A very cold start to 2025 and the growing power demands of data centres and cryptocurrencies saw US emissions of planet-warming gases rise for the first time in three years, a new analysis shows.
Last year homes burned more gas for heating while…
Category: 2. World
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Marine Le Pen’s political fate rests on appeal trial opening in France
A high-stakes appeal by far-right French politician Marine Le Pen starts on Tuesday against a ruling that banned her from running for public office for five years.
Le Pen, 57, was found guilty last year of embezzling EU funds and if the ban is…
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Trump briefed on military and covert options for Iran, sources say
Danielle Kaye,Business reporterand
Claire Keenan
Mortuary videos shows violent government crackdown in Iran President Donald Trump has been briefed on a wide range of covert and military tools for use in Iran, two Department of Defense officials…
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Death toll rises to 11
The death toll in a collapsed landfill in the central Philippines has risen to 11, authorities said.
The landslide occurred at the Binaliw landfill in Cebu City last week while more than 100 workers were on site, officials said. Rescuers have so…
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How Adelaide Writers’ Week imploded after axing Palestinian author
Macquarie UniversityRanda Abdel-Fattah says a decision to exclude her from the Adelaide Festival was racist One of Australia’s biggest cultural festivals has been left in disarray after a decision to disinvite a prominent Australian-Palestinian…
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Pioneering gay footballer accuses former club of homophobia
Joshua Cavallo – the first man to come out as gay while playing top-tier football – has alleged he was pushed out of his former club due to “internal homophobia”.
Cavallo, who recently joined Stamford AFC after leaving Adelaide United in May last…
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How will investigators determine if ICE shooting was justified?
Video shows moment US immigration agent fatally shoots woman US investigators will face a host of thorny questions in determining whether the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal agent in Minneapolis last week was justified, as local and…
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The Indian film star turning politician in Tamil Nadu
G Venket RamVijay’s new film will open to nearly 5,000 cinemas across India and overseas in January India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has a long, peculiar political tradition: here, cinema doesn’t merely entertain, it also governs.
From…
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Yoweri Museveni and Bobi Wine battle for the votes of a young electorate
Sammy AwamiBBC Africa, Kampala
AFP via Getty ImagesBackers of Yoweri Museveni are hoping for a seventh successive election victory Whether decked in the bright yellow of the ruling party or donning the revolutionary red of the main opposition,…
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How one woman lures foreign recruits to Russia’s front line in Ukraine
Nawal Al-Maghafi,Senior international investigations correspondentand
Sheida Kiran,BBC Eye Investigations
‘Do you recognise your passport? Now look what will happen to it’, says unseen woman in a video Flames lick around the edges of Omar’s…
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