The foreign minister, Winston Peters, who leads a populist party, has refused to back down after telling the member of Parliament to “go back to your own country.”

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The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

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President Trump may have fallen into the same trap that his predecessors did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our chief diplomatic correspondent explains why.

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