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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese met with Sir Keir Starmer for first time in Samoa

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese met with Sir Keir Starmer for the first time in Samoa.

King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Some leaders had hoped Charles might use his speech at Chogm in Samoa as an opportunity to apologise for Britain’s colonial past

Charles gave his first speech to the Commonwealth’s biennial summit amid growing momentum for a debate about slavery reparations.

The prime ministers of Australian and the UK have pledged greater investment in green hydrogen and offshore wind during their first meeting in Samoa.

Prime minister trying to secure tournament’s future at Commonwealth summit in Samoa

It will be the first time Charles will address the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as its head.

Ouch.

Charles will address presidents and prime ministers when he launches the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa on Friday.

A confrontation for Britain over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade appears increasingly likely to feature at a summit of nations its empire once colonized, after Caribbean leaders said they would thrust the matter of financial reparations into the spotlight at the event in Samoa