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Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Sam Dover.----The Prime Minister has announced Kim Williams will be nominated to become the next Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Mr Williams is the ideal leader and shares a life…

Harvard University and student protesters announced on Tuesday that they had negotiated an end to a pro-Palestinian encampment in Harvard Yard, with the university agreeing to discuss student questions about its endowment related to the war in Gaza and to quickly process petitions for the reinstatement of suspended students. The apparently…

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London (AFP) – A UK bill banning the export of livestock for slaughter cleared parliament on Tuesday, with campaigners hailing it as a landmark moment for animal welfare. Issued on: 14/05/2024 - 19:57Modified: 14/05/2024 - 19:55 1 min Activists…

The big headline from President Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods announced Tuesday was the massive hit to electric vehicles made in China.New duties on EVs from companies like BYD (BYDDY), Geely (GELYF), and NIO (NIO) are set to quadruple in 2024, to 100% from 25% of the cost of the vehicle.But the question remains: Will Biden’s EV tariff…

Good evening. A massive manhunt is underway to catch “France’s most wanted man” after two prison officers were killed in an attack leading to his escape. Meanwhile, the first official portrait of the King since the Coronation has been unveiled.Massive manhunt underway in France after armed ambush of prison…

As much as $300 billion in Russian assets, frozen in the West since the invasion of Ukraine, is piling up profits and interest income by the day. Now, Europe and the United States are considering how to use those gains to aid the Ukrainian military as it wages a grueling battle against Russian forces.There has been a debate for months about…

We reported earlier that Putin will visit Beijing this week for talks with China’s Xi Jinping. This will be his first foreign trip since being sworn in for a new six-year term earlier this month. Here is a look at the last five years of the Xi-Putin friendship: 2019: Xi visits ‘best friend’ Xi paid a state visit to Russia in June of 2019, during…

Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday affirmed their mutual belief that the current harmony in their bilateral relations significantly contributes to enhancing stability in the region.Erdogan and Mitsotakis, who arrived in Ankara on a working visit, met "in a spirit of goodwill and…

PHOENIX — A Mississippi homicide suspect died on Monday after a shooting that involved troopers with the Arizona Department of Transportation, authorities said. Ivory James Welch III killed three people on Sunday, according to the Ridgeland Police Department, which is in Mississippi. One of his victims was 76-year-old…