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China tells citizens in Los Angeles to boost personal security

"Chinese citizens in the region (should) strengthen personal security measures, stay away from gatherings, crowded areas, or places with poor public security, and avoid going out at night or travelling alone," the consulate said in a statement.

6 hours ago
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Canadian PM Carney invites Prabowo to G7 summit

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited President Prabowo Subianto to the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit in mid-June. ...

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Political divide widens as Trump deploys National Guard to Los Angeles

"Important to remember that Trump isn't trying to heal or keep the peace. He is looking to inflame and divide," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said in one of the most direct rebukes.  ...

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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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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.

1 year 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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