The Chinese President told his colleagues in Rome and Glasgow that he was “delivering concrete actions”, while trying to put out a fire in his own backyard.

Hun Sen has questioned when Australia will deliver on a pledge of 2 million Pfizer doses, saying he will buy more from China if they don’t turn up.

Notwithstanding the bad feeling over the cancelled submarine deal with France, Australia now finds itself at the centre of a geopolitical row which is testing our PM’s diplomatic skills.

Developers promised buyers of the soon-to-be ready upmarket apartments a “stress-free lifestyle”.

It said it had been active for five years, was primarily operated by staff of the country’s telecoms watchdog, out of the postal service headquarters.

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“He doesn’t get what’s happening,” say lawyers for the convicted drug trafficker, who will be the first executed prisoner since 2019.

At the heart of the collapse of Emmanuel Macron and Scott Morrison’s relationship are two questions.

A Constitutional Tribunal, under the sway of Poland’s conservative ruling party, ruled last year that abortions for congenital defects were not constitutional.

“Bond is strapped to a doomsday device as a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a destination that will end human life as we know it,” the British PM told delegates.

The Queen has delivered an emotionally charged and highly political call to arms to world leaders on climate change, invoking her own mortality to send a warning about the need to protect future generations.

Fiji’s president provided Scott Morrison with a copy of Fiji’s climate change act, which Frank Bainimarama hopes could serve as a model for Australia.

It’s very hard for Morrison to refute a stereo accusation of deceptive conduct from two powerful speakers at once.

Jes Staley is leaving the bank after a dispute with British financial regulators over how he described his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Philippines asked Netflix to remove certain episodes of the six-part Australian series Pine Gap, saying a map depicted on the show was a violation of its sovereignty.

Hotspots have shifted over 22 months, turning different places on the world map red, especially where rumours, misinformation and distrust in government have hobbled vaccination efforts

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is not possible to contain Delta forever.

A Taliban spokesman said two of the attackers who killed three people in a “personal feud” had been arrested, and he insisted they were not part of the Islamist movement.

Revelers gathered to watch participants dressed in costume during the Day of The Dead parade in Mexico City, Mexico. The parade returned this year after being forced online in 2020 due to the pandemic.

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A political storm over the Prime Minister’s integrity has been ignited by French President Emmanuel Macron saying he’d been deceived about the submarine deal.

Mexico’s Day of the Dead mass commemorations returned on Sunday, including parades and moments of more solemn remembrance in a country where coronavirus touched almost all families.

Early exit polls suggested the LDP would not be able to retain a majority in Sunday’s election following a tumultuous year in which it lost two of its former leaders.

“Vaccine” more than doubled in frequency over the past year. But the usage of “vax” — a word that first appeared in the 1980s — surged dramatically.

Psaki said she was last in contact with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, when she met him in the White House.

A recent report showed that parts of the Amazonian region, which used to capture carbon dioxide, have now become a source of it.

The diminutive figure’s arrival proved she is capable of attracting more attention than most of the 120 world leaders sitting at the main table.

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Natural gas, already in short supply in Europe this autumn, began moving away from Germany and back toward the east.

Trump has been using fundraising committees to skirt social media bans, raising more than $US1 million a week through texts, emails and alerts.

Two-thirds of the reduction could come from purchasing offshore climate offsets or other global reductions New Zealand purchases, rather than a domestic cut.

Three protesters were killed and dozens injured — several by live rounds — as security forces opened fire in several locations, a doctors’ union said.

A study of 1.5 million Israelis just published in the Lancet shows rates of COVID hospitalisation and death shrinking drastically after five-month booster.

The actor spoke to photographers in Vermont, saying that the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins “was my friend” - and he “sincerely doubts” the film will resume.

The Biden administration wants all employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by December 8.

An outspoken Putin rival has been accused of illegal hunting in what critics claim is a set-up by the Kremlin.

The report also dismissed suggestions that the coronavirus originated as a bioweapon, saying proponents of this theory have been accused of spreading disinformation.

“Leaving this sort of decision until just hours until the international border opens has caused more unnecessary distress,” said an Australian in Canada, wanting to come home.

The Duke of York called Giuffre’s “baseless” lawsuit an effort to “achieve another payday” from her accusations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The US President says he “honest to God” was unaware that France had not been given advance notice of Australia’s decision.

The monarch recently cancelled a planned trip to Northern Ireland after she was instructed to rest by doctors.

Those who know Boris Johnson well stress that to understand his current climate crusade you must first understand his inner circle.

The President, who goes to weekly Mass and keeps a picture of the Pope behind his desk in the Oval Office, has said he is personally opposed to abortion but cannot impose his views as an elected leader.

Lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot Halyna Hutchins, also blamed producers for unsafe working conditions.

Dr Tedros will retain the top job at the WHO despite coming under heavy criticism for the body’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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American Heather Mack has been released after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for helping to kill her mother and then stuffing the body in a suitcase.

With an approval rating of 63 per cent, the former banker is more popular than most of the other democratic leaders who will be visiting Rome.

The researchers underlined that the findings did not weaken the argument for vaccination as the best way of reducing serious illness from COVID-19.

Two thirds of the Virginian island of Tangier has disappeared since 1850. But the mayor doesn’t believe in climate change - or the last election result.