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By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN Donald Trump. File photo Photo: AFP Donald Trump has declared himself the "father of IVF", a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade. It is unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women's issues and had an all-female audience. But he has repeatedly returned to the issue - talking up his support for IVF - on the campaign trail, where he has given a long series of confusing or contradictory answers about his stance on abortion. "We really are the party for IVF," Trump told moderator and Fox News host Harris Faulkner on "The Faulkner Focus." "We want fertilisa...

By Chelsea Bailey and Amanda Musa, CNN Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle listen during a pre-trial hearing on 29 December 1992. Photo: AFP / VINCE BUCCI As the Los Angeles County district attorney weighs new evidence that could see Lyle and Erik Menendez released from prison after more than 30 years, nearly two dozen of their relatives are expected to speak on their behalf at a news conference. In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home. Although they have never denied killing their parents, both men maintained during their trial that they acted in self-defence and suffered years of physical and sexual abuse from their father. Atto...

Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards in London in 2019. Photo: AFP / TOLGA AKMEN By Dan Heching and Manuela Castro, CNN Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. More to come... - CNN Source link

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...

By Sebastian Smith, AFP Kamala Harris has questioned Donald Trump's mental state after the 78-year-old Republican's latest televised town hall veered into a surreal, impromptu music session. "Hope he's okay," the Democratic candidate posted on X. Harris' campaign, which has begun to aggressively challenge Trump on his health and mental stability, said that during the late Monday event he appeared "lost, confused, and frozen on stage". Former president Trump defended the event in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, saying it was "so different". "It was amazing! The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat," Trump posted on his Truth Social network. "We started playing music while we waited, and just kept it going. So different, but it ended u...

Tropical cyclones get energy from very warm ocean water they sit above which needs to be at least 26.5C or higher to form. Photo: The Solomon Islands Meteorological Service Explainer - The South Pacific tropical cyclone season is due to start in November and will run until the last day of April. On average there's nine each season and tropical cyclones can straddle either end of the season, as seen last year with Lola in October. But what actually is a tropical cyclone and what do all the categories mean? Here's everything you need to know. What is a cyclone? New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) describes tropical cyclones as rotating storms, characterised by a low-pressure centre, strong winds, and thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. NIWA meteoro...

By Chris Isidore for CNN A Boeing 737 MAX plane under construction at a factory in Washington state, USA. Photo: Jennifer Buchanan / Pool / AFP Analysis - Cash-starved Boeing, contending with massive financial losses from a crippling strike and years of operational and safety problems, is turning to major banks and Wall Street to raise tens of billions of dollars in cash. In a regulatory filing early Tuesday, the company announced plans to borrow $10 billion (NZ$16.5bn) from a consortium of banks. It also separately announced plans to raise $25 billion by selling stock and debt. The $10 billion borrowing plans would be included in the $25 billion that Boeing filed to raise. The company's debt surged in the last six years as Boeing reported core operating losses of more than $33 billi...