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Three more insurance companies including Tokio Marine have left a United Nations-backed net-zero climate alliance, leaving the group with about half the number of members it counted two months ago as insurers take fright at political pressure from some Republican politicians · ‘last resort:’ government faces legal action to force repatriation of Australians from Syrian refugee camps · Australia's 'misery index' up 220 per cent in a year due to rate rises, inflation · new evidence suggests Russia deliberately targeting schools in Ukraine · Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern New South Wales is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015 · popular pub in Adelaide under fire for offering free drinks to woman based on their bra size: 'the bigger the better.'