Mon 18 November 2024: Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe says she has no regrets as Senate expresses disapproval of protest against the monarch. Australia’s Senate has voted to censure Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe after she heckled Britain’s King Charles III during his visit to parliament last month. The vote, led by Australia’s governing Labor Party, was passed with […]
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Mon 18 November 2024: The global food import bill is estimated to increase 2.2% year-on-year to over $2 trillion in 2024, according to the Food Outlook report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday. The higher costs of cocoa, coffee, tea, fruits, and vegetables were cited for the forecast rise in food […]
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Mon 18 November 2024: President Joe Biden‘s administration will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a significant change to Washington’s policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, the sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns. […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: California has reported the first US case of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – that is part of a new outbreak. The state’s department of health, the CDPH, said the new case was from the Clade I strain – different from the Clade II strain that has been in circulation […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: The Ukrainian president said on Friday US President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration could help bring the war with Russia to a faster conclusion, state news agency Ukrinform reported. In an interview with public broadcaster Suspilne, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed Ukraine-US relations and reflected on past conversations with Trump about resolving the conflict, which continues since 2022. […]
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Daughter of the late slain civil rights leader Malcolm X Ilyasah Shabazz. Sat 16 November 2024: The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100-million federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department of allowing his murder to […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held on Friday their first phone conversation since December 2022, and discussed prospects for resolving the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. Initiated by the German side, the discussion included “a detailed and candid exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine,” according to the […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people. New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people marched through the town of Rotorua in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill on […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will work hard to end the Russia-Ukraine war. “We’re going to work on the Middle East, and we’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It’s gotta stop. Russia and Ukraine’s gotta stop,” Trump said at a gala for the […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: An isolationist in a role critical for US-backed wars, Gabbard’s positions on Iran, Russia, Syria and India will be watched. United States President-elect Donald Trump has named Tulsi Gabbard as his director of national intelligence. The Republican Party leader named the former Democratic congresswoman as part of a series of appointments to cabinet and other key […]
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