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Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese react on Saturday ahead of the family photo at the G20 Leaders' Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese react on Saturday ahead of the family photo at the G20 Leaders' Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.`
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Gibran steps in for Prabowo at G20 summit under US boycott

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka called for fairer global finances, as he stood in for President Prabowo Subianto in South Africa amid growing divisions within the G20 following a United States boycott and the promise of a clean break next year.

8 hours ago
Americas

Meta shut down internal research into mental health effects of Facebook, Instagram

In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.

20 hours ago
Americas

COP30 seals uneasy climate deal that sidesteps fossil fuels

The overnight impasse between the European Union and the Arab Group of nations over fossil fuels had pushed the talks past a Friday deadline, triggering all-night negotiations before a compromise could be reached.

21 hours ago

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Middle East and Africa

G20 host South Africa sees consensus for summit declaration despite US boycott

In opening remarks to the Johannesburg summit, Ramaphosa said: "There's been overwhelming consensus and agreement that one of the other tasks we should undertake right at the beginning is to [...] adopt our declaration."

1 day ago
Europe

'Carbonara sauce' at EU parliament causes stir with Italy

An Italian minister decried the sauce for containing pancetta, a pork product similar to bacon, which is apparently a major culinary faux pas in food-loving Italy.

1 day ago
Europe

Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials

Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024, an increase of 2.1 percent on the previous year, of which nearly 36 percent were victims of rape and sexual assault.

1 day ago
Americas

Major MAGA figure Greene resigns from US Congress

The shock move by Greene was the clearest sign yet of a growing split in MAGA world, still churning over strong Democratic victories in this month's off-year elections.

1 day ago
Europe

Ukraine scrambles to respond to US plan to end war

US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to sign but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pledged to work to ensure any deal would not "betray" Ukraine's interests, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally.

1 day ago
asia-pacific

US clears sale of Javelin anti-tank system, Excalibur projectiles to India

The purchase of US defence equipment is India's first under Washington's foreign military sales programme since ties soured in August after President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent as punishment for New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil. 

3 days ago
asia-pacific

South Korea arrests crew members for negligence after ferry runs aground

The two were at the helm of the vessel and are suspected of waiting too long to override the autopilot, allowing the ship to run into an uninhabited island in a busy passage approaching the southwestern port of Mokpo, the coast guard officers said.

3 days ago
asia-pacific

South Korea ferry runs aground after officer distracted by phone: coast guard

All 267 passengers and crew were safely brought to a nearby port after the ferry crashed on an uninhabited island off of South Korea's southwestern coast.

3 days ago
asia-pacific

Meta to remove under-16 Australians from Facebook, Instagram on Dec. 4

From December 10, Australia will force social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, to remove users under the age of 16 or face hefty fines.

3 days ago
asia-pacific

China to suspend imports of Japanese seafood amid diplomatic dispute

Beijing earlier this year partially eased restrictions on Japanese seafood imports imposed in the wake of Tokyo's decision to release treated wastewater from its the crippled Fukushima power plant into the sea in 2023.

4 days ago
americas

Major MAGA figure Greene resigns from US Congress

The shock move by Greene was the clearest sign yet of a growing split in MAGA world, still churning over strong Democratic victories in this month's off-year elections.

1 day ago
americas

Trump lavishes praise on New York's mayor-elect Mamdani at warm White House meeting

The men, two different generations of New Yorkers, announced nothing new on policy except what seemed to be the launch of an unexpected, politics-shifting professional friendship.

1 day ago
americas

UN climate summit pushes into overtime as nations clash over fossil fuels

After nearly two weeks of negotiations in the Amazonian city of Belem, a new draft agreement unveiled by COP30 host Brazil made no mention of "fossil fuels" or the word "roadmap" that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had himself publicly supported.

1 day ago
americas

Larry Summers leaving positions at Harvard and OpenAI after Epstein emails

Summers announced he was resigning from the board of OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, and a spokesman later said he would discontinue teaching roles at Harvard and go on leave as a director of a business and government school while Harvard conducts a review of people named in the Epstein files.

3 days ago
americas

US Congress approves release of Epstein files, putting matter before Trump

The Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition.

4 days ago
americas

Trump says Saudi prince 'knew nothing' about journalist's murder

US President Donald Trump fiercely defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, insisting the kingdom's de facto ruler "knew nothing" about the murder as he wooed him at the White House.

4 days ago
americas

Trump says US may open talks with Maduro

It was one of the first signs of a possible path toward defusing an increasingly tense situation in the region as the US wages a campaign of deadly strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

6 days ago
europe

Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in trials

Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024, an increase of 2.1 percent on the previous year, of which nearly 36 percent were victims of rape and sexual assault.

1 day ago
europe

Ukraine scrambles to respond to US plan to end war

US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to sign but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pledged to work to ensure any deal would not "betray" Ukraine's interests, acknowledging he risked losing Washington as an ally.

1 day ago
europe

Pope hosts Hollywood stars at Vatican, laments decline in movie-going

Box office revenues in many countries remain well below the levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiplexes in the United States and Canada just suffering their worst summer since 1981, excluding the COVID-19 shutdown.

1 week ago
europe

EU bows to pressure on loosening AI, privacy rules

Part of a bid to slash red tape for European businesses struggling against United States and Chinese rivals, the move is drawing accusations that Brussels is putting competitiveness ahead of citizens' privacy and protection.

1 week ago
europe

Hitler likely had genetic condition limiting sexual development: research

The new research also quashes the suggestion that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.

1 week ago
europe

World's fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: Study

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius would now be essentially "impossible".

1 week ago
middle-east-africa

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions

The report describes soldiers storming homes, ransacking property and ordering families out via loudspeakers mounted on drones.

3 days ago
middle-east-africa

Behind Trump defense of MBS, a deeper US shift on human rights

Trump's remarks, which contradicted US intelligence findings, threw into stark relief just how far his administration has shifted away from the traditional US support for human rights globally.

3 days ago
middle-east-africa

Trump defends Saudi prince over murder of journalist

Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a US resident, was "extremely controversial," Trump said, while welcoming the Saudi heir to the throne in the White House.

4 days ago
middle-east-africa

Indonesia welcomes UN Security Council's adoption of Trump's Gaza plan

On Monday, The UN Security Council voted in favor of a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan that includes the deployment of an international force and a path to a future Palestinian state.

5 days ago
middle-east-africa

Trump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia

"We will be doing that. We will be selling F-35s," Trump told reporters when asked if Washington would agree to sell Riyadh the jets at Tuesday's meeting. "They've been a great ally," he added.

5 days ago

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