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Eritrea and Ethiopia share a border and tension between the two neighbours has been fraught for decades.

The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.

Will confrontational activism and fraught debate become the new norm at a diplomatic climate conference?

Canada has acknowledged its fraught history with its indigenous peoples in recent years.

And yet this had been a fraught process for Lau-Lavie, an Israel-born gay man who just a few years before entering New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary had been a pillar of a “God-optional” community.