Leading lights of the tech industry are meeting in Lisbon on Tuesday for the Web Summit, the sector’s first big event since the US election, with Donald Trump’s victory expected to be a key theme of their discussions.The tech industry is holding its breath to see what Trump’s second term will bring when he takes …
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Dozens of world leaders arrived in Azerbaijan on Tuesday for COP29 but many big names are skipping the UN climate talks where the impact of Donald Trump’s election victory is keenly felt.More than 75 leaders are expected in Baku over two days but the heads of some of the most powerful and polluting economies are …
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A 19th-century play directed by US actor John Malkovich has enraged nationalists in Bulgaria who call it an insult to the country — a claim the Hollywood star rejected as stirred up by the far right.Last week’s premiere of “Arms and the Man” by renowned Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw sparked raucous protests by nationalist …
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In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding mountain roads of Kyrgyzstan.His is a hazardous mission: two such trucks crashed into ravines over the summer.Drivers in this former Soviet Central Asian state are forbidden to stop until they reach their final destination — …
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Climate change is contributing to record numbers of people being uprooted from their homes globally, while worsening the often already “hellish” conditions of displacement, the United Nations said Tuesday.With international climate talks under way in Baku, the UN refugee agency highlighted how soaring global temperatures and extreme weather events are impacting displacement numbers and conditions, …
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Dutch judges will on Tuesday rule on an appeal by oil giant Shell against a landmark judgement binding it to reduce carbon emissions, which climate activists say it has not implemented.The ruling at the Hague Appeals Court comes as governments of some 200 countries gather at the COP29 talks in Azerbaijan to discuss the future …
Fighter jets and attack drones took centre stage as China’s largest air show officially opened on Tuesday, an opportunity for Beijing to showcase its growing military might to potential customers and rivals alike.China has poured resources into modernising and expanding its aviation capabilities as it faces off against the United States and others around regional …
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China’s top diplomat met senior Russian official Sergei Shoigu for security talks in Beijing on Tuesday, as the two powers deepen relations that have triggered protest from the West.Russian state media outlet TASS shared a video of Wang Yi meeting Shoigu on the messaging platform Telegram Tuesday afternoon.Moscow and Beijing have expanded military and defence …
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New Zealand’s prime minister delivered a historic apology Tuesday to victims abused in state care, acknowledging the “unimaginable pain” suffered within children’s homes and psychiatric hospitals. Some 200,000 vulnerable New Zealanders were abused in state care in the seven decades since the 1950s, according to a six-year public inquiry that described its findings as an “unthinkable …
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Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam said Tuesday that his alliance had won a crushing election victory over the governing coalition, after the incumbent prime minister conceded he faced a “huge defeat”.Ramgoolam, a two-time former prime minister, told crowds of jubilant supporters in his constituency that his Alliance of Change had made a clean sweep of …
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