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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
Opinion & Perspectives
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
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
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
Political and international editor
North America
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
‘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
FBI raids New York, Washington homes of Russian linked to 2016 US interference
- by Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball
Haiti gang that kidnapped missionary group seeks $US1m ransom per hostage
- by Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
Europe
Queen Elizabeth cancels trip, told to rest by doctors
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton
Asia
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’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
Opinion
Inside China
Purges, a plot and the real reason why Xi Jinping might be afraid to leave China
- by Peter Hartcher
Explainer
China relations
‘Playing with fire’: Why might Taiwan be the next global flashpoint?
- by Eryk Bagshaw
China puts US on back foot with ‘game-changing’ hypersonic missile test
- by Louise Watt and Marcus Parekh
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