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FCC reviewing Disney's ABC station licenses after Jimmy Kimmel joke

The standoff between President Donald Trump's administration and the global entertainment conglomerate is the first crisis facing Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro.

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'Get down!' Panic and chaos at Washington's glitzy media gala

Trump was seated on the stage at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, the first time he attended as president, when loud bangs disrupted the revelry and caused him and others to look up in alarm. ...

4 days ago
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Crunch nuclear proliferation meeting at UN amid raging global wars

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), signed by almost all the countries on the planet, with notable exceptions like Israel, India, and Pakistan, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to promote complete disarmament, and to encourage cooperation on civilian nuclear projects. ...

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Donald Trump found liable for fraud in New York civil case

The judge described how Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and other defendants made up valuations and inflated Trump's net worth to suit their business needs.

2 years ago
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US experts carry out second pig-to-human heart transplant

Transplanting animal organs into humans, called xenotransplantation, could offer a solution to the chronic shortage of human organ donations. More than 100,000 Americans are currently on waiting lists for organ transplants.

2 years ago
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Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $230 million in latest US opioid settlements

The settlements, which require a judge's approval, were disclosed in papers filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco. The money is on top of $641.5 million that McKinsey already paid to resolve claims by state attorneys-general.

2 years ago
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Cough syrup deaths overseas prompts US crackdown on toxic testing

The Food and Drug Administration has reprimanded at least 28 companies this year, saying they failed to prove sufficient testing of ingredients used in over-the-counter drugs and consumer products for the toxins ethylene glycol (EG) and diethylene glycol (DEG), according to a Reuters analysis of agency import alerts and warning letters to manufacturers. 

2 years ago
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Biden makes new pledges to Pacific island leaders as China's influence grows

Before welcoming the island leaders, gathered under the umbrella of the 18-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Biden announced US diplomatic recognition of two more Pacific islands nations, the Cook Islands and Niue.

2 years ago
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Lachlan Murdoch, the choice of continuity

Lachlan is already president of Fox Corporation, parent company of the Fox News cable television channel, and was long the favorite against his brother James to succeed the family patriarch.

2 years ago
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Indonesia pitches ‘Bandung Spirit’ strategy amid ‘strategic crossroads’

“We are again at a strategic crossroads, as in 1955,” Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday, as New York City in the United States began to wind down after the week-long clamor of world leaders debating the war in Ukraine, the debt crisis and the current shortcomings of multilateralism.

2 years ago
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Retno warns UNGA of potential uncertainties, conflicts from rising sea levels

Indonesia's top diplomat has cautioned delegates at the ongoing 78th UNGA that the world should prepare to anticipate potential geopolitical uncertainties and conflicts related to global sea level rise.

2 years ago
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Brazil top court rejects time limit on Indigenous land claims

The court said 9 of its 11 justices rejected the deadline because it countered constitutional guarantees on Indigenous rights to ancestral lands.

2 years ago
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Indonesia reiterates call to reform global financial system

The Indonesian delegation at this week's UNGA has been pushing for improved global balance and equity between developing and developed nations, and urged reform of the international financial architecture at a high-level dialogue on development financing on Wednesday.

2 years ago
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Canada's Trudeau wants India to cooperate in murder probe, declines to release evidence

Trudeau said that Ottawa had credible allegations linking Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, prompting an angry reaction from New Delhi. Nijjar, 45, was a Canadian citizen.

2 years ago
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Indonesia seeks to strengthen fragmented Global South in weeklong UNGA

Indonesian diplomats at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have undertaken the mission of strengthening the voice of the Global South, an informal grouping Jakarta believes to be increasingly injured by the current world order, as divisions among nations continue to deepen.

2 years ago
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Indonesia advances OECD membership bid on sidelines of UNGA

Indonesia advanced its bid for membership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), holding bilateral talks with a number of its members at the United Nations in New York, the United States, on Tuesday, in the hope of winning over the consensus needed for admission.

2 years ago
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US House panel sets first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing

The House Oversight Committee, led by Republican Representative James Comer, said it will explore constitutional and legal questions at the hearing, and also intends to subpoena personal and business bank records of Hunter Biden, the president's son, and James Biden, the president's brother.

2 years ago
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Indonesia pushes for downstreaming, Global South rights at UN SDGs summit

With much of its long-term development plan hindered by international trade laws, the current global order has been labeled “unfit” by Indonesian delegates at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, who also urged for the end of “discriminatory” trade policies.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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. 

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years 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.

2 years ago
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