日: 2022-01-27

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Woodside Petroleum to pull out of Myanmar one year on from military coup

Australian fossil fuel giant follows Chevron and Total in exiting the country as military junta’s human rights abuses continueGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesAustralia’s Woo…

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Boris Johnson accused of lying as emails suggest he approved Afghan dog rescue

PM called claims he intervened to help evacuation of animal charity ‘complete nonsense’Boris Johnson’s battered credibility was thrown further into question after new Foreign Office emails appeared to contradict his insistence he did not authorise the …

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‘It’s a joke’: left-behind Afghans despair at dog rescue revelations

Idea that Boris Johnson personally approved animal evacuation adds to hurt, say those who worked with BritishAfghans who worked for the British but were not able to get on flights out of Kabul said the revelation that Boris Johnson appears to have pers…

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‘Delightfully horrific’: wētā motels proliferate as New Zealand falls in love with the giant insect

Small man-made homes for the endangered wētā, which can weigh as much as a sparrow, are popping up in gardens across the countryIn a tiny motel at the back of a Wellington garden, a group of lodgers with shiny cigar-shaped bodies and spiny legs are mak…

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