RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defence treaty with Washington in return for normalising relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, two Saudi and four Western officials told Reuters. In a drive to get a wide-ranging mutual security treaty over the line earlier this […]
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SYDNEY, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Australia approved on Thursday a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that has gripped the nation, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech. The law forces tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta
BAKU, Nov 22 (Reuters): The COP29 climate summit ran into overtime on Friday, after a draft deal that proposed developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help poorer nations drew criticism from all sides. World governments represented at the summit in the Azerbaijan capital Baku are tasked with
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (Reuters): Beijing is pushing Pakistan to allow its own security staff to provide protection to thousands of Chinese citizens working in the South Asian nation, during talks after a car bombing in Karachi that was seen as a major security breach. Last month\’s airport bombing in the southern port city that killed two Chinese
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LFAFAR, SPAIN (Reuters): Spanish rescuers opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre and battled to reach areas still cut off on Friday as the death toll from catastrophic floods rose to 205 people in Europe\’s worst weather disaster in five decades. In Valencia, the eastern region that bore the brunt of the devastation, about
