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Indonesian diplomats help keep multilateral diplomacy moving in UN

An assignment to the office of United Nations General Assembly’s president may help the holder of the forum’s presiding office to reflect a range of views among the body’s member states, including those of the Global South.

2 days ago
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On the campaign trail, JB Pritzker courts farmers like he's running for president

Illinois pursued trade ties with Indonesia, Japan and Mexico to cushion lost export markets ...

5 days ago
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Trump's new press secretary out after less than week

Zacharia took over the role from the combative Karoline Leavitt, who helped Trump reshape White House coverage by bringing in more friendly outlets and fiercely attacking critical media. ...

6 days 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. 

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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.

3 years 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).

3 years 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.

3 years ago
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McConnell, Biden lapses highlight advanced age of US leaders

Joe Biden, 80, is the oldest US president to ever serve in the White House, and nearly two decades older than the median age of the world's national leaders, 62, Pew Research found. 

3 years ago
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Lula government restricts gun ownership in Brazil

Under Bolsonaro, private gun ownership nearly tripled as he loosened controls in a nod to his "Bibles, bullets and beef" support base.

3 years ago
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Colombian kids rescued after 40 days in jungle leave hospital

Four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Colombian Amazon have been released from a military hospital after a monthlong stay.

3 years ago
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NTSB probes Boeing 737 MAX engine fire at Newark Airport

The NTSB said a fire warning light indicator came on after United Airlines Flight 2376 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida landed at Newark on June 28, prompting the crew to shut down one of the engines. 

3 years ago
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Football pitch of tropical forest lost every 5 seconds

That is nearly a football pitch of mature tropical trees felled or burned every five seconds, night and day, and 10 percent more than the year before, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI).

3 years ago
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