US says ‘deal’ reached with China after trade talks
The US treasury secretary calls the talks "productive", while China's vice premier describes them as "candid".
Kurdish PKK to disband, potentially ending decades of conflict Turkey
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Do Israel’s attacks make a difference to Yemen’s Houthis?
The US and the Houthis have come to a ceasefire agreement, but Israel continues to trade attacks with the Yemeni group.
Climate crisis threatens the banana, the world’s most popular fruit, research shows
Fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disaster
The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found.
Rising temperatures, extreme weather and climate-related pests are pummeling banana-growing countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia, reducing yields and devastating rural communities across the region, according to Christian Aid’s new report, Going Bananas: How Climate Change Threatens the World’s Favourite Fruit.
Continue reading...Modi addresses nation for first time since start of India-Pakistan strikes
His speech comes after a ceasefire was agreed between the two countries following days of intense shelling by both sides.
Trump backs Putin’s proposal for Ukraine talks, undermining allies – The Washington Post
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- Zelensky Agrees to Talks With Russia, After Trump Intervention WSJ
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Australia news live: Anthony Albanese says Tanya Plibersek ‘very positive’ about new role after being shifted from environment portfolio
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Labor’s Tanya Plibersek has avoided comment about her ministerial desires or expectations, offering little other than general remarks when pressed this morning on the issue of the forthcoming cabinet announcement from Anthony Albanese.
Plibersek, who previously held the environment portfolio, told Sunrise this morning that cabinet decisions were “completely a matter for the prime minister” and that she was just “very grateful” to be on the front bench, and to have won the election, and to get to do “a good job for the government and for the people of Australia” again … and, well, you get the idea.
Continue reading...Green party must choose again between election-focused or activist leaders
Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns will be up against Zack Polanski, who is calling for ‘eco-populism’ mass movement
So here we are again. Much as was the case in 2021, the last time the Greens picked their leaders, members have a choice that could be broadly presented as the more sober, election-focused professionals versus insurgent activists.
On one side of the equation are Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, both MPs, and in the case of Ramsay, already a co-leader. Four years ago, he and Carla Denyer saw off Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond with a self-stated mission to change the party and win elections.
Continue reading...Adrian Ramsay to stand for re-election as Greens co-leader with Ellie Chowns
Exclusive: Waveney Valley MP and North Hereforshire MP likely to go up against party’s deputy leader Zack Polanski
Adrian Ramsay is to stand as Greens co-leader with another of the party’s MPs, Ellie Chowns, amid what the duo describe as an unprecedented fracturing of political allegiances that meant it was vital to have leaders in Westminster with a proven record of winning.
Ramsay has already been co-leader for four years, alongside Carla Denyer, who with Ramsay, Chowns and Siân Berry were elected to parliament last year in the party’s greatest electoral triumph.
Continue reading...Hamas to release US-Israeli hostage as part of efforts to reach Gaza ceasefire
Edan Alexander, 21, is believed to be the last living captive with US nationality in Gaza.
Anthony Albanese reveals new cabinet with Tanya Plibersek named as minister for social services
PM has named his new frontbench, including Michelle Rowland as the new attorney-general, after a factional brawl over positions
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Tanya Plibersek has been named the minister for social services as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, revealed his new frontbench after Labor’s emphatic election victory.
The biggest changes in the new cabinet include Michelle Rowland, as the new attorney-general; health minister Mark Butler getting the NDIS added to his portfolio; Amanda Rishworth being named the new employment and workplace relations minister; Anika Wells being promoted to the communications portfolio; and Murray Watt taking on the environment portfolio.
Richard Marles – deputy prime minister, minister for defence
Penny Wong – minister for foreign affairs
Jim Chalmers – treasurer
Katy Gallagher – minister for finance, minister for the public service, minister for women, minister for government services
Don Farrell – minister for trade and tourism, special minister of state
Tony Burke – minister for home affairs, minister for immigration and citizenship, minister for cybersecurity, minister for the arts
Mark Butler – minister for health and ageing, minister for disability and the national disability insurance scheme
Chris Bowen – minister for climate change and energy
Catherine King – minister for infrastructure, transport, regional development and local government
Amanda Rishworth – minister for employment and workplace relations.
Jason Clare – minister for education
Michelle Rowland - attorney general.
Tanya Plibersek – minister for social services.
Julie Collins – minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry
Clare O’Neil – minister for housing, minister for homelessness and minister for cities
Madeleine King – minister for resources, minister for northern Australia
Murray Watt – minister for the environment and water
Malarndirri McCarthy – minister for Indigenous Australians
Anika Wells – minister for communications, minister for sport
Pat Conroy – minister for defence industry, minister for Pacific Island affairs
Anne Aly – minister for small business, minister for international development, minister for multicultural affairs
Tim Ayres – minister for industry and innovation, minister for science
Continue reading...Pope Leo XIV’s message emphasised “building bridges and peace”
“It’s a mission going out from the Church, not in but out, what they call going to the existential peripheries.”
Nurse who treated Joel Cauchi for schizophrenia threw up when told about Bondi Junction stabbings, inquest hears
Health worker describes 40-year-old as ‘compliant’ and ‘diligent’ patient but recalls 2020 phone call and a possible ‘warning sign’ of mental health relapse
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A nurse at the Queensland medical practice where Joel Cauchi was treated for schizophrenia remembers him as a “compliant” and “diligent” patient, telling an inquest she vomited when she learned he had fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre.
Cauchi, 40, killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, 27, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahir, 30, and injured 10 others at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April last year before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.
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Continue reading...Taiwan ex-president Tsai Ing-wen to visit UK as China ratchets up threats against Taipei
Former leader had been due to visit in October but trip was cancelled when it coincided with David Lammy’s trip to Beijing
Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit Britain this week at the invitation of British politicians, a trip that comes as London is trying to improve ties with Beijing and China ramps up efforts to diplomatically isolate the island.
Britain, like most countries, has no official diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but the economic and political exchanges between the two sides have increased as Beijing ratchets up military threats to force Taipei to accept its sovereignty claim over the democratic island.
Continue reading...Burkina Faso forces killed at least 100 civilians in a March attack, Human Rights Watch says – AP News
Pakistan’s stance against “all-out war” should be taken seriously
“These are two nuclear-armed states,so there’s a certain amount of deterrence that’s built into the diplomatic process."
Federal election results: Monique Ryan wins Kooyong while Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian takes Bradfield
Amelia Hamer could only secure small primary vote swing towards Liberals in Kooyong, while Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown holds inner-Brisbane seat of Ryan
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The independent MP Monique Ryan has won Kooyong in Melbourne, holding off her Liberal challenger, but Nicolette Boele, another Climate 200-backed candidate, is expected to fall short on Sydney’s north shore.
The ABC’s election analyst, Antony Green, on Monday projected that Ryan would maintain her slim lead in the Melbourne seat, where she led by about 700 votes with a few thousand left to count.
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Continue reading...Rodrigo Duterte Is Expected to Again Become Mayor of Davao City – The New York Times
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Norway hands over Arctic Council intact after ‘difficult’ term as chair
Ukraine conflict and Trump’s threat to seize Greenland have caused internal tensions within intergovernmental body
Norway is to hand over the leadership of an intergovernmental body comprising countries with territory in the Arctic after what its foreign minister called a “difficult two years”, during which there have been unprecedented tensions within the group’s membership related to Russia’s war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s threat to seize Greenland.
The Arctic Council requires consensus from all eight Arctic states – the US, Russia, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the kingdom of Denmark, which includes Greenland, and Sweden – for all decisions and statements.
Continue reading...Potential role for Chinese firm in key UK windfarm attracts government scrutiny
Exclusive: Decision on whether to work with turbine maker being overseen by ministers after British Steel rescue
Ministers are weighing up proposals for a Chinese company to supply wind turbines for a major offshore windfarm in the North Sea.
The government is in discussions with Green Volt North Sea over whether Mingyang, China’s biggest offshore wind company, should supply the wind turbines. Mingyang has emerged as the preferred manufacturer, but the company has sought advice from ministers on whether to proceed.
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