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Putin’s party wins supermajority in Russia’s parliamentary election
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Australia news live: Albanese signs declaration with world leaders urging human control over AI; city of Sydney bans smartglasses
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Chalmers says Australia has ‘a lot going for us’, despite ‘pretty serious’ economic pressures The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is making the media rounds this morning after the release yesterday of the intergenerational report. We’ve got a lot going for us as well. And one of the things we’ve got going for us, even in the context of these very substantial budget pressures that come from things like ageing and other pressures in our economy, is we’ve actually got a budget which is substantially stronger than other countries. We could have left everything exactly as it was. We could have acknowledged the intergenerational unfairness that exists in the housing market and done nothing about it. We chose to make some difficult changes. Continue reading...
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico file lawsuit against Trump's White House ban
Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they were prevented from entering the White House grounds after President Trump announced plans to ban all three outlets.
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World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El-Niño
Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate crisis on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week. This year’s Climate Week – which runs alongside UNGA – comes after months of extreme heat in large parts of the world including Europe and the US, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record-breaking El Niño . Continue reading...
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AI and autonomous weapons are high on the agenda at the UN General Assembly
As world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly's annual general debate, Colombia's former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate discusses the growing risks of autonomous weapons and AI
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How thousands of migrants stranded in Ceuta are surviving
Authorities estimate that at least 10,000 people remain in the enclave of Ceuta after a record surge in July.
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Former ‘death squad’ leader appears in military trial in The Gambia
Sanna Manjang faces court for deserting army in 2017 after end of Jammeh's 20-year rule.