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Romania in shock after far-right populist enters presidential election’s runoff with most votes

CNN 2024-11-25

photo: AP / Andreea Alexandru

Romania’s political landscape is reeling after a little-known, far-right populist secured the first round in the presidential election, electoral data showed Monday, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent prime minister. Calin Georgescu, who ran independently, will face off against...

How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees

Grist 2024-11-25

photo: UN / Vugar Ibadov

When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the goal of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, it seemed possible, probable even, that humanity was on track to avoiding the worst...

Cease-fire deal between Israel, Hezbollah ‘within two days’: Israeli media

Anadolu Agency 2024-11-25

photo: AP / Hussein Malla

A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah is expected to be announced within two days, Israeli media said on Monday. The public broadcaster KAN, citing an Israeli source, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a US-backed cease-fire with Lebanon. According...

Many of Israel's Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?

Beijing News 2024-11-25

photo: AP / Mahmoud Illean

Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel's right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self defence and...

U.N. Says an Average of 140 Women Were Killed Every Day of 2023 by a Partner or Relative

Time 2024-11-25

photo: © European Union 2021 / - Source : EP

The deadliest place for women is at home and 140 women and girls on average were killed by an intimate partner or family member per day last year, two U.N. agencies reported Monday. Globally, an intimate partner or family member was responsible for the deaths of approximately 51,100 women and girls...

Who would and wouldn’t arrest Israel’s Netanyahu

Asiatimes 2024-11-25

photo: AP / Alberto Pezzali

Ever since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel’s right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self-defense and...

Inferno destroys thousands of shanties in Manila’s biggest slum area

CNN 2024-11-25

photo: AP / Aaron Favila

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing...

$300 billion climate deal reached at COP29

Gulf-Times 2024-11-24

photo: AP / Anupam Nath, File

Countries participating at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku have adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change.The agreement, clinched in overtime at the two-week conference in Azerbaijan's capital, was...

At least 11 killed after Israeli strike flattens building in central Beirut, Civil Defense says

CNN 2024-11-23

photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

At least 11 people have been killed and several others injured after an Israeli strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, Lebanese officials said. Rescue workers in...

Britain forked out $91 million for King Charles’ coronation in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis

CNN 2024-11-22

photo: Henry Nicholls/POOL via AP

The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla held in May last year cost British taxpayers £72 million ($91 million), an amount some have labeled excessive. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said in its annual accounts released Thursday that it had spent just over £50 million ($63...

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