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Australia news live: Bragg defends his rogue super proposal as ‘not controversial’; ABC watchdog criticises Four Corners
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Spain allows US extradition case against pro-Palestine aid donor to proceed
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Taylor distances himself from Bragg’s proposal to let homebuyers use super as collateral for mortgages
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US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark
Agreement signed at the UN general assembly in New York Nordic correspondent Emotions among Greenlanders are a mixture of hope, scepticism and fear ahead of the signing of a new much vaunted deal on Arctic security between the US, Greenland and Denmark. “There have been many different reactions in Greenland because they are talking about a deal but no one can see the deal, we don’t know what it is all about, and what’s in it for us or what’s in it. Also, because we have been terrorised as a people for the last 1.5 years by the American president, so many people feel no trust at all.” Continue reading...