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  UN talks offer helping hand to people uprooted by climate change

  Reuters . Katowice, Poland | Updated at 12:27am on December 10, 2018

  When indigenous groups from around the world met in Alaska in October, they sounded the alarm on how their homelands, cultures and livelihoods were threatened...

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  Thousands dressed as Santa Claus race through Madrid for charity

  Reuters . Madrid | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2018

  More than 7,000 people dressed as Santa Claus ran through central Madrid on Sunday in a charity race to raise money for cancer care....

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  May says Brexit deal defeat could topple govt

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2018

  Prime minister Theresa May warned on Sunday that parliament’s rejection of her Brexit deal could leave Britain in the European Union and bring the opposition...

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  Fresh ‘yellow vest’ protests hit France

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2018

  Calls mounted Sunday for president Emmanuel Macron to bring an end to the ‘yellow vest’ crisis gripping France as authorities in Paris and elsewhere counted...

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  Over 1,700 arrested in latest ‘yellow vest’ protests in France

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:52am on December 09, 2018

  More than 1,700 people were arrested across France during the latest ‘yellow vest’ protests as demonstrators clashing with riot police caused more...

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  Merkel gets boost with ally’s party win

  Agence France-Presse . Hamburg | Updated at 02:33am on December 09, 2018

  The victory in a party leadership battle of a close ally of Angela Merkel greatly boosts her chances of seeing out her fourth term, but...

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  UN climate negotiators sweat over detail as deadline looms

  Reuters . Katowice, Poland | Updated at 12:51am on December 09, 2018

  Half-way through crucial talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share out the cost of curbing global warming...

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  Six, mostly teens, killed in Italy nightclub stampede

  Reuters . Rome | Updated at 11:36am on December 08, 2018

  Six people died in a stampede at a nightclub near Ancona in central Italy after panic erupted in the early hours of Saturday morning, fire...

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  Tear gas, mass arrests as new ‘yellow vest’ protests hit Paris

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 11:10am on December 08, 2018

  Police fired tear gas and arrested hundreds of people in Paris on Saturday as the French capital went on lockdown for the latest ‘yellow vest’...

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  Merkel’s party votes for new leader

  Reuters . Hamburg | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2018

  Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats vote on Friday to decide who replaces her as party leader and moves into pole position to succeed her as German...