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Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future | Oceans newsthirst.

In a high emissions future, the world’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050, further accelerating Antarctic ice sheet melting and sea level rise, an Australian-led study has found. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current – a clockwise current more than four times stronger than the Gulf Stream that links the Atlantic, Pacific and…

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China likely to target US agriculture, state media reports, as Trump tariff deadline nears | China newsthirst.

China is preparing countermeasures against fresh US import tariffs that are set to take effect on Tuesday, China’s state-backed Global Times reported, with American agricultural exports likely to be targeted. Donald Trump last week threatened China with an extra 10% duty, resulting in a cumulative 20% tariff, while accusing Beijing of not having done enough…

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‘Gandalf’ accused of selling illegal medicinal cannabis in New Zealand | New Zealand newsthirst.

Police have shut down the alleged medicinal cannabis operation of one of New Zealand’s most renowned “green fairies”, prompting an outpouring of support from a prominent politician and the hundreds of people who rely on such products to ease their pain. Police raided the rural Northland property of 66-year-old Paul Smith – more widely known…

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Ocean rower Aurimas Mockus stranded by cyclone off Australia’s east coast safely rescued | Australia news newsthirst.

A Lithuanian rower has been rescued off the Queensland coast after he was caught in a tropical cyclone’s 130km/h winds and monster waves. Aurimas Mockus ran into trouble about 740km east of Mackay while attempting a 12,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from San Diego to Brisbane in his solo rowing boat. HMAS Choules, a 16,000-tonne Royal…

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US tariffs on Canada and Mexico coming Tuesday but may not be 25%, commerce chief says | Trump administration newsthirst.

Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said on Sunday that US tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Tuesday, but the president would determine whether to stick with the planned 25% level. “That is a fluid situation,” Lutnick told the Fox News program Sunday Morning Futures. “There are going to be tariffs…

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Starmer’s call for ‘coalition of the willing’ sends reminder to US | Foreign policy newsthirst.

Few resonant phrases are repeated in politics without a deliberate reason, and Keir Starmer’s use of “coalition of the willing” on Sunday could well have been intended as a reminder to the US diplomatic and defence community: we helped you out; now return the favour. The most famous, or infamous, coalition of the willing was…

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