World News: 05 May 2023

'Enough is enough': Australian PM urges US to drop Julian Assange pursuit
Mr Albanese said he had already made his position “very clear” to the Biden administration and they were well aware of the Australian government’s views on the extradition proceedings.
The United States’ Department of Justice is seeking to extradite Assange to face trial on 17 counts of breaching the Espionage Act and a hacking-related charge, after the Australian published thousands of classified documents belonging to the US government.

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Norwegian climber becomes fastest woman to summit all 8000m mountains
Kristin Harila beat the previous record set by a Spanish climber, but now she is aiming to climb all 14 peaks much faster, in just one season. Norwegian climber Kristin Harila became the fastest woman to climb all mountains above 8000 metres this week, summiting Cho Oyu – the last remaining mountain on her list.

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Kanye West Yeezy loss is hurting us, admits Adidas
The sportswear giant cut its ties with the designer and rapper, known as Ye, late last year after he posted anti-Semitic comments on social media.
West designed trainers under the Yeezy brand and Adidas said the loss of the business cut sales by €400m (£350m) in the first quarter of the year. Overall, total revenue fell by 1%.

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UK and Rwanda leading the way in global migration, said British PM
The UK has agreed a multimillion-pound partnership with Rwanda designed to tackle the number of small migrant boats sailing to Britain on unauthorised routes. The £140 million deal will see some migrants who enter unlawfully by the English Channel sent to Kigali if they cannot be deported to their home country.

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India meets with China, Russia before Central Asia forum
Russia and China founded the SCO in 2001 as a counterweight to U.S. alliances across East Asia to the Indian Ocean. The group includes the four Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which Russia considers its backyard. In 2017, India and Pakistan became members and Iran is set to join later this year.

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Africa faces ‘permanent decline’ if China-West tensions rise
The IMF has warned that sub-Saharan Africa could experience “permanent economic decline” if the world were split into two isolated trading blocs centred around China and the United States and European Union.
In this “severe scenario”, says the Fund’s analytical note, sub-Saharan African economies could experience a permanent decline of up to 4% of real gross domestic product after 10 years according to estimates – losses larger than what many countries experienced during the Global Financial Crisis.

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