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Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan loses genocide appeal

Ruling marks the final decision by the court and ends 16 years of work by the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

Al Jazeera

Lavrov defends Russia at U.N. showdown rife with anger over Ukraine war

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended Moscow's war in Ukraine at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday as the United Nations warned Moscow against annexing Ukrainian regions and Western ministers called for accountability over atrocities.

Reuters

Ukraine war – live: Russia-held territories hold referendum today to break away from Kyiv

UK foreign secretary warns that Vladimir Putin planning to escalate war

The Independent UK

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Drowning island nations: 'This is how a Pacific atoll dies'

Heads of state from Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands have launched a “Rising Nations Initiative” as they race toward solutions to a rising ocean level that will make their countries all but uninhabitable in the coming decades

The Independent UK

Ukraine's Zelenskyy lays out his case against Russia to UN

Ukraine’s president has laid out his case against Russia’s invasion at the United Nations and demanded punishment from world leaders

The Independent UK

GLIMPSES: On fringes of UN perimeter, placards and protests

Inside the grand hall of the United Nations, the world’s leaders are convening this week

The Independent UK

With Ukraine nuke plant in peril, UN tries to broker safety

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says he'll meet with Ukraine’s and Russia’s foreign ministers in a bid to establish a safety and security zone around a nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine that is Europe’s largest

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Cambodia court rejects genocide appeal of last surviving Khmer Rouge leader

Judge upholds conviction of Khieu Samphan, 91, in what is likely to be UN-backed court’s last judgment

The Guardian - UK

$Prime Minister defends possible Tory manifesto breach over fracking ban$

Prime Minister defends possible Tory manifesto breach over fracking ban

The Conservatives in 2019 pledged not to lift England’s moratorium unless fracking was scientifically proven to be safe.

The Independent UK

Australia, New Zealand condemn Putin threats as "unthinkable"

Australia and New Zealand condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying his threats to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia were "unthinkable" and exposed his justification for the war as untrue.

Reuters

Steel plant defenders, Putin ally exchanged in prisoner swap

Ukraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege

The Independent UK

Iran's president dismisses criticism as street protests over women's rights turn deadly

UNITED NATIONS — As street protests in Iran turned increasingly deadly, President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday accused the West of maintaining a double standard on human rights.

Los Angeles Times

Some Russians flee Ukraine conscription as Moscow remains defiant at U.N

Some draft-age Russians rushed to leave the country on Thursday to escape their country's biggest conscription drive since World War Two, as world powers at the United Nations demanded Moscow be held accountable for alleged atrocities in Ukraine.

Reuters

They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words

Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year.

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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky gets standing ovation after UN speech

Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska could be seen smiling as delegates in New York applauded her husband

The Conversation

Putin plays the annexation card, pushing the war in Ukraine into a dangerous new phase

A lot has changed since world leaders last met in person at the United Nations General Assembly: a global pandemic, a looming food crisis, economic stress, climate disasters – and, of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Zelensky calls for ‘punishment’ of Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine

In a pre-recorded speech to the UN general assembly, Zelensky outlined his path to peace

Reuters

Zelenskiy tells U.N: We demand 'just punishment' for Russian crimes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine wanted "just punishment" for a crime Russia had committed against his nation.

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Belfast Live

Hopes Joe Biden set for Belfast as part of UK Good Friday Agreement anniversary tour

The US President is understood to want to mark 25 years since the 1998 peace deal

The Independent UK

We must demonstrate that democracy delivers, Truss to say

The Prime Minister is to tell world leaders in a United Nations speech that they cannot be complacent.

The Independent UK

UK's new leader slams Putin, hails queen in debut UN speech

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of making “saber-rattling threats” to cover his failed invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly

Roll Call

Senate approves treaty that would limit potent greenhouse gases - Roll Call

The Senate voted 69-27 Wednesday to approve the Kigali Amendment, a treaty that would limit highly potent greenhouse gases.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss hits out at Vladimir Putin’s ‘catastrophic’ failure in Ukraine in UN speech

The PM accused Russia’s president of ‘sabre rattling’ over nuclear threats and reservists call up

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: leaders condemn Putin’s nuclear threat, basin plan in peril, mass whale stranding

Thursday: Joe Biden and allied leaders have reacted angrily to Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons. Plus: Brad Pitt’s side career as a sculptor

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