Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations. It means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will effectively own itself, with representatives of the local tribes, iwi, and government working together to manage it. The agreement

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Washington CNN  —  Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday from Democrats as well as several Republican senators in what amounted to the most direct skepticism from GOP senators over Trump’s nominees to date. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to be Health and Human

France on Thursday called on Rwandan forces and Kigali-backed M23 rebels to withdraw from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It comes days after M23 claimed control over the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Congo’s sovereignty ‘not negotiable’ — France Paris reiterated its condemnation of the M23 offensive in Congo. “The sovereignty and territorial