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Paralympics Australia announces new plan for Para-sport to Brisbane 2032 and beyond, urging fairness and increased funding

Australia's Paralympic sporting chiefs lay out their blueprint for the next 10 years — but the plan comes with a warning not to repeat the mistakes of Sydney 2000, where Para-sport missed out on increased levels of funding.

ABC News

US firm to bid to turn DRC oil permits in Virunga park into conservation projects

Exclusive: company plans to sell carbon and biodiversity credits in endangered gorilla habitat and Congo basin rainforest as alternative to drilling for fossil fuels

The Guardian - UK

IAEA: Iran has Uranium Particles Enriched to Nearly Bomb Grade

The UN nuclear watchdog is in discussions with Iran on the origin of uranium particles enriched to up to 83.7% purity, very close to weapons grade, at its Fordow enrichment plant, a report by the watchdog seen by Reuters confirmed on Tuesday. Diplomats said last week that the agency had…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Ex-UN official: Haitians must be part of solution to chaos

Award-winning Haitian broadcaster Michele Montas, who was exiled three times and served as spokesperson for the former United Nations secretary-general, follows the chaos in her country every day from her apartment in New York

The Independent UK

International concern as conflict grows in breakaway Somaliland

Six countries issue joint statement over clashes around town of Lascanood between Somaliland and local clan forces.

Al Jazeera

Govt earmarks $26m for national LGBTQI research"

Days after Anthony Albanese became the first Australian PM to march at the gay Mardi Gras, $26m has been promised for medical research for LGBTQI communities.

AAP

Two trendy diets hailed by celebs found to be the 'worst ways' to lose weight

Both diets have become popular in recent years, especially among the rich and famous, but a study has explained why they shouldn't be followed.

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Nigeria's ruling party looks on track to win presidential elections

Nigeria's ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu appears to have an unassailable lead in the presidential elections, but calls for a re-run continue to mount amidst concerns of vote rigging. Also in this edition: we speak to the UN about how to improve maternal death rates. Finally, Gabon prepares to host…

France 24

UN slams Russia but war slogs on

Now a year after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia's brutal war against a sovereign country. With a thumping majority of 141 in favour, only 7 against and 32 abstentions, the assembly again issued a non-binding resolution demanding Russia's military withdrawal from…

Bangkok Post

UN says at least 50,000 killed in Turkey and Syria quakes

The devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless

The Independent UK

Sanctions rarely work, but are they still the least worst option?

How do we encourage states – or more specifically the people who run them – to behave well, or at least not badly?

The Conversation

'Accountability and justice': Gathering digital evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

As the UN Human Rights Council meets to discuss expanding its investigation into war crimes committed in Ukraine, individuals and organisations are gathering their own digital evidence of human rights violations. Social media posts, satellite imagery and online videos are some of the images being used to create a digital…

France 24

UN opens the door to researching how to reflect sunlight back into space

Solar geoengineering could be dangerous to the climate and life on earth, but we may not be able to do without it.

Fortune

Putin may never come to trial, so let’s help Ukraine act on Russian war crimes now

Letters: Russian forces are covering up unspeakable acts. The UK has evidence – and we should share it immediately, says Prof Brad Blitz. Plus Russell Inglis on a jurisdictional loophole that applies to the UK as well as the US

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We need to talk about solar geoengineering

Reflecting sunlight could go horribly wrong, but we may get desperate enough to try it.

Reuters

80 Afghan citizens dead in Italian shipwreck - Taliban foreign ministry

Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Urges UN and Türkiye to Start Talks to Extend Grain Deal

Ukraine has sent an appeal to the UN and Türkiye to start negotiations on extending a grain export deal, but there has been no response, a Ukrainian government source said on Tuesday. Yuriy Vaskov, Ukraine's deputy minister of restoration, told Reuters last week that Kyiv would ask all sides to…

The Independent UK

Alleged higher Iran enrichment worries Germany, Israel

Germany's foreign minister says her country and Israel are worried about an accusation attributed to international inspectors that Iran enriched uranium to 84% purity

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Axios

Scientists want near moratorium on geoengineering to cool climate — for now

A UN report and a warning from scientists comes amid tests from new geoengineering companies.

Al Jazeera

‘Everywhere they go, the Rohingya are exploited’

Kaamil Ahmed, a British journalist, on his new book about the Rohingya’s extraordinary suffering.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cyprus' New President Says Country on Firm Western Footing

Cyprus' new president affirmed the island nation's Western foreign policy orientation as a member of the European Union that seeks to further strengthen its bonds with the US and stands firmly with others on “the side of justice” to condemn Russia's war in Ukraine. Speaking after taking his oath of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran’s FM Accuses the West of ‘Inciting Unrest’

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has accused Western countries of “inciting” unrest in Iran. In a speech before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Amir-Abdollahian defended the Iranian authorities’ handling of the protests that erupted last September following the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was…

Al Jazeera

Rights group, UN experts express concern over Bahrain arrests

HRW says Manama still committing widespread rights violations as it seeks to ‘display image of reform and tolerance’.

WEKU

How Russia is losing — and winning — the information war in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is also playing out online, where Russia is using propaganda, fake accounts, and manipulated videos and images to deflect blame and undermine support for Ukraine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mystery Shrouds Fate of UN Plan for Unloading FSO Safer

Mystery shrouds the fate of FSO Safer, an aging oil tanker moored off the west coast of Yemen, after a UN plan to transfer around 1.1 million barrels of crude oil onboard the derelict vessel to a new tanker faltered due to a lack of funding. The FSO Safer, owned…

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