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UK to become WHO’s largest state donor with 30% funding increase

Boris Johnson to call for more powers for health body in coronavirus fight as Trump pulls outCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson will announce a 30% increase in the UK’s funding of the World Health Organization, ma…

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China’s surprise climate pledge leaves Australia ‘naked in the wind’, analysts say

Beijing now has a more ambitious long-term climate goal than Australia – and there are fears that could have a dire impact on our economyAustralia’s resistance to a mid-century net zero emissions target is likely to become increasingly unsustainable af…

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Trump attacks China over Covid ‘plague’ as Xi urges collaboration in virus fight

US president uses speech to denounce China, UN and WHOBeijing has ‘no intention to fight a cold war’ – Chinese leaderDonald Trump and Xi Jinping offered starkly contrasting responses to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, with the US president blaming…

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United Nations general assembly: China rejects Trump’s ‘baseless’ Covid accusations – as it happened

Follow live as Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin – among others – deliver video messages 7.36pm BST As Macron epic delivery ends, it also wraps up the opening session of the first virtual UN general assem…

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My country may be swept away by the climate crisis if the rest of the world fails to uphold its promises | President David Kabua

Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writesMy country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in September 1991. But unless my fellow member states take act…

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