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The sister of murdered UK MP Jo Cox has said the attack on Australian MP Dr Helen Haines could be a moment for Australia to “find common ground” and change the way politics is practised in this country.

“Subsidising fossil fuels is subsidising suicide,” UN chief Antonio Guterres told leaders today (16 October) ahead of next week’s UN biodiversity summit, COP17.

Pope Leo XIV spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, calling for a ceasefire in a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine while recovering in hospital from lung cancer surgery.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on the European Commission to scrutinise Spain’s plan to legalise the status of 600,000 irregular migrants, directly challenging Madrid’s migration policy during the EU leaders’ summit.

Mark Rutte has urged NATO countries to step up military aid to Ukraine – in particular air defences – as Russia continues to pummel Kyiv with hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles every day.

Gijs de Best, President of South Asia, Indochina, CIS and Middle East and Africa at Philip Morris International (PMI), on why tackling illicit trade requires countries to share intelligence, align policy and make sure the rules can be enforced.

A senior UAE official called for stronger Gulf security and defence cooperation on Monday as regional governments backed Saudi Arabia following Houthi missile attacks that killed 14 people at Riyadh’s international airport over the weekend.

At a time when the security and energy landscape in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean is undergoing constant change, Athens and Washington are seeking to further expand the strategic scope of their relationship. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens, for the sixth round of the Greece-US Strategic Dialogue, brought defence, security, energy,…

Pope Leo XIV has praised multilateralism as “the best defence against the desire for dominance” in a speech in the French city of Metz.