommended daily …
With leaders from the world’s biggest economies converging on Rio de Janeiro for a two-day G20 summit starting Monday, the usually relaxed seaside city is under a tight security blanket.Police and soldiers have been patrolling the streets, thousands of security cameras are set up, and officials declared two days of public holiday so locals can …
Gabon’s military rulers announced their new constitution had been overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, according to provisional results it published Sunday, marking a new chapter for the oil-rich African nation.The estimated 860,000 registered voters faced an onslaught of calls by authorities on TV, radio and social media to make their ballot count — whether they …
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The founder of a failed Singapore oil trading company will be sentenced Monday for cheating banking giant HSBC out of millions of dollars in one of the country’s most serious cases of fraud.Lim Oon Kuin, better known as O.K. Lim, was convicted in May in the case that dented the city-state’s reputation as a top …
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The UN Security Council on Monday will take up a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan, where a war between two rival generals shows no sign of easing.A draft text seen by AFP, prepared by Britain and Sierra Leone, calls on the parties to “immediately cease hostilities and engage, in …
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