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North Korea law allows for nuclear first strike, makes programme 'irreversible'

North Korea has passed a law allowing it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike and declaring its status as a nuclear-armed state "irreversible", state media said Friday.. The law will allow North Korea to carry out a preventive nuclear strike "automatically" and "immediately to destroy hostile forces," when a foreign country poses an imminent threat to Pyongyang, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. 

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 1 mins read
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US Justice Dept appeals freeze on review of seized Trump documents

The US Justice Department said Thursday it was appealing a Florida judge's order to freeze access to thousands of documents, including top secret files, seized from former president Donald Trump's home.. It asked Cannon to set aside her freeze on just over 100 classified documents seized in the August 8 raid on Trump's Florida home and to keep them from the hands of any special master named to examine the seized materials.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 2 mins read
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Risk of climate tipping points escalates at 1.5C warming: study

Failing to achieve the Paris agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C could trigger multiple dangerous "tipping points" where changes to climate systems become self-sustaining, according to a major new study published in Science.. These points are defined as a reinforcing feedback in a climate system that is so strong it becomes self-propelling at a certain threshold -- meaning even if warming stopped, an ice sheet, ocean or rainforest would keep changing to a new state.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 3 mins read
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Elizabeth II: Queen of the world

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was not just Queen Elizabeth II. She was simply The Queen.. - Accident of history - Although Elizabeth Windsor became the very definition of the word, she was not born to be queen. 

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 11 mins read
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Queen Elizabeth II's top quotes

Queen Elizabeth II was one of the most recognisable people on earth, seen often but not always heard from.   . -- The new Queen Elizabeth II speaks in a radio broadcast to mark her coronation in 1953.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 4 mins read
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Key moments in Queen Elizabeth II's reign

Here are some of the key moments defining the reign of Queen Elizabeth II: - 1947: Commonwealth broadcast - As heiress presumptive Princess Elizabeth made a broadcast from Cape Town on her 21st birthday in which she dedicated her life to the service of the Commonwealth. . - 2012: Olympics and Diamond Jubilee - Queen Elizabeth toured every region of Britain ahead of the four-day party in June to mark the jubilee, while other royals made visits across the Commonwealth.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 3 mins read
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Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, died on Thursday.. Diminutive in stature yet an icon of popular culture, she was instantly recognisable in her brightly coloured suits and matching hat, with pearls, gloves and a handbag.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 5 mins read
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Aid halted to Ethiopia's Tigray, UN says, as fighting escalates

Renewed clashes in northern Ethiopia have forced desperately needed aid deliveries to a halt in war-torn Tigray, the United Nations said, as fighting escalated Thursday between Tigrayan rebels and pro-government forces.. A diplomatic source and a foreign source, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said fighting had intensified along Tigray's northern border, with pro-government forces and troops from neighbouring Eritrea -- which backed Ethiopia's army in the early stages of the war -- targeting rebel positions.

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 3 mins read
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India unveils statue to Nazi-allied independence hero

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a statue of an independence hero venerated for taking up arms against the British, but controversial for his collaboration with Nazi Germany's war machine.. The BJP has lionised Bose as an anti-colonial hero while downplaying the influence of Gandhi and inaugural Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, two men whose legacies are closely associated with India's main opposition party. 

Thu, Sep 8, 2022 2 mins read
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