World Leaders pose for a group photo during an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

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Doomsday talk of digging our own graves, but can any of these people save our planet?

World leaders have turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.

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Morrison insists AUKUS pact necessary to ensure regional security

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again back AUKUS after a bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York.

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Another 750 airlifted from Kabul as race to beat deadline tightens

Australia has evacuated another 750 people from chaos in Afghanistan as the United States holds firm on its withdrawal deadline.

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Albanese says approach to China should be 'competition not catastrophe'

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese says a more aggressive China requires the Australian government to take a more subtle approach than talking up conflict.

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Like old times: Biden, 78, meets the Queen, says 'she reminds me of my mother'

US President Joe Biden says Queen Elizabeth reminded him of his mother and that she asked about China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin as they had tea at Windsor Castle.