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The US constitution, for all its virtues, has huge gaps on what happens when election results are close or chaotic.

Nearly 1 million New Zealanders live overseas – the vast majority in Australia – but only a tiny fraction usually vote.

If only Australian election debates had this much substance. Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins clashed, and agreed, on much during a spirited New Zealand election debate.

The industrial action has ranged from non-union workers at a meat processing plant and fast-food restaurant workers to academics walking out of universities.

Australia’s former top climate diplomat has warned China’s net-zero emissions target will leave Australia behind, threatening future trade deals and its influence in the Pacific.

“It sent a depressing image of the United States,” one European analyst said, while in China the debate was compared to a quarrel at a vegetable market.

The 79-year-old Pell arrived at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on a flight from Sydney wearing a blue surgical mask.

The anonymous witnesses claimed there was a plot to kidnap and poison Assange and detailed a widespread surveillance operation inside the Ecuadorian embassy.

The US President appeared most annoyed by the suggestion that he is not as wealthy and successful as he claims to be.