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Jacinda Ardern’s climate summit problem is the opposite of Scott Morrison’s

Why is Ardern, who called climate change the nuclear-free issue of her generation, not making the trip to Glasgow?

Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke

Stuff chief political reporter

How one US senator could sink Biden’s climate agenda and COP26

With Biden’s climate legislation at risk of collapse in Congress, the US President’s ability to deliver on his emissions reduction target is in serious doubt. 

Matthew Knott
Matthew Knott

North America Correspondent

Purges, a plot and the real reason why Xi Jinping might be afraid to leave China

There are credible reports of a foiled conspiracy against the Chinese leader.

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

Political and international editor

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North America

A GalSafe pig, genetically engineered to eliminate a particular sugar that causes rejection by humans.

Pig’s kidney attached to human patient in scientific breakthrough

It is hoped the major advance could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.

  • by Nancy Lapid
Environmentalist Bill McKibben says he fears US climate envoy John Kerry will be sent “naked” to the Glasgow summit if Democrats don’t pass climate legislation through Congress.

‘A gift to delayers’: top environmentalist fears Glasgow summit on brink of failure

Bill McKibben says Australia’s “role as a supplier of dirty carbon to much of the world is, at this point in human history, a shameful role”.

  • by Matthew Knott

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Ten thousand teachers in Hotan take part in a mass oath in Keriye County.

Fake families and neighbourhood spies: China’s 24-hour repression of Uighurs

In the campaign to remake Xinjiang into a region of ‘perfect stability’, household managers are trained in intelligence and ideological instability is punished with re-education.

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Russell Crowe bringing his star power to Bangkok.

Russell Crowe’s ‘soft power gift’ to Thailand as it scraps tourist quarantine

Just over a third of its population is fully vaccinated but the tourism-starved nation is preparing to welcome back foreigners quarantine-free from November 1.

  • by Chris Barrett

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will not attend the Glasgow summit.

Jacinda Ardern’s climate summit problem is the opposite of Scott Morrison’s

Why is Ardern, who called climate change the nuclear-free issue of her generation, not making the trip to Glasgow?

  • by Henry Cooke

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