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Global Insight: 'Time to team up' to tackle climate change

Tag-teaming with other countries to wrestle climate change should be NZ's urgent task given the United States’ lack of leadership, Prof Robert Patman says.

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Bushfire risk spikes as temperatures soar in Australia

Forecasts of soaring temperatures and damaging wind gusts have prompted Australian authorities to raise bushfire alerts to their highest levels in more than two years.

Trump adds turkeys to big pardon list

President Donald Trump with Gobble at the White House. Photo: Reuters

Trump adds turkeys to big pardon list

Gobble and Waddle have been spared from Thanksgiving dinner tables.

23 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released

The hostel room after gunmen attacked the girls' boarding school in Kebbi State on November 17....

23 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released

Twenty-four girls abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria have been released, it has been confirmed.

Conservative leads in polls

Chile ultra-conservative presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast secured a commanding double-digit lead in the first polls taken since he and a leftist rival advanced to the country’s runoff vote.

Set up to drop the ball here

A newly created New Year’s Eve ball adorned with 5280 Waterford crystals is raised for the first time above One Times Square yesterday

Opposition leader flees after disputed vote

Opposition leader flees after disputed vote

Opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has fled Cameroon for Gambia following the re-election of Paul Biya, the world’s oldest president

Street named after former prince to be changed

The former Prince Andrew. File photo: Reuters

Council votes to change street named after former prince

A Northern Irish council has agreed to begin work to rename a street named after Britain's former Prince Andrew.

Queensland braces for more wild storms after destruction

Queensland braces for more wild storms after destruction

Emergency crews are battling heatwave conditions as they restore power to thousands in Queensland ahead of another round of dangerous superstorms.

Global Insight: 'Time to team up' to tackle climate change

Global Insight: 'Time to team up' to tackle climate change

Tag-teaming with other countries to wrestle climate change should be NZ's urgent task given the United States’ lack of leadership, Prof Robert Patman says.

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies

Jimmy Cliff performing during the 10th Mawazine World Rhythms international music festival in...

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularized reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six decade career, has died

Search for missing Aussie boy resumes

Gus Lamont was last seen by his grandmother on September 27, Supplied photo

Mine shafts focus as search for missing Aussie boy resumes

A new search for a missing four-year-old boy is about to ramp up two months after he vanished from his family's remote outback farmhouse.

Fifty kidnapped students escape in Nigeria

Newsstands in Nigeria report the kidnapping. Photo: Reuters

Fifty kidnapped students escape in Nigeria

Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian...

Massive clean-up as tropical cyclone moves on

Massive clean-up in Australia's Top End as tropical cyclone moves on

Thousands remain without power and a stack of schools are closed, but Top Enders have been spared serious injuries and significant damage from tropical cyclone Fina.

US lauds Ukraine peace talks but major hurdles remain

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and U.S. Secretary of State Marco...

US lauds Ukraine peace talks but major hurdles remain

The US says it has made significant progress on crafting a plan to end the war in Ukraine during talks on Sunday but no agreement was reached on how to guarantee Kyiv's security amid concerns about the threat posed by Russia.

Israeli strike kills Hezbollah official despite truce

The aftermath of the Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, in which at least five people were killed...

Israeli strike kills Hezbollah official despite truce

Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday, the Israeli military said, despite a US-brokered truce a year ago.

Uneasy climate deal sidesteps fossil fuels

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's Simon Stiell (left) talks with COP30 president Andre...

Uneasy climate deal sidesteps fossil fuels

Brazil's COP30 presidency has pushed through a compromise climate deal boosting finance for poor nations coping with global warming, but omitting any mention of fossil fuels driving it.

Nigeria gunmen kidnap over 200 Catholic school students

Friday's incident in Niger state is the largest mass kidnapping of school children since March 2024.

Ukraine's 'difficult choice' over peace plan

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukraine risks losing its dignity and freedom - or Washington’s backing - over a US peace plan that endorses key Russian demands.

Kids seriously hurt in bear attack

The attack by a grizzly bear happened on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province. Photo: Getty Images

Kids seriously hurt in bear attack

A grizzly bear has attacked a school group on a walking trail in Canada, seriously injuring three children and one adult.

Darwin braces for impact as tropical cyclone bears down

The first cyclone of the season is threatening northern Australia, triggering commonwealth assistance as the Top End bunkers down.

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