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United States President Jimmy Carter holds a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on 4 August 1980. Photo: AFP / File Fifteen days after turning 100, former US president Jimmy Carter cast his vote in the US election, fulfilling an earlier declared wish to live long enough to back Kamala Harris in the poll. The former Democratic leader "voted by mail," according to the Carter Center, the non-profit he founded after he left the White House in 1981 to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. The centenarian - who left office under a cloud of unpopularity, but has seen his star rise ever since - took advantage of early voting in his home state of Georgia, where he is receiving hospice care. Carter had told his family earlier this year that living long enough t...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference on 14 October 2024, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats, including the country's ambassador. Photo: AFP / DAVE CHAN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says India made "a horrific mistake" by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada's sovereignty. Trudeau made the remark two days after Canada kicked out six Indian diplomats, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in the country. The Canadian leader's comments were the strongest he has made in a year-long dispute that plunged bilateral relations to a new low. "The Indian government made a horrific mistake in thinki...

By Michelle Nichols, Reuters The UN has long complained of obstacles to getting aid into Gaza. Photo: BASHAR TALEB/AFP The United States is watching to ensure that Israel's actions on the ground show that it does not have a "policy of starvation" in the northern Gaza Strip, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Security Council. She told the 15-member council that such a policy would be "horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US law." "The Government of Israel has said that this is not their policy, that food and other essential supplies will not be cut off, and we will be watching to see that Israel's actions on the ground match this statement," Thomas-Greenfield said, in a ratcheting up of the US posture toward its longt...

Dame Jacinda Ardern at Windsor Castle, west of London. Photo: ANDREW MATTHEWS/Pool/AFP Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was officially made a Dame in a ceremony in the UK. She was appointed a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for her services to the state, a few months after her shock resignation as prime minister. Last week it was announced she would formally receive her damehood from Prince William at a ceremony in Windsor Castle in London. In a social media post, Prince William and wife Kate called her a friend, an extraordinary advocate, and now a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the State. "It was a privilege to present you with this deserved award at Windsor today!" he wrote In a vi...