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Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence as a leader of campaigns by the Radical Party that legalized abortion and divorce in the 1970s in heavily Roman Catholic Italy, against the objections of the Vatican, has died.

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thehindu.com | 36 min. ago NEW

Border tensions in Arunachal, economic issues set to dominate Modi-Xi bilateral

#bilateral #border #Chinese #Indian #leader #Modi #Xi

Indian and Chinese leaders to meet for third time in three years since standoff, but no reset in ties yet

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iol.co.za | 1 hrs. 18 min. ago

Sooklal breaks silence after DIRCO clears him over Zuma-Gupta controversy

#Africa #commission #far right #Gupta #India #Jacob Zuma #leader #President #Silence #South Africa

Former president Jacob Zuma (far right) pictured with Ajay Gupta (second from left), spiritual leaders and Professor Anil Sooklal, High Commissioner of South Africa to India (fourth from left), at a temple in India.

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thehindu.com | 1 hrs. 42 min. ago

Nepal flood reconstruction bill to be $4.78 bn: foreign ministry

#environment #foreign ministry #international support #leader #Nepal

Nepal's leaders say the Himalayan country needs long-term international support to adapt to a rapidly changing mountain environment

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globalnews.ca | 1 hrs. 57 min. ago

Parti Québécois leader says sovereignty referendum would cost $130M

#government #leader #sovereignty

The leader of the Parti Québecois says it would cost at least $130 million to pay for the sovereignty referendum he plans to hold in 2029 or 2030 if his party forms a government.

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thehindu.com | 2 hrs. 47 min. ago

Congress leader arrested for protesting against Baba Bageshwar’s remarks in Kolkata

#arrested #Congress #insult #Kolkata #leader #Police #protest #protesters

Kolkata Police said the acts by the protesters “amounted to an insult to the religious sentiments of a particular community and posed a threat to public order with the potential to incite social disharmony.”

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smh.com.au | 2 hrs. 50 min. ago

Senior schooling hard for parents, students to understand, review finds

#leader #Queensland #review #school #students

Despite endorsement from school leaders and staff at Queensland’s assessment authority, the year 11 and 12 schooling system has issues to fix and hearts to win.

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livemint.com | 2 hrs. 53 min. ago

‘Not a small matter’: Shashi Tharoor on BRICS 2026 after P Chidambaram questions ‘tangible benefits’

#BRICS #Congress #Global South #India #leader

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Friday that India, which is hosting this year's BRICS, is providing an important platform for the Global South. “It's not a small matter; it's something that has to be taken very seriously by the rest of the world,” he said.

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cbsnews.com | 2 hrs. 58 min. ago

Look back: 9/11, Osama bin Laden, and a safe haven in Afghanistan

#Afghanistan #Allen #attack #correspondent #hope #leader #Pentagon #retaliation #United States #warfare #Washington #world trade

After terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, America's attention turned fully to the group's leader, Osama bin Laden, and his Al Qaeda network, which had found protection in Afghanistan. Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports on a country already devastated by more than 20 years of continuous warfare, which was anticipating further retaliation by Washington, in a story that originally aired Sept. 16, 2001. Pizzey also talks with Vicky and Mark Timlin, of the charity Hope Worldwide, whose head office ordered them to leave Afghanistan following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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thehindu.com | 3 hrs. 19 min. ago

CPI seeks TVK, VCK support for Thattanchavady bypoll in Puducherry

#Chennai #CPI #General #leader

A delegation of CPI leaders led by the party’s Puducherry secretary A.M. Saleem on Thursday met Tamil Nadu Minister and TVK general secretary N. Anand in Chennai to formally seek support for the October 6 bypoll

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theguardian.com | 3 hrs. 21 min. ago

Greens select Zack Polanski to run in Holborn and St Pancras byelection

#Keir Starmer #leader #parliament #politics #race

Leader has said Greens are underdogs in race for Keir Starmer’s former seat but he is confident they can beat LabourZack Polanski, the Green party leader, has been selected as its candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras byelection on 8 October.The seat became vacant this month when the former prime minister Keir Starmer announced he was leaving parliament. Continue reading...

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mirror.co.uk | 3 hrs. 25 min. ago

Green Party leader Zack Polanski confirmed for major by-election clash in Keir Starmer's old seat

#election #Keir Starmer #leader

The Green Party leader Zack Polanski was confirmed as the Green candidate on Friday morning, and will face off with Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council

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thehindu.com | 3 hrs. 51 min. ago

CPI(M) leader Shanmugam urges Tamil Nadu government to convene all-party meeting on new Secretariat site selection

#CPI #government #leader

Mr. Shanmugam said the fishing community living in the area, close to the identified location in Pattinapakkam, had been opposing the proposal to construct the new Secretariat there

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thehindu.com | 3 hrs. 51 min. ago

Emma Bonino, leader of abortion and divorce battles that changed Italy, dies aged 78

#Italy #leader #politics #veteran

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as a Lower House lawmaker and two times as a Senator

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theguardian.com | 3 hrs. 54 min. ago

Emma Bonino, radical Italian politician who stood up to Vatican, dies aged 78

#campaign #Europe #Facebook #feminist #history #leader #Politician

Militant feminist led campaigns to legalise abortion and divorce and went on to become foreign minister Emma Bonino, the radical Italian politician who led campaigns to legalise abortion and divorce against the objections of the Vatican, has died aged 78.“Today we lose not only our leader but also one of the most clear-sighted, courageous and free figures in the political history of our country,” the small party she founded, More Europe, said on Facebook on Friday. Continue reading...

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euromaidanpress.com | 4 hrs. 9 min. ago

Canada sanctions eight Russians over deported Ukrainian children as only about 2,500 of more than 20,000 have come home

#Canada #leader #Ottawa #Russian #sanction #Ukraine #Ukrainian

Ottawa's listing bars anyone in Canada from handling the property of the eight, and it took effect a week before Ukraine's leader arrived for talks.

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abcnews.com | 5 hrs. 17 min. ago

BRICS leaders gather in New Delhi as wars and rivalries strain the expanded bloc

#BRICS #China #Delhi #leader #Middle East #New Delhi #Ukraine #war

BRICS leaders are meeting in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group's unity

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abcnews.com | 6 hrs. 57 min. ago

Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing visits Cambodia as he seeks to restore ASEAN engagement

#Cambodia #leader #Military #Min #Min Aung Hlaing #Myanmar #President

Myanmar’s military-backed president is in Cambodia to meet its leaders

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scmp.com | 7 hrs. 15 min. ago

Alibaba mourns former independent director Tung Chee-hwa, hails his global vision

#China #Chinese #e-commerce #Executive #hail #Hong Kong #leader

Alibaba Group Holding has mourned the death of Tung Chee-hwa, who served as an independent director, saying the global perspective of Hong Kong’s first leader helped the e-commerce giant remain rooted in China while expanding internationally. Tung, Hong Kong’s first postcolonial chief executive, later became a vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He joined Alibaba Group’s board as an independent director in 2014 and held the position until 2022. He...

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scmp.com | 7 hrs. 46 min. ago

Malaysia pauses Najib’s pardon decision amid public backlash

#agenda #conviction #corruption #leader #Malaysia #Najib Razak

Malaysia’s Pardons Board has postponed discussions on disgraced former leader Najib Razak’s pardon application, days after widespread public outrage over the possibility that he could walk free from his corruption conviction. The country has been in an uproar since it was revealed earlier this week that Najib’s application for clemency was on the agenda of the board’s meeting, chaired by King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar. However, Putrajaya said on Friday the king, constitutionally empowered to grant...

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thehindu.com | 8 hrs. 11 min. ago

No statehood, Ladakh to get unique elected body, says Chief Secretary

#administration #leader #Page

At a meeting with LAB and KDA, the Home Ministry discussed the proposed structure of the UT-level body under Article 371 was discussed; Ladakh leaders call the meeting a “waste of time and money”, they say the Ministry and the UT administration are not on the same page

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theguardian.com | 8 hrs. 13 min. ago

Osama bin Laden shook the world on 9/11. Today it is clear how his wider plans failed

#Afghanistan #DC #eastern #killing #leader #Middle East #Muslim #New York #Pentagon #plane #uprising #Van #Washington

Jason Burke | The al-Qaida leader envisaged an economically battered US withdrawing from the Middle East – and a global Muslim uprising. Then the tide turnedOn 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan. His convoy of SUVs was accompanied by a minivan converted into a makeshift communications centre.The van’s rudimentary equipment did not allow Bin Laden to watch the 19 men he had started sending to the US more than a year before fly planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington DC, killing about 3,000 people. But he listened as shocked radio announcers broke the news. Continue reading...

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ft.com | 9 hrs. 13 min. ago

[$] UK universities fail to win over Reform

#charm offensive #leader #offensive #Populist #UK #universities

University leaders have spent months on a charm offensive aimed at gaining the support of the populist rightwing party

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nytimes.com | 9 hrs. 18 min. ago

[$] Why Emerging Powers Keep Joining BRICS, Even When They Disagree

#BRICS #conflict #Delhi #energy #energy prices #leader #New Delhi #power #prices

Leaders of emerging economies meet in New Delhi this weekend, but global conflicts and soaring energy prices threaten to undermine unity.

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theguardian.com | 9 hrs. 34 min. ago

$15m fund launched to create ‘unstoppable momentum’ to end FGM worldwide

#attack #frontline #fund #launch #leader #rights #survivors #Unicef #women

Her Horizon Fund seeks $100m to stop practice harming 230m women and girls globally Frontline activists and leaders in the fight against female genital mutilation, which has affected more than 230 million women and girls worldwide, have welcomed an unprecedented $15.5m (£11.4m) fund aimed at creating “unstoppable momentum” to finally end the practice.The launch of the fund comes as women’s rights are increasingly under attack and donor funding is in sharp decline, particularly for work led by FGM survivors in local communities. It is thought to be the largest single philanthropic contribution to ending the practice of FGM. Continue reading...

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smh.com.au | 9 hrs. 37 min. ago

Australians remember lost loved ones 25 years on from September 11 attacks

#attack #leader #Mamdani #New York #New York City

Complex feelings about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and new revelations about the actions of city leaders at the time, are adding to the emotion of the 25th anniversary.

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theguardian.com | 11 hrs. 14 min. ago

Ed Stone to elder statesman: the making of Ed Miliband – podcast

#bank #election #General #government #Israel #leader #sanction #trade sanctions #transformation #UK #West Bank

The UK foreign secretary has drawn rage and respect after announcing trade sanctions on Israeli settlers. Heather Stewart explains how – and why – Ed Miliband got toughThis time just over a decade ago, Ed Miliband was known for pushing his older brother David out of the way to become leader of the Labour party … only to lose the 2015 general election and become an internet meme for eating a bacon sandwich. But through the last 10 years, Miliband seems to have undergone a quiet transformation.This week he condemned Israel’s “settler terrorists”, saying they were ethnically cleansing the West Bank, his condemnation breaking decades-long government policy on UK-Israel relations. And, his supporters say, he’s only just getting started. Continue reading...

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scmp.com | 11 hrs. 42 min. ago

Tech, EV and aerospace executives likely to join Xi’s US trip to mirror Trump team

#Beijing #China #Chinese #Executive #leader #President #race #Trump #Washington #Xi #Xi Jinping

Beijing is weighing plans to send a group of top tech, electric vehicle and aerospace executives to accompany Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington later this month, as the two sides race to finalise details for the closely watched visit. The South China Morning Post first reported on August 28 that Chinese and US officials were negotiating whether business leaders would join Xi’s delegation to the US. However, details about who might be included have not been previously reported. According...

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thehindu.com | 13 hrs. ago

Kerala HC denies bail to PFI leaders in Sreenivasan murder case

#crime #custody #leader #murder #murder case

Court reasons that since their offence had resulted in the death of a person and the period of custody had not amounted to a substantial part of the prescribed punishment for their crime, they would not be entitled to bail on the grounds of prolonged custody and delay of trial

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scmp.com | 13 hrs. 30 min. ago

Can a US$6 trillion South Korea-Japan economic bloc succeed?

#conflict #disruption #global trade #integration #Japan #leader #Middle East #South Korea #tariff #tariffs #tit-for-tat #trade integration #Ukraine

A fraying global economic order could push South Korea and Japan towards deeper trade integration, with business leaders and analysts saying the two neighbours stand to benefit from such a partnership despite lingering historical wounds. The two countries could draw closer as the era of relatively open global trade gives way to tit-for-tat tariffs and supply-chain disruptions due to conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. SK Group chairman and Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairman...

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dailymail.com | 13 hrs. 33 min. ago

Fears of 'jobs bloodbath' as Burnham launches huge 'tourist tax' raid - with families and businesses set to be hammered... while Sadiq Khan could rake in £580m from the move

#charge #Jobs #launch #leader #power #tax #tourist tax

Mayors and other local leaders will get powers to impose charges on accommodation in Labour's latest move to raise revenues.

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thehindu.com | 14 hrs. 49 min. ago

Bihar Congress disciplinary committee issues show-cause notices to 29 leaders

#committee #Congress #Delhi #leader #New Delhi #protest

The matter is related to participation in a protest against the state leadership held in New Delhi on September 8.

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thehindu.com | 15 hrs. 52 min. ago

Wars, global crises may top agenda of 18th BRICS summit

#agenda #bilateral #BRICS #General #Iran #leader #Modi #PM #President #Putin #Secretary-General #summit #UN #UN Secretary-General #war

Iran President Pezeshkian and UN Secretary-General Guterres are among the leaders expected to attend the summit; Putin is likely to have a bilateral meeting with PM Modi and discuss defence and other matters

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theguardian.com | 15 hrs. 54 min. ago

The Guardian view on falling birthrates: cash alone cannot buy belonging

#BBC #billion #CDC #China #crash #deaths #Don #England #fertility rate #government #government support #India #leader #Migration #Nigeria #population #research #security #Singapore #UK #UN #Wales #women

Editorial | Young people still want partners and children. Governments must address the insecurity and isolation preventing them from building familiesWhy are people in one of the world’s richest, safest countries having so few children? Singapore is asking that question. In 2000, its fertility rate matched America’s at 1.6 children per woman. By 2025, it had dropped to 0.87 – almost half the US rate. Singapore’s leaders, worried about population collapse, have reached for the chequebook. Each child, including those born to unmarried parents, will get $55,000 in government support by the time they turn 17. Yet a quarter of Singaporeans say they do not intend to have children. Wealth and security, clearly, don’t guarantee more babies.UN data shows that global fertility fell from 5.3 births per woman in 1963 to 2.2 in 2023. But this masks a growing divide. In some poor sub-Saharan African countries there are around six births per woman. Compare this with England and Wales, where the figure is just 1.39. More than half of the world – including a billion women in India and China – have a fertility rate below the global 2.1 “replacement level” needed to sustain populations without migration. But even in poor countries with high mortality rates and consequently higher replacement rates, births outpace deaths. In Nigeria, for example, the fertility rate of 4.4 exceeds its replacement rate of 2.6 children per woman.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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nytimes.com | 16 hrs. 5 min. ago

[$] A Succession Battle Erupts Over a Late Ugandan Monarch

#control #journalist #leader #succession

Family members and royal leaders are jockeying for control in the Tooro Kingdom after its former boy king died last month. Elders chose a TV journalist to succeed him, but the royal family has objected.

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thehindu.com | 16 hrs. 26 min. ago

Under-construction bridge collapses in Bihar’s Vaishali, seven injured

#corrupt #corruption #government #injured #leader #opposition

Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav criticised the state government, alleging that as expected, the corrupt NDA government will once again cover up its corruption.

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thebulwark.com | 16 hrs. 31 min. ago

How the Right Came to Embrace Anti-Muslim Bigotry

#attack #leader #Muslim #terrorist attack

After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Republican leaders opposed anti-Muslim sentiment. But the right’s worst instincts won.

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