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A week after Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, was accused of being a “wrecking ball” jeopardizing global climate talks, Saudi officials are leading an effort to block a United Nations deal to tackle plastic pollution, negotiators said. Delegates from more than 170 nations have been engaged in tense negotiations in Busan, South Korea, … Read more
The move has divided opinion internationally on how to protect children online. Under-16s have been banned from using social media under strict new legislation in Australia. The government says it is to protect children, but Big Tech companies and some human rights groups say it will not work. What are the arguments and the views … Read more
Be it ICC arrest warrants or media criticism, Israel is pushing back hard. Faced with an arrest warrant from the ICC, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and much of the Israeli media – reflexively dismissed the move as anti-Semitic. While the walls appear to be closing in on Netanyahu, he is a survivor. He knows … Read more
A former South Korean Navy SEAL, Dalgeun Yu, has become the talk of the news as he knocked out the notorious American streamer, Johnny Somali. This American streamer has built quite a name for his rude stunts in Asian countries. Yu, who has experience serving on South Korea’s elite Underwater Demolition Team, claimed he wanted … Read more
Thousands of people demonstrated in front of the Parliament building in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for a second day on Friday after the government announced that the country had suspended its bid to join the European Union for four years. The announcement has further deepened the conflict between the country’s opposition, which wants closer ties … Read more
Qatar Investment Authority has announced it will be a ‘long-term investor and partner’ to Audi’s F1 team from 2026. The sovereign wealth fund of Qatar is acquiring a “significant minority stake” in what will become Audi’s Formula 1 works team from 2026, in a deal announced Friday before the Qatar Grand Prix. A joint statement said … Read more
The vote advances the assisted-dying legislation for England and Wales to the next stage of parliamentary scrutiny. British MPs have given initial approval to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. After an impassioned debate, members of the United Kingdom Parliament approved on Friday the so-called assisted dying bill by … Read more
Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to “assert its full sovereignty”. The announcement came just hours after Koulamallah’s French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, met Chad’s President … Read more
Polls show centre-right incumbents Fine Gael and Fianna Fail running neck and neck with leftist-nationalist Sinn Fein. Ireland is going to the polls in a tight election race that has two centre-right coalition parties running neck and neck with the former political wing of a republican parliamentary force. Irish voters began casting their ballots on … Read more
The antitrust watchdog wants Google to sell two ad tech tools and is seeking a penalty as well. Canada’s Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet’s Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog has said. The Competition Bureau, in a statement on Thursday, said it had filed an application with the Competition Tribunal … Read more