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Watch: High Commissioner for Human Rights briefs council on situation in Palestine

Watch as Volker Turk, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The Independent UK

Spanish bureaucracy leaves Ukrainians waiting for cash help

Thousands of Ukrainians who fled to Spain after Russia invaded their country last year are still waiting for promised payments of 400 euros ($425) a month

The Independent UK

UN: Myanmar junta ‘at war with country’s own people’

Myanmar's military rulers now see civilians as their adversaries and are making war on the country’s own people, undermining the basic ability to live, the United Nations said on Friday.

Bangkok Post

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Scotland becomes first country to stop hospitals using climate-damaging anaesthetic

Hospitals in Scotland will no longer use desflurane for surgery - which has a global warming potential 2500 times higher than carbon dioxide.

Daily Record

Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?

Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina.

The Conversation

5 things to know about Moldova and Transnistria – and why Russia's war in Ukraine is threatening their security, too

Tensions continue to mount between Russia and Moldova – a small country bordering on southwestern Ukraine that is seeking European Union membership. Moldova is also home to a breakaway region called Transnistria that has strong Russian ties, landing both places in the crosshairs of the war in Ukraine.

The Conversation

World Wildlife Day: UN celebration of animals and plants on 50th anniversary of CITES

The UN and CITES recently pledged to reduce the extinction rate tenfold.

Evening Standard

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Crucial high seas treaty stuck over sharing of genetic resources

Delegates deplore ‘insensitivity and privilege’ of developed nations as negotiators disagree over who should benefit from marine discoveries

The Guardian - UK

Lavrov says Russia will ‘no longer rely’ on West for energy trade as Moscow pivots to India and China

Russia and China ‘wanted to include Nord Stream sabotage issue in G20 communique’

The Independent UK

Roger Waters reveals first music from re-recorded solo Dark Side of the Moon

Controversial former bandleader says he wanted to ‘re-address the political and emotional message’ of album that turns 50 years old this week

The Guardian - UK

World Water Day: What is it and how can you take part?

Campaigners want people to ‘step up’ and be the ‘change they want to see in the world’.

Evening Standard

Guterres Calls on Erbil, Baghdad to Find Concrete Agreements on ‘Pressing Issues’

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed on Thursday the UN’s support for Iraq's efforts to return people displaced by years of conflict. Guterres and a delegation including Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq Jeanine-Plasschaert visited the Nineveh Governorate, said the media office of National Security…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt Looks Forward to Boosting Water Management Cooperation with the Netherlands

Egypt looks forward to strengthening cooperation with the Netherlands in water management and agriculture, two crucial sectors with promising opportunities for both countries. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry briefed his Dutch counterpart, Wopke Hoekstra, on the latest Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue developments, clarifying his country's vision. Ethiopia is in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinians Demand Arrest of Israeli Official Visiting Washington

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Thursday asked Washington to arrest a visiting Israeli official who called for wiping out the Palestinian village of Huwara. “The Foreign Ministry demands the US administration to arrest the fascist terrorist Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy head of the Shomron Regional Council, who is currently…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The Independent UK

Quad FMs, wary of China's might, push Indo-Pacific option

The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States say their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at China, but their latest words reflect growing unease over China's influence in the region

The Independent UK

UN rights group says Nicaragua executed 40 people

A U.N. human rights groups said the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega executed at least 40 people and ordered hospitals not to treat demonstrators wounded in antigovernment protests

Al Jazeera

Argentina to renew push for sovereignty over Falkland Islands

The South American country hopes to bring the question of the islands’ disputed sovereignty before the United Nations.

The Guardian - AU

Australia joins Quad countries to launch new counter-terror talks – as it happened

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Leetona has relived her son's final moments for years — an inquiry left her with more questions than answers

David Dungay Jr died while being restrained by corrective officers in a cell at Long Bay Prison Hospital in 2015 — now his family is trying to help others navigate NSW's "overburdened" coronial system.

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Five noteworthy presidential candidates have declared for 2024, nine fewer than this point in the 2020 cycle

Two noteworthy candidates recently entered the race for president of the United States: entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy (R), and author and 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (D).

Al Jazeera

Libya approves constitutional changes in move towards elections

UN envoy has described the amendment as ‘controversial within the Libyan political class and general citizenry’.

Asharq Al-Awsat

France: Iran Uranium Enrichment 'Very Concerning'

France on Thursday called developments in Iran's nuclear program "very concerning" after the UN nuclear watchdog reported finding uranium particles enriched just under the 90 percent needed for an atomic bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report described inspectors discovering on Jan. 21 that two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges…

Newsroom.co.nz

Surprise! Farmers can be the new heroes of climate mitigation

A dollar spent wisely on mitigation brings transformational economic benefits. So we can justify investing in both mitigation and adaptation, as China, India and many other countries are doing. Humanity can still, just, prevent catastrophic climate change if each country shoulders its share of climate responsibility.

The Independent UK

UN nuclear watchdog head to go to Iran for high-level talks

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that its director-general will travel to Tehran for high-level meetings at the invitation of Iran’s government

Chicago Sun-Times

In Haiti’s heart of gang war, one hospital stands its ground

As gangs tighten their grip on Haiti, many medical facilities in the Caribbean nation’s most violent areas have closed, leaving Fontaine Hospital Center one of the last hospitals in one of the world’s most lawless places.

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