Australia must prepare for future shaped by extreme climate, bushfire royal commission report warns
Report into the apocalyptic 2019-20 bushfires says Australia must radically change its approach to fighting fires under new climate conditions
Australia’s bushfire disaster last summer was just a glimpse of what global heating will deliver to the country in the future, with major changes needed to the way the nation responds, according to the final report of the royal commission.
The royal commission has made 80 recommendations, including calls for a more co-ordinated approach and new legislation to allow the prime minister to declare a national state of emergency.
The wide-reaching recommendations cut across national and state-based responses, and say there needs to be standardised and consistent approaches. A national cabinet approach is also recommended.
Greece-Turkey earthquake: Huge 7.0-magnitude tremor felt across both countries
Turkish health minister says at least four people killed following major earthquake
A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake has rattled Greece's Dodecanese Islands, the US Geological Survey (USGC) has said, with the tremor felt miles away in the capital of Athens.
Initial estimates by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) put the magnitude of the earthquake, which struck north of the eastern island of Samos at around 11:50 GMT, at 6.7.
Turkey’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said on Friday that four people had died in the incident, while video footage on social media showed buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir had been seriously damaged.
Warring sides in face-to-face talks over Karabakh
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday sat down for talks in Geneva as mediators pressed ahead with a new effort to negotiate a ceasefire over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov "began a meeting" in Geneva, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry in Yerevan told AFP.
Speaking to reporters late Thursday, the spokeswoman, Anna Naghdalyan, said securing a ceasefire and the introduction of verification mechanisms were a priority.
Terror in France reignites a national debate on the right to offend
Updated 1147 GMT (1947 HKT) October 30, 2020
For the second time in as many weeks, France is reeling from the devastation of a brutal knife attack that authorities are ascribing to an Islamist terrorist.
Qatar refers officials behind women exams to prosecutors
Qatar has referred several officials who were behind the forced and invasive physical examinations of female passengers at Hamad International Airport to prosecutors, saying “standard procedures were violated”, according to a government statement.
The incident on October 2 saw airport staff take women off several planes to examine them to check whether they were the mother of an abandoned baby.
U.S. judge delays extradition of 2 men accused of helping Ghosn escape from Japan
A federal judge on Thursday granted a last-minute request to stop the U.S. government from turning over to Japan two men accused of helping smuggle former Nissan Motor Co Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was awaiting trial on financial crimes.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston granted a request by lawyers for U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, to delay the transfer shortly before the two men were set to be placed on a flight to Japan.
The State Department informed them Wednesday it had approved Japan's extradition request. Talwani put on hold their transfer while she reviewed the Taylors' emergency petition challenging that decision.
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