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Australia’s ‘advanced’ plan to host COP prompts bidders to pull out
Australia’s bid to host the 2026 climate talks with Pacific Nations is looking strong but it will now also have Turkey to beat.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Australia seen in ‘new light’ at global climate talks
Australia has spent nearly a decade in the wilderness of climate diplomacy. Now Chris Bowen has been called to co-chair crucial climate financial negotiations.
- by Nick O'Malley
Biden uses COP27 stage to vow crackdown on methane
In Egypt for COP27, the president said under his leadership the United States was back as the global leader on climate action.
- by Nick O'Malley
Australian emissions more than triple the entire Pacific region’s
A new emissions tracker, launched by ex-US vice president Al Gore, brings bad news.
- by Cassandra Morgan
Kenya goes public with secret China loan for railway to nowhere
China is Kenya’s top trading partner, and the African country owes more bilateral debt to China than to any other nation. The revelation is unprecedented.
- by Abdi Latif Dahir
Relentless drought kills hundreds of zebras, elephants, wildebeests in Kenya
More than a thousand animals have died as a result of a drought in Kenya amid concerns about the havoc caused by the worsening climate chaos.
- by Bryan Pietsch
From the Archives, 1922: Tutankhamun’s tomb discovered
100 years ago, a Howard Carter-led team discovered the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
‘We have agreed to silence the guns’: Ethiopia civil war truce signed
The civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray may have come to an end on its second anniversary.
- by Declan Walsh, Abdi Latif Dahir and Lynsey Chutel
‘Shocking and brutal’: Australian environmentalist freed after being kidnapped at gunpoint in Chad
Dual French-Australian citizen Jerome Hugonot says he was pushed to the ground and had a gun pointed at his head by his alleged kidnappers.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Australian veterinarian kidnapped in Chad
The veterinarian has been working to protect endangered oryx in the Sahara.
- by AP and Marta Pascual Juanola
At least 100 people killed as twin car bombs strike Somalia
The terror attack has targeted the same location as a 2017 bombing that killed more than 500.
- by Omar Faruk