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Ill-disciplined chest-thumping has put war at centre of what’s left of the Australia-China relationship

Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd

The Morrison government has trashed a 50-year convention when it comes to public comment about Taiwan.

Europe’s carbon tariff plan will ‘trigger a race to the top’, but there will be tensions

Frans Timmermans and Josep Borrell

There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.

China’s latest move a mere formality as Xi and Morrison speak the dialogue of the deaf

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

Beijing’s decision to suspend a high-level economic dialogue with Australia has no practical effect. But it conveys important information nonetheless.

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North America

Authorities allege the man bought a Ferrari among other luxury cars with funds aimed at helping small businesses survive the COVID pandemic.

Man accused of spending COVID relief cash on Ferrari, Lamborghini

US federal agents have since seized the cars along with $US2 million from his bank account.

  • by Alma Fausto
California Governor Gavin Newsom blamed the population decline on the coronavirus pandemic that turned everything upside down in 2020.

California population declines for first time in history

The drop halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.

  • by Adam Beam

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Asia

Patients who contracted the coronavirus lie in beds while connected to oxygen supplies in a  hospital in New Delhi.

India COVID deaths hit record high as stricter lockdowns imposed

India on Saturday reported its highest ever single-day COVID-19 death toll, as cases continued to rise and states imposed stricter lockdowns.

  • by Sudarshan Varadhan and Tanvi Mehta
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is in a critical condition in hospital.

Maldives police say blast that hurt Nasheed act of terrorism

The bomb, planted on a motorbike, injured the Parliament Speaker and former president, and four others including a British national.

  • by Mohamed Sharuhaan

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An Afghan school student is treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul.

Blasts targeting Afghan school in Kabul kills dozens of students

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.

  • by Reuters

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