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Congo president says unrest in east could disrupt elections

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi said on Monday that a conflict with rebels in the east of the country could disrupt preparations for general elections scheduled for Dec. 20.

Reuters

Iran Says Nuclear Watchdog Chief to Visit in ‘Coming Days’

Iran said Monday the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, will visit Tehran “in the coming days,” amid a row over uranium enrichment levels in the country. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said earlier this month it was in discussions with Tehran after Bloomberg News reported…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden administration under pressure as Israel-Palestine violence escalates

Advent of Israel’s most right-wing government, and spiralling violence, expose dangers of light-touch diplomacy

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Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness heads to Haiti as gang wars threaten health care

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness is making a one-day visit to Haiti on Monday along with government ministers and ambassadors from two other Caribbean countries as part of a long-awaited visit to see how Caribbean leaders can help Haitians find their way out of their gang-ridden country’s crisis, which has…

Miami Herald

First Thing: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster

Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason. Plus, what should New York do with its billion-dollar weed mountain?

The Guardian - UK

UN Libya Envoy to Launch New Effort to Break Stalemate

The UN Libya envoy will launch a new initiative to enable elections this year with the formation of a high-level steering committee, he said on Monday, attempting to break a year-long stalemate that has risked renewed conflict. Addressing the UN Security Council, Abdoulaye Bathily said the panel would bring together…

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UN Libya envoy to launch new effort to break stalemate

The U.N. Libya envoy will launch a new initiative to enable elections this year with the formation of a high-level steering committee, he said on Monday, attempting to break a year-long stalemate that has risked renewed conflict.

Reuters

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London hospital takes down artwork by Gaza schoolchildren after complaint

Pro-Israel group objected to display saying it made Jewish patients feel ‘vulnerable, harassed and victimised’

The Guardian - UK

Jimmy Carter's final foe: A parasitic worm that preyed on millions in Africa and Asia

ATLANTA — Just a few hours before President Jimmy Carter underwent his first radiation treatment for brain cancer, he spoke of his hope, in the time he had left, to purge the world of a parasitic worm disease.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine gets support from Saudis with $400 million aid deal

Saudi Arabia signed agreements worth $400 million with Ukraine on Sunday after the kingdom’s foreign minister made a surprise visit to Kyiv, a move praised by Washington.

Tribune News Service

UN chief points to ' massive' rights violations in Ukraine

The head of the United Nations says Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered “the most massive violations of human rights” in the world today

The Independent UK

UN seeks $4.3 billion to cover Yemen 2023 humanitarian needs

The United Nations is seeking $4.3 billion at a pledging conference in Geneva to alleviate the suffering of millions of people in Yemen

The Independent UK

UN chief slams 'climate-wrecking' firms at human rights body

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is stressing the importance of legal challenges against “climate-wrecking corporations” like fossil-fuel producers

The Independent UK

U.N. humanitarian flights suspended in Congo's North-Kivu and Ituri provinces, WFP says

The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) suspended flights in Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces following an attack on one of the service's helicopters last week, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.

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Al Jazeera

UN seeks $4.3bn in aid for war-torn Yemen

The appeal comes before a donors conference to raise funds to support millions in need of aid after eight years of war.

The Independent UK

'An absurdity': Experts slam WHO's excusal of misconduct

Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo have dismissed the U_N_ agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity.”

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Toxic Smog: Iran Criticized for Winter ‘Air Pollution Catastrophe’

In Iran this winter, hospital emergency rooms have been full, schools regularly closed, and many people unable to work or even leave their homes due to toxic smog, which a leading United Nations expert is calling an "air pollution catastrophe". Dirty air is a chronic problem in Iran. Many of…

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CIA Chief: Iran Could Enrich Uranium to Weapons-grade within Weeks

CIA director William Burns warned on Sunday that Iran could enrich uranium within weeks to 90 percent, the quantity it needs for a nuclear weapon. He added that in terms of its missile systems, Iran’s ability to deliver a nuclear weapon, once developed, has also been advancing as well. In…

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Treasury Secretary Yellen on surprise visit to Kyiv to reaffirm US support

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Kyiv on a surprise visit to highlight US economic support on Monday as a deadly Russian drone attack targeted the western Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi. The UN Human Rights Council convened for its annual session in Geneva as the UN chief warned that…

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UN Appeals for $4.3 Bn to Help Millions in War-torn Yemen

The United Nations said it needed $4.3 billion this year to help millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen, ahead of a donors' conference on Monday. Aid agencies need the money to help more than 17 million people in the country, which has been devastated by an eight-year civil war, said…

The Guardian - AU

US ‘will stand with Ukraine as long as it takes’, says Treasury secretary on visit to Kyiv – as it happened

Janet Yellen, on surprise visit to Ukrainian capital, says US and allies discussing strategies to ensure Russia pays for devastation of war

Reuters

'Massive' violations in Ukraine a focus as UN human rights body meets

The U.N. rights chief condemned Russia's "senseless" invasion of Ukraine on Monday at the start of a Human Rights Council session at which countries want to strengthen scrutiny of Moscow's alleged war crimes and raise China's treatment of Muslim Uyghurs.

The Guardian - UK

Burned, suffocated, beaten: why women in Lebanon are dying at the hands of their partners

Amid economic crisis and a culture of ‘militarised masculinity’, domestic violence is on the rise in Lebanese households and the sizeable Syrian refugee community

Reuters

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya

When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq: Levels of Tigris and Euphrates Plunge in South

Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages. In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the…

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