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"The Treaty officially came into force on 17 January 2026, following nearly two decades of discussion and negotiation. It delivers the world’s first comprehensive legal framework to protect ocean life across the High Seas – an area covering nearly half the planet’s surface – and offers a critical tool in addressing the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution."

Doctors in Saudi Arabia say a complex operation to separate 13-month-old Fijian conjoined twins has been successful.

In what was described as an “exceptionally rare” case, the sisters, Dicecea and Jesepeli Kikau, were born joined at the lower abdomen and pelvis.

It is a condition known as omphalo-ischiopagus tetrapus.

The girls had their own hearts and lungs and required an almost 13-hour operation to separate their liver, bowel, urinary tract and anal canal.

As the procedure reached a critical stage on Thursday night, local time, doctors announced they had successfully separated the pair and were starting on their reconstruction.

In 1984, 86% of Indonesians lived on less than $3 per day. By 2025, this had fallen to less than 4%... The number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen from 140 million to about 10 million.

"The Bulgarian parliament passed a law on Wednesday aiming to better protect journalists, activists and others from abusive lawsuits designed to censor or intimidate critics.

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While the reform implements a European directive from 2024, which requires member states to protect journalists from abusive cross-border lawsuits within the bloc, Bulgaria has also chosen to extend the safeguards to purely domestic cases."