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First white South Africans arrive in US as Trump claims they face discrimination

The Trump administration welcomed on Monday 59 white South Africans it granted refugee status in the US, having deemed them victims of racial discrimination, while drawing criticism from Democrats and stirring confusion in South Africa.

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Trump hails Air Force One 'gift' after Qatari luxury jet reports

Donald Trump on Sunday defended plans to receive a new Air Force One as a gift, after reports he will accept a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar despite strict rules on presents for US presidents. ...

1 day ago
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At his former US university, the new pope is just 'Bob'

In the verdant suburb of Philadelphia, locals, professors and students reveled as Cardinal Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV on Thursday. ...

2 days ago

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Canada links India to slaying of Sikh exile, expels intel chief

The accusations, which India rejected as "absurd," sent already sour relations between Ottawa and New Delhi to a dramatic new low.

1 year ago
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Biden says ‘I get it’ on age issue

The 80-year-old usually avoids the age issue but addressed it during a fundraiser at a Broadway theatre in New York, saying his experience helped him deal with crises like Ukraine and Covid.

1 year ago
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Much at stake in advancing global goals as Indonesia kicks off UNGA week

Indonesian delegates on Tuesday dove into this week’s whirlwind of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings, where world representatives will discuss the state of the world and mull over cooperation agreements.

1 year ago
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Indonesia urges more development cooperation in Global South at G77 summit

Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi called on the grouping of developing countries to increase cooperation and push for its right to development, including technological advancements, at the recently concluded G77 summit on science and technology.

1 year ago
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At least 39 dead as cyclone hits Brazil's southernmost state

Heavy rains caused by the extratropical cyclone have affected 80 cities and left more than 2,300 people homeless and over 3,900 displaced.

1 year ago
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Biden bars drilling over vast swath of Alaska

The move comes a little over a year before the 2024 election, as Biden seeks to shore up his green credentials that were damaged by a decision earlier this year to greenlight a project by US energy giant ConocoPhillips in the same area. 

1 year ago
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Biden to wear mask after first lady tests COVID positive

The president, 80, also tested negative during a check-up on Monday and is "not experiencing any symptoms," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

1 year ago
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Meta, Google balk as Canada spells out new online news law

The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a flight of advertising dollars and hundreds of publications closed in the last decade.

1 year ago
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US sees wake-up call, if not threat, as BRICS bloc expands

As the BRICS leaders met in Johannesburg, President Joe Biden's administration renewed promises to step up funding for the developing world through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

1 year ago
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Meta faces backlash over Canada news block as wildfires rage

The situation "is dangerous," said Kelsey Worth, 35, one of nearly 20,000 residents of Yellowknife and thousands more in small towns ordered to evacuate the Northwest Territories as wildfires advanced.

1 year ago
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Indonesia’s nuclear agency unfazed by Fukushima wastewater release

Indonesia's Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) sticks to reports from United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and data from plat's operator that the released wastewater is relatively safe for the environment.

1 year ago
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Trump's jailhouse mug shot makes history

But the mug shot released by Georgia authorities on Thursday, showing a scowling Trump just minutes after he was booked on more than a dozen felony counts at an Atlanta jail, may become the most famous of all, shared around the world by both detractors and supporters.

1 year ago
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Trump's mug shot released after booking at Georgia jail on election charges

Trump spent only about 20 minutes at the jail before heading back to his New Jersey golf club. Before boarding his private plane at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, he repeated his claim that the prosecution is politically motivated.

1 year ago
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Trump to be booked at infamous Atlanta jail

When Donald Trump surrenders on Thursday to face charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election he is expected to do so at an Atlanta jail where conditions are so notorious they are under investigation by the Justice Department.

1 year ago
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'We're all tired': Thousands of evacuees arrive in southern Canada

Calgary's airport in the neighboring province of Alberta has become a reception center for the evacuees, in a massive operation without precedent in the region.

1 year ago
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Biden says still expects to meet Xi later this year

Biden is inviting Xi in November to San Francisco when the United States holds a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which includes China.

1 year ago
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At Camp David, US, South Korea and Japan condemn China, agree to deepen military ties

The leaders' language on China stood out as stronger than expected, and is likely to provoke a response from Beijing, which is a vital trading partner for both South Korea and Japan.

1 year ago
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Biden to ramp up three-way Japan, S.Korea ties in sign to China

The summit at the Camp David in the mountains west of Washington would have been unimaginable until recently, with the two treaty-bound US allies at loggerheads for decades over the legacy of Japan's harsh 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.

1 year ago
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President Biden congratulates Indonesia on 78 years of independence

The US president has sent a statement congratulating Indonesia on the occasion of its 78th Independence Day that also praised the relationship between the two countries.

1 year ago
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Trump, advisers charged in Georgia for 2020 election overthrow scheme

The charges, brought late on Monday by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, add to the legal woes facing Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.

1 year ago
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'It's gone': Stunned residents find nothing but ashes in Hawaii wildfire town

The 12,000-strong town, which has stood on the island of Maui for hundreds of years, was once the proud home of the Hawaiian royal family.

1 year ago
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US to invest $1.2 bn in plants to pull carbon from air

The two projects, in Texas and Louisiana, each aim to eliminate one million tons of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent in total to the annual emissions of 445,000 gas-powered cars.

1 year ago
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FTX's Bankman-Fried headed for jail over alleged witness tampering

Sam Bankman-Fried is heading to jail after a US judge on Friday revoked his bail, finding probable cause that the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange tampered with witnesses at least twice.

1 year ago
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Maui wildfire death toll hits 67 as questions raised over warnings

The fires became the deadliest natural disaster in the state's history, surpassing that of a tsunami that killed 61 people on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1960, a year after Hawaii joined the United States.

1 year ago
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Hawaii fire death toll hits 53, expected to rise higher

The flames moved so quickly that many were caught off-guard, trapped in the streets or jumping into the ocean in a desperate bid to escape.

1 year ago
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Assassination of presidential candidate shocks Ecuador election

The murder prompted anger from Fernando Villavicencio supporters towards former President Rafael Correa, of whom Villavicencio was an outspoken detractor when he worked as a journalist.

1 year ago
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Trump pleads not guilty of plotting to overturn election loss

It was the third time Trump has pleaded not guilty since April, with months of pretrial legal wrangling expected against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential campaign, in which Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden.

1 year ago
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Canada PM Trudeau and wife Sophie separate after 18 years of marriage

The couple had talked frankly in the past about difficulties in their relationship and in recent years were seen less often together in public.

1 year ago
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South America sweats under high temps in the middle of winter

On Tuesday, the mountain town of Vicuna in central Chile hit 37 degrees Celsius (almost 99 degrees Fahrenheit).

1 year ago
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Meta starts blocking news in Canada

Google, another critic of the Online News Act, has said it is considering a similar move, among an ongoing global debate as more governments try to make tech firms pay for news content.

1 year ago
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