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World Health Organisation says humanitarian crisis is 'getting worse by the hour'

Watch when Bill Gates spoke at a UN summit on climate and growth in Paris, on Tuesday 5 December 2023.

Fridays for Future Sweden activists haven’t ‘been radicalised’ – solidarity with marginalised people has always been at the heart of our message, say Fridays for Future Sweden activist Greta Thunberg and others

Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister casts doubt over how drunk Brittany Higgins was on the night of the alleged rape at Parliament House

Activists had a series of events and actions lined up Tuesday at the United Nations climate summit seeking to amp up pressure on conference participants to agree to phase out coal, oil and gas, responsible for most of the world’s emissions, and move to clean energy in a fair way

UAE-hosted summit admitted at least 2,456 people affiliated with oil and gas industries, analysis finds

Access to sufficient cooling could further drive up the already rampant inequality in the country

Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after expanding their offensive deeper into the besieged territory, with warnings that an "even more hellish scenario" was unfolding for trapped civilians.

Israel said Tuesday that its forces had entered “the heart” of Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians. Military officials said they were engaged in the “most intense day” of battles since the ground offensive began more…