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Human rights and wrongs: the Australian calling out oppression at home and around the world
Tirana Hassan may be responsible for calling out abuses around the world, but the new global head of Human Rights Watch remains shocked by her home country of Australia’s “dehumanising” treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.
Hassan visited the noto…
European Green Deal Executive VP Frans Timmermans seeks common ground with India ahead of COP 28 in Dubai
Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, on his two-day visit to India met with various cabinet ministers to set a roadmap for this year’s COP 28 and has said that stress on energy efficiency, introduction of renewables …
Russia, AI, climate change The West can overcome the big threats if we pull ourselves together Adam Boulton
What are the big threats to our way of life?
This question was a lurking preoccupation at the London Defence Conference this week, attended by the prime minister and the chief of defence staff along with academics and politicians from across the Wester…
India and the South Pacific
Visuals of Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape touching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s feet have been seen as a reflection of India’s global status, and the significance of its engagement with Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and the Forum fo…
If Rich Listers had to start over in 2023, what would they do?
Lang Walker
I’m open to most things but given the chance to do it all again, I’d definitely still opt for property. It would be very nice to be in my 20s again, knowing what I know now, so I didn’t make all the mistakes I’ve made over the past 50 years…
Polluting particles from car tyres how worried should we be?
In Switzerland, tyre abrasion is the largest source of microplastic in the environment (8,900 tonnes per year). Keystone
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Our vehicles shed tyre particles every time we drive, and they’re everywhere.…
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‘Dream come true’: Shein opens pop-up in Sydney’s Parramatta
News that Shein will hold a pop-up store in Sydney’s west this weekend has sent fans into a frenzy.
The Chinese conglomerate, known as the Amazon of the fast fashion world, is an online retailer known for its apparel, accessories, footwear and home ite…
BYD and Great Wall Motor locked in rare war of words over emissions
[1/2] Members of the press and the general public check out the Atto 3 electric SUV made by Chinese carmaker BYD, at the Fully Charged Live electric vehicle trade show in Farnborough, Britain, April 28, 2023.…
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India’s soft power diplomacy at Pacific Island nations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Papua New Guinea to attend the third Forum of India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) has gained much media attention. The forum, which was held in Port Morseby, has 14 member nations: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kirib…
Conspiracy theories, Moggologues and ‘zombie’ stats: all in a week’s work for GB News
Rishi Sunak came to power in an “anti-democratic coup,” and is in hock to a shadowy “globalist elite”; mass migration is “replacing” British culture, and net zero is a “suicide note” – not the rantings of an internet troll, but a snapshot of views espo…