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Mali Says No Need to Justify Russia as Partner as Lavrov Visits

Mali's foreign minister said on Tuesday it had no need to justify working with Russia on strengthening its military capabilities and importing oil and wheat, despite Western concerns. Abdoulaye Diop was speaking as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made his first visit to the West African nation, where militants linked…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Deaths surpass 12,000 while Istanbul suspends stock exchange – as it happened

Number of people killed in Turkey and Syria expected to keep rising; energy firm reports ‘massive damage to the infrastructure’

The Guardian - UK

New Zealand pilot taken hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s Papua region

‘We will never release the pilot we are holding hostage unless Indonesia recognizes and frees Papua’

The Independent UK

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‘God, come help us’: Pakistan families still hungry and homeless six months after floods

Forced to endure a ‘humiliating’ life in tent cities, waiting for stagnant waters to recede, villagers say they have been abandoned

The Guardian - UK

UN Envoy in Riyadh, Aden to Discuss Efforts to Resolve Yemen Crisis

United Nations envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg held talks in Riyadh and the interim Yemeni capital, Aden, aimed at reaching a political solution in the war-torn country. In the Saudi capital, he met with the Kingdom’s Ambassador to Yemen and Supervisor General of the Saudi Program for Development and Reconstruction…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afternoon Update: Australians missing after earthquake; church might drop ‘he’ for God; and polluting hybrids

And the end of the Zoom party era

The Guardian - AU

‘A mammoth task’: Joyce Banda on helping Ukraine supply grain to African countries

Ex Malawi president has promised to help Kyiv identify nations that badly need exports as Ukraine tries to counter Russian influence in Africa

The Guardian - UK

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A story for every place, not jobs and growth: Revive reflects global trends in policy – cultural and otherwise

Federal Labor is engaged in urgent reform, making up for the “lost decade” under the Coalition. The Voice, industrial relations, climate change, universities, health, Asian-Pacific diplomacy, research and development are all undergoing significant policy review. We can now add the new National Cultural Policy, dubbed Revive.

The Conversation

Satellite images capture Türkiye's cities before and after the country's devastating earthquakes

Newly released satellite images capturing cities in Türkiye and Syria show widespread devastation as rescue efforts continue after Monday's devastating earthquakes.

ABC News

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Little-noticed US funding for China tech sector now draws scrutiny

Tribune News Service

Unemployment's darkest legacy is that it can pave the way for extremism and terrorism

High unemployment can drag down a country’s economy, but it can also provide kindling to extremist movements.

Fortune

As aid pours into Turkey, Syria, rescuers race to find earthquake survivors

Monday’s magnitude 7.8 quake and a cascade of strong aftershocks cut a swath of destruction that stretched hundreds of miles across southeastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, toppling thousands of buildings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Despite the Taliban's pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan

The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended to increase in areas they have controlled, where local leaders reportedly raise money to fund their operations by…

The Conversation

NATO role in Ukraine threatens ‘unpredictable’ escalation: Russia

Moscow accused NATO of involvement in the war by supplying arms to Kyiv, warning supplies are ‘legitimate targets’.

Al Jazeera

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Rise in space tourism, rocket launches pose new threat to ozone layer, researchers warn

New research shows that increased space travel could undo efforts to repair the hole in the ozone layer. Successful global coordination to ban harmful chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gasses and restore the ozone was a rare climate triumph – but can it be replicated in the face of a potential new threat?

Reuters

Russia asks Pink Floyd's Roger Waters to speak on Ukraine arms at UN

Russia has asked Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to speak to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday at a meeting that Moscow requested to discuss the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war's divisions

Aid workers say getting aid into Syria after this week’s devastating earthquake has been hampered by the country’s deep fragmentation from years of war

Los Angeles Times

Quake deaths pass 7,200 as Turkey, Syria seek survivors

ISTANBUL — As temperatures dipped below freezing, rescue crews raced Tuesday to free those trapped under the thousands of buildings that collapsed in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked southern Turkey and northern Syria, even as the death toll rose past 7,200.

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Los Angeles Times

Crews race to find survivors in Turkey and Syria as quake death toll now exceeds 6,000

Radio France Internationale

Religion is not the driving force behind recruitment to jihadist groups says UN

Poverty and the prospect of better-paid work, rather than ideology, are what fuel recruitment to jihadist and other violent groups in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Reuters

U.N. concerned over Cameroon press safety after second journalist killed

The United Nations on Tuesday said it was concerned about the safety of journalists in Cameroon after a radio presenter was killed last week, days after the murder of another journalist that shook the central African nation.

Al Jazeera

‘Ambiguous by design’: What’s in the Kosovo-Serbia deal?

Proposed settlement is focused on conflict avoidance rather than achieving lasting peace, analysts say.

Reuters

Syrians abroad fear political rifts will stop aid reaching quake victims

Syrians living abroad who want to help victims of the earthquake which has killed thousands of people in the region say they are worried that donations will not reach those who need it due to deep political divisions in the war-torn country.

The Independent UK

20,000 feared dead in earthquake carnage as rescuers race against time to save trapped victims

Around 23m lives – including those of 1.4m children – blighted by the disaster, says the World Health Organisation

Reuters

Anguish and scuffles as rescuers struggle to reach Turkey quake victims

Rescue workers in quake-devastated Turkey and northern Syria struggled on Tuesday to reach some of the worst-hit areas, held back by destroyed roads, poor weather and a lack of resources and heavy equipment and confronted by angry survivors.

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