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Trudeau flies to Florida to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago: source – National

30Nov

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Trudeau flies to Florida to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago: source – National

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has flown to Florida to meet with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Global News has learned. The trip comes days after Trump threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico unless the two countries stop migrants and illegal drugs from crossing the border.Flight data showed the plane regularly used by the prime minister for travel landed in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday evening, which is the closest airport to Mar-a-Lago.Global News has learned Trudeau is staying overnight in West Palm Beach and will fly back to Canada on Saturday morning. He is not staying at Mar-a-Lago.Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc is also in attendance, Global News has also learned. Story continues below advertisem...

Georgia police use water cannon and pepper spray in Tbilisi as protests continue over suspension of EU membership talks | World News

29Nov

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Georgia police use water cannon and pepper spray in Tbilisi as protests continue over suspension of EU membership talks | World News

Violence has broken out again in Georgia's capital after protesters took to the streets near parliament over the suspension of EU membership talks.Police used water cannon and pepper spray as thousands gathered in Tbilisi to demand the government change its stance. Some protesters hurled fireworks at police and pushed a burning industrial bin towards officers.There were also protests on Thursday after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced accession talks were being put off until 2028 due to EU "blackmail".It followed the European Parliament adopting a resolution condemning last month's election as neither free nor fair and criticising the ruling Georgian Dream party. The party won almost 54% of votes, but opponents claim Russia helped rig the vote to halt the country's move towards th...

Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week, letter shows

29Nov

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Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week, letter shows

Offering Ukraine NATO membership while allowing Russia to keep captured territories could end the "hot stage" of the war, Volodymyr Zelensky told Sky News. Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP By John Irish and Tom Balmforth, Reuters Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels next week to join the Western military alliance, according to the text of a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. The letter reflects Ukraine's renewed push to secure an invitation to join NATO, which is part of a "victory plan" outlined last month by President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war triggered by Russia's 2022 invasion. Zelensky told UK-based Sky News that offering Ukraine NATO membership while allowing Russia to keep for the moment ...

New Mauritius prime minister orders review of Chagos Islands deal with UK | World News

29Nov

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New Mauritius prime minister orders review of Chagos Islands deal with UK | World News

The newly elected prime minister of Mauritius has ordered an independent review of his predecessor's provisional deal with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands.Navin Ramgoolam, who came to power earlier this month, has previously been critical of the confidential agreement, which is yet to be ratified. He reportedly expressed continued reservations after a meeting with the UK's national security adviser Jonathan Powell on Monday over the islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory. Image: Navin Ramgoolam. Pic: Reuters Under the reported terms of the draft deal, the UK will hand over sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius, except for the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, which will remain under...

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, Egypt to host Hamas leaders for ceasefire talks

29Nov

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Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, Egypt to host Hamas leaders for ceasefire talks

Dozens of Palestinians returned to areas where the army had retreated to check on damage to their homes. Photo: AFP / EYAD BABA By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians overnight and on Friday in the Gaza Strip, medics said, as efforts to revive Gaza ceasefire talks received a boost with officials from the Palestinian group Hamas headed to Cairo for a new round of talks. Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave's eight long-standing refugee camps. Later on Friday, an Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, medics said. Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, medics added. There was n...

American football player Medrick Burnett Jr dies a month after head-on-head collision in Alabama game | US News

29Nov

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American football player Medrick Burnett Jr dies a month after head-on-head collision in Alabama game | US News

An American football player has died a month after suffering a head-on-head collision during a college game.Medrick Burnett Jr was playing for Alabama A&M University against Alabama State University on 26 October - the day before his birthday - when the severe injury occurred. His sister said on his GoFundMe page that the 20-year-old linebacker had "several brain bleeds and swelling of the brain" following the collision in Birmingham, a city in the southeastern US state.In a "last resort" to save his life, Dominece James said he'd had a craniotomy - the surgical removal of part of the skull to expose the brain.Alabama A&M athletic department announced his death on Wednesday but later sent a retraction, saying the news had come via "an immediate family member". Jefferson County coro...

29Nov

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Notre Dame rises from the ashes

The baptistery of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet, in Paris on November 29, 2024. Photo: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron praised on Friday (local time) the more than 1000 craftspeople who helped rebuild Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in what he called "the project of the century", five-and-a-half-years after fire gutted the Gothic masterpiece. The 12th-century cathedral, one of the French capital's most beloved and visited monuments, will reopen its doors next week to tourists and to the Catholic faithful. Notre Dame is one of Paris' most beloved monuments. Photo: CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON / AFP "Never before have we seen such a construction site. You all had your share in the project of the century," Macron told a gathering t...

World wine production set for new 60-year low on weather woes

29Nov

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World wine production set for new 60-year low on weather woes

World wine output is on course to hit another 60-year low in 2024. Photo: World wine output is on course to hit another 60-year low in 2024 as vineyards in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres endured adverse weather as they did last year, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said on Friday. In its first global projections for 2024, the OIV pegged world wine output, excluding juices and musts, at between 227 million and 235 million hectolitres (mhl), with a mid-range estimate of 231 mhl. The mid-range figure was 2 percent lower than last year's output and the smallest since 1961, the OIV said. A hectolitre is the equivalent of 133 standard wine bottles. "Globally, 2024 appears to be a re-run of 2023," the OIV said in a note. "As with 2023, extreme or atypical met...

UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying

29Nov

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UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying

By Rob Picheta for CNN Debate over the issue sharply divided lawmakers, many of whom have laboured to choose a side during an unusually strained week in Westminster. Photo: Unsplash/ Marcin Nowak British members of parliament have voted to legalise assisted dying, approving a contentious proposal that would make the United Kingdom one of a small handful of nations to allow terminally ill people to end their lives. Lawmakers in the House of Commons voted by 330 to 275 to support the bill, after an hours-long debate in the chamber and a years-long campaign by high-profile figures that drew on emotional first-hand testimony. Britain is now set to join a small club of nations to have legalised the process, and one of the largest by population to allow it. The bill must still clear the Ho...

Zelenskyy suggests he’s prepared to end Ukraine war in return for NATO membership, even if Russia doesn’t immediately return seized land | World News

29Nov

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Zelenskyy suggests he’s prepared to end Ukraine war in return for NATO membership, even if Russia doesn’t immediately return seized land | World News

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested a ceasefire deal could be struck if Ukrainian territory he controls could be taken "under the NATO umbrella" - allowing him to negotiate the return of the rest later "in a diplomatic way".In an interview with Sky News's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, the Ukrainian president was asked to respond to media reports saying one of US president-elect Donald Trump's plans to end the war might be for Kyiv to cede the land Moscow has taken to Russia in exchange for Ukraine joining NATO. Mr Zelenskyy said NATO membership would have to be offered to unoccupied parts of the country in order to end the "hot phase of the war", as long as the NATO invitation itself recognises Ukraine's internationally recognised borders.He appeared to accept occupied eastern parts of ...