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By Michael West NSW Police have dropped charges against the remaining climate protesters from Rising Tide’s 2024 People’s Blockade of Newcastle Harbour — the site of the world’s largest coal port. Climate Defenders Australia, which represented 117 of the arrestees, had repeatedly petitioned police to withdraw anti-protest charges after they failed to prosecute test cases,
By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific Disagreement from some China-aligned Pacific Islands countries has prevented regional countries within the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) issuing a joint statement against missile testing in the Pacific. At their meeting in Suva on Friday, PIF foreign ministers failed to agree on a unified statement against China after it fired
The construction of the pool reflected a national ambition to build something unifying and enduring. The rushed renovation and political fallout of 2026 reveal how much that civic vision has changed.
When it comes to the best of the Fringe’s comedy lineup this year, we’ve done all the heavy lifting so you don’t have to.
Pressure is mounting on Andy Burnham to address small boat crossings into the UK.
Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.
The rocket section struck the lunar surface near Einstein crater on the Moon’s near side.
Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
AI translations push the crafted work of real translators – with qualifications, genuine language skills and experience – to the back of a very busy marketplace.
As AI-generated text becomes harder to identify, the real clues lie in how online conversations are being manipulated.
Beneath the show’s wealth, sex and violence is an examination of how the freedoms and fears of the 1980s shaped the world we inhabit today.
A State Department report on this alleged problem is new, but its claims about alleged communist machinations being behind activist movements in the US are old.