A years-long standoff over who should host the 2026 climate summit leaves Brazilian hosts, and other states, frustrated Delegates turning up in the Amazonian city of Belém for the Cop30 climate conference were greeted by what some interpreted as a less than subtle dig by the Brazilian hosts. The pavilions for Australia and Turkey – … Read more
The $C56bn plan focused on investing in a resource economy falls short of changing Canadians’ day-to-day lives Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, likes to say that when he was young, “we used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly.” That idea – of sprawling projects that transform nations, … Read more
Passengers held on runway for 12 hours after landing in Johannesburg without travel documents South Africa will investigate the “mysterious” arrival of scores of Palestinians who were kept on a charter plane at Johannesburg for 12 hours by border police because they did not have travel papers, the president has said. A group of 153 … Read more
Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried. She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to … Read more
The truce broke down this week after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine blast, prompting Thailand’s PM to say the peace deal was ‘now over’ One person has been killed by gunfire along the Thai-Cambodia border as conflict heats up between the two nations days after a Trump-backed ceasefire agreement has broken … Read more
Videos show schoolgirls fighting off animals, while others show people feeding bears, with some so realistic that users struggled to distinguish between fact and fiction If a record number of fatal bear attacks wasn’t terrifying enough, experts say a torrent of AI-generated videos in Japan purporting to show people in close encounters with the animals … Read more
Takaichi caused a stir last week after she summoned aides to her office for a 3am meeting to prepare for a budget committee hearing Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she gets by on just two to four hours sleep a night – prompting concern over her commitment to a better work-life balance among … Read more
Investigators believe an explosion that killed 13 people may be linked to group operating in the disputed region Police have carried out raids and made several arrests across the Indian region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a car explosion in Delhi that left 13 people dead. On Wednesday, the Indian government confirmed it was … Read more
Canada’s spy agency says it has observed intelligence threats targeting country’s government and private sector Canada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its private sector. In his annual speech on threats facing Canada, Dan Rogers, director of the … Read more
Authoritarian leader calls for US to make peace amid military buildup and strikes against alleged drug smugglers Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump not to lead the US into an Afghanistan-style “forever war”, as the American military buildup in the region intensified and Trump’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowed to purge the … Read more