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World food index slips in Oct despite higher cereal prices -FAO

The United Nations food agency's world price index edged slightly lower in October, the seventh consecutive monthly fall and some 14.9% down from its all-time high recorded in March.

Reuters

War fallout and aid demands are overshadowing the climate talks in Egypt

War in Ukraine, rising energy and food prices, and growing enmity between the West on the one hand and Russia and China on the other make finding cooperation at the coming climate talks difficult.

WEKU

UN Report Warns of Irregular Migration from Horn of Africa to Yemen

The Horn of Africa and Yemen is one of the busiest and riskiest migration corridors in the world, traveled by hundreds of thousands of migrants, most of whom cross irregularly, often relying on smugglers to facilitate movement, according to a recent UN report. According to the International Organization of Migration…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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War fallout, aid demands overshadow climate talks in Egypt

Each year there are high hopes for the two-week United Nations climate gathering and, almost inevitably, disappointment when it doesn’t deliver another landmark pact like the one agreed 2015 in Paris

The Independent UK

Zelensky: Russian Strikes Leave 4.5 Million without Power in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia's campaign against Ukraine's energy network has left around 4.5 million people without power. The two sides' forces continued to battle without significant change on the ground on the eastern and southern Ukraine fronts, with preparations building for a fight over the southern…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Conflict, crisis fuel cholera surge across Mideast hot spots

Thousands of cholera cases have swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in recent weeks

The Independent UK

UN nuclear inspectors shut down Russian ‘dirty bomb’ claim against Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says findings are ‘clear and irrefutable’ after IAEA finds no evidence of undeclared nuclear activities and materials

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UN chief warns planet is heading toward `climate chaos'

U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the planet is heading toward irreversible “climate chaos.”

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 254 of the invasion

UN nuclear watchdog finds no sign of undeclared nuclear activity in Ukraine following Russian ‘dirty bomb’ allegations; Kyiv fears Moscow is setting a trap by feigning a pull-out in Kherson

The Guardian - AU

North Korea flies jets, fires artillery near border after U.S. and South extend drills

South Korea said it scrambled warplanes in response to 180 North Korean military flights near the countries' shared border on Friday, and Pyongyang again demanded that the United States and South Korea halt "provocative" air exercises.

Reuters

UN General Assembly rebukes US embargo on Cuba

Resolution condemning embargo on Cuba passes 185-2, marking 30th time the UN has rebuked the decades-old US policy.

Al Jazeera

India abstains from voting on Russia’s resolution on bio-weapons in UNSC

NEW DELHI: India abstained from voting on a resolution brought by Russia in the UN Security Council for a probe into allegations by Moscow that Ukraine and the US are conducting “military biological” activities in Ukraine labs that violate the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

The Times of India

US military donation misuse in Guatemala going unchecked: Report

US government report urges agencies to better track alleged instances of military equipment misuse in Central America.

Al Jazeera

128 scholars ask UN not to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

Leading scholars in anti-Semitism said the IHRA definition ‘hijacked’ to protect Israel from international criticism.

Al Jazeera

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The Conversation

This is what Australia needs to bring to Egypt for COP27

Officials from nearly 200 nations are gathering in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th United Nations climate change conference known as COP27. Multiple global crises threaten to overshadow the summit, but the task at COP27 over the next two weeks is more urgent than ever.

The Conversation

Is child obesity really going to shorten lives?

Rising life expectancy is one of the great success stories. If you were born in 1870, you’d expect to live until you were 30. But if you were born today, you’d expect to live to 72, and the UN predicts it will continue to rise to 82 years by 2100.…

The Times of India

India’s neutrality on Ukraine has been raised with S Jaishankar and PM Narendra Modi since Rishi Sunak became PM

LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak raised India’s neutral position on Ukraine with PM Narendra Modi during their recent phone call, it has emerged. UK foreign secretary James Cleverly also raised the issue “directly” with external affairs minister S Jaishankar on his recent trip to India.

Reuters

Forty countries to unveil methane plans at UN climate summit, U.S. official says

Some forty of the 119 countries that pledged last year to slash emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane will unveil their plans to do so at the UN climate summit next week, according to a senior U.S. official.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

IAEA: No Sign of 'Undeclared Nuclear Activities' in Ukraine

The UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday said its inspectors had found no indications of "undeclared nuclear activities" at three locations in Ukraine during visits requested by Kyiv to address Russia's "dirty bomb" allegations. "Our technical and scientific evaluation of the results we have so far did not show any sign…

The Guardian - UK

Spanish minister urges Sunak to commit to climate crisis fight

Teresa Ribera says she was ‘hugely surprised’ and saddened by PM’s initial refusal to go to Cop27 summit

The Guardian - UK

It may sound paradoxical, but Britain needs to spend its way out of recession

Cutting during a recession has been long discredited, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Newsroom.co.nz

From Africa, with video

How Newsroom will cover the critical climate summit, on the ground in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Reuters

U.S. asks U.N. Security Council to meet Friday on North Korea - diplomats

The United States has asked the U.N. Security Council to meet publicly on North Korea on Friday, diplomats said, after Pyongyang fired multiple missiles, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile.

Radio France Internationale

Nearly eight million at risk of starvation in South Sudan

Three United Nations agencies say up to eight million people in South Sudan could face severe food shortages between now and next year's harvests as a result of floods, drought and conflict.

The Independent UK

Ratcliffe criticises Government for taking ‘long time’ over jailed Sikh blogger

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was in Punjab in northern India for his wedding in 2017 when his family say he was bundled into an unmarked car.

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