Britain’s head of state King Charles III turns 76 on Thursday, still in the grip of cancer treatment but with his passion for work undimmed by what his son and heir Prince William called a “brutal” year.Charles paused royal duties in February after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed cancer. Two and a half months …
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Burnt-out love-seekers are shunning dating apps in their millions, but the apps are trying to woo them back with a counter offer: If you don’t want a lover, perhaps you just need a friend? The giants of the industry — Bumble and Match, which owns Tinder — have both created apps catering to friendly meetups, joining …
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US president-elect Donald Trump’s expected climate rollbacks will likely have a “small” impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, new research found Thursday.Trump, who will return to the White House in January, has pledged to reverse the green policies of President Joe Biden and …
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Scientists say they have found the world’s largest coral near the Pacific’s Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major discovery “pulsing with life and colour”. The coral is so immense that researchers sailing the crystal waters of the Solomon archipelago initially thought they had stumbled across a hulking shipwreck. “Just when we think there is nothing left to …
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Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel’s repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the “war crime of forcible transfer”, and to “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the Palestinian territory.”Human Rights Watch has amassed evidence that Israeli officials are… committing the war crime of forcible transfer,” the report said.”Israel’s actions appear …
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Nine-hour prayer sessions, live-streamed speaking in tongues, bowing before a Buddhist altar 108 times: South Korean parents are turning to God as students sit a crucial exam Thursday.The “Suneung” university entrance exam is a major event in the education-obsessed South, and officials take extreme measures, from rescheduling flights to pausing construction, to ensure students can …
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Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party expected to secure a mandate to drive through economic reforms.The 55-year-old hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature’s 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after the country’s economic meltdown two years ago, when then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was …
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Donald Trump’s cabinet of China hawks have likened the nation’s communist rulers to Nazis, levelled Covid conspiracies at them, declared a Cold War, and flagged much greater military support for Taiwan.That is likely to leave Beijing watching warily, experts say, as the United States president-elect surrounds himself with a litany of hardliners who spit strong …
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Donald Trump made a triumphant return to the White House on Wednesday, where outgoing president Joe Biden offered a show of civility to the bitter rival who denied him the same courtesy four years ago.Trump’s visit came as Republicans were declared the majority party in the House of Representatives to give him complete control of …
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A man with explosives died Wednesday trying to enter Brazil’s Supreme Court in what appeared to be a suicide, officials said, days before the country hosts the G20 summit. “This citizen approached the Federal Supreme Court, tried to enter, failed, and the explosion happened at the entrance,” Brasilia governor Celina Leao told reporters, adding that no …
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