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Fossil fuel producers must be forced to ‘take back’ carbon, say scientists

Group says forcing polluters to store carbon dioxide underground is needed to help world reach net zero

The Guardian - UK

How did we save the ozone layer?

A UN report has found the Earth’s ozone layer is on course to be healed within the next 40 years. Madeleine Finlay speaks to atmospheric scientist Paul Newman about this momentous achievement and whether it really is the end of the story

The Guardian - UK

Libyan politicians’ pay goes up 40% as election impasse continues

UN special envoys to meet in Washington as figures show Libyan politicians’ salaries rose by more than 40% in 2022

The Guardian - UK

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Australia’s credibility on human rights blighted by laws targeting climate protesters and jailing children, report says

Human Rights Watch calls on government to address its own ‘alarming deficiencies’, including detention of children under 14 and treatment of asylum seekers

The Guardian - AU

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

A leading rights group says widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses

The Independent UK

Fourteen Malian soldiers killed in two militant attacks -army

Fourteen Malian soldiers were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday in two separate attacks in central Mali after their vehicles struck explosive devices, the army said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Haitians seizing on legal path to US rush to secure passport

Hundreds of Haitians are flocking daily to the sole immigration office in Port-au-Prince to secure a passport in hopes they will soon be chosen to live legally in the U.S. under a new immigration plan

The Independent UK

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Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency - Roll Call

The U.S. has ping-ponged between supporting the United Nations Population Fund and pulling its funding altogether.

Roll Call

Honduran environmental defenders shot dead in broad daylight

Aly Domínguez and Jairo Bonilla, co-founders of grassroots resistance group to iron ore mine in Guapinol, murdered in street

The Guardian - US

Australia must not rely on emissions offsets if it is serious about climate crisis, Ian Chubb says

Head of carbon credit system review says absolute emissions cuts must be priority as Albanese government weighs up limits on use of credits

The Guardian - AU

China: ‘Not necessary’ to dwell on Covid deaths

BEIJING: Chinese health officials said on Wednesday it was “not necessary” to dwell on the exact number of Covid deaths in the country, days after the World Health Organization criticised authorities’ approach to tallying the surge in cases there.

Bangkok Post

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Could we see a UK digital pound?

The UK government is laying down the groundwork for a possible national cryptocurrency, or ‘digital pound’.

Evening Standard

Ethiopia's Tigray rebels start disarming under terms of Pretoria peace deal

Tigrayan rebels began handing in their heavy weapons on Wednesday, a crucial element in the peace deal signed with the federal government last November, ending the two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia.

Radio France Internationale

UK's Princess Anne visits British peacekeepers on Cyprus

Britain’s Princess Anne has cast aside the controversy surrounding her nephew Prince Harry and carried on a visit to British soldiers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force on ethnically divided Cyprus

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Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations have fallen by about 30% since 2006. Poaching has driven the decline.

France 24

New executions in Iran: UN says regime weaponising death penalty to frighten public

The UN human rights chief has accused Iran of weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent. The statement follows the execution of four protesters, two of whom were killed last weekend. The UN body says it has information that two more executions are imminent, with more…

The Independent UK

Pakistani PM reports global pledges of $9.7B in flood aid

Pakistan’s prime minister says several countries and international institutions have pledged $9.7 billion to help his country rebuild from record-breaking and deadly flooding

Asharq Al-Awsat

OIC Warns Israel Against Escalating Religious Conflict

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned on Tuesday against any Israeli assault on the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, including constant provocations and abuses and the daily attacks of Israeli occupation authority. Following an extraordinary meeting in Jeddah, the OIC called on the UN Security Council "to assume its…

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US State Department to Revive Palestinian-Israeli Talks

Israel and the countries that signed the Abraham Accords discussed enhancing cooperation in areas, such as security and information sharing, during the Negev Forum Working Group meetings in Abu Dhabi, according to a US official. The Negev Forum Working Groups Meeting began in the presence of about 150 representatives of…

The Independent UK

AP: WHO knew of past sex misconduct claim against doctor

Internal documents obtained by the Associated Press show the World Health Organization knew of past sexual misconduct charges against a doctor who was accused of harassing a woman in the fall

The Conversation

Mountain environments are key to biodiversity – but the threats to them are being ignored

Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, play a key role in maintaining biodiversity in the wider mountain catchment area.

Bangkok Post

Gateways for action on Myanmar crisis

The coup in Myanmar in 2021 brought back to power a junta-based regime and compounded grave violations, adding fuel to a recurrent crisis. A constructive gateway for action in December 2022 was thus the adoption of the UN Security Council (SC) Resolution 2669, the first substantive resolution highlighting urgently needed…

The Independent UK

Political vacuum in Haiti deepens as senators' terms expire

Haiti has been stripped of its last democratically elected institution

ABC News

Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group owned by a key Putin ally are stoking influence in resource-rich Central African Republic

While Vladimir Putin desperately rallies support for his war in Ukraine, a network of paramilitary mercenaries known as the Wagner Group is shoring up his power in resource-rich central Africa, more than 5,000 kilometres away.

Al Jazeera

Canada sanctions ex-Sri Lanka presidents Mahinda, Gotabaya

Sanctions are over human rights violations committed during armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, Canada says.

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