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Ukraine news - live: Russia ramps up energy war with gas pipeline shutdown

Extended closure threatens widespread blackouts across Europe

The Independent UK

UN report on Xinjiang abuses leaves no room for plausible deniability

The Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the province of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, says a long-awaited report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Conversation

N. Korea calls UN monitor on its rights issue 'puppet' of US

North Korea has called the U.N.’s top expert on the country’s human rights situation “a puppet” of the United States

The Independent UK

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N.Korea denounces new U.N. human rights expert as 'biased'

North Korea's foreign ministry criticised a new United Nations human rights expert as "biased", saying the country will not tolerate what it called U.S.-led efforts to topple the isolated regime, state media KCNA reported on Friday.

Reuters

France: UN will approve Senegal's Bathily as Libya UN envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has nominated Abdoulaye Bathily to be the new U.N. envoy to Libya

The Independent UK

Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

Reuters

As inspectors leave Ukraine's nuclear plant, the mayor of a nearby town has high hopes

Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov speaks to NPR about the risks of attacks and nuclear disaster with Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant under Russian occupation.

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US says China must be 'held to account' after UN report on Xinjiang abuse

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that a long-awaited UN report on human rights violations in China's Xinjiang province reaffirmed Washington's view that Beijing is committing "genocide" against the Uyghurs.

France 24

Lawyer criticises UN report’s failure to call Uyghur oppression ‘genocide’

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says outgoing human rights chief’s report on China makes it easier for international community to do nothing

The Guardian - UK

U.S. welcomes UN report on China's actions in Xinjiang

The United States on Thursday welcomed a United Nations report that said China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, saying it deepened Washington's concerns about what it calls a genocide there against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups.

Reuters

UN head hopes China will ‘take on board’ Xinjiang recommendations

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman says he was ‘concerned’ by what he read in the damning report.

Al Jazeera

U.N. chief plans to name former Senegalese minister as Libya envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to appoint a former Senegalese minister to lead U.N. efforts to broker peace in Libya, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Reuters

Pakistan's new normal? Climate change triggers record monsoon floods

First the glaciers melt, then the heavens open. As Pakistan bails out from unprecedented monsoon flooding comes the stark realisation that this is not some freak of nature, it is the new normal for a nation that scientists rank among the most vulnerable to global warming. We ask about the…

France 24

Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff

Exclusive: Did the Government’s legal agency withhold evidence of the rape, torture and abuse of children from police investigations? Aaron Smale unravels an extraordinary paper trail.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the UN and Xinjiang: no one can say they don’t know

Editorial: The long-delayed report from the office of the human rights commissioner puts an official stamp on the evidence of shameful abuses against Uyghurs

Newsroom.co.nz

Mixed messages on Xinjiang report from NZ politicians

The Government has called on Beijing to remedy human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, while National says we shouldn't wave a "banner of purity".

Reuters

U.N. chief hopes China adopts recommendations made in report on Xinjiang – spokesperson

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hopes China will “take on board the recommendations” made in a report by the organization's Human Rights Office on the Xinjiang province, a U.N. spokesperson said on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Evicted Chagos Islanders’ descendants to get British citizenship

Home Office announces applications for children of those forcibly evicted by the British in 1970s will open in November

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From Pakistan to Texas, big rains after extreme heat deliver double punch

While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country's worst recorded floods, heavy rain is hitting southwestern China as the Texas city of Dallas recovers from a 10-inch deluge in a single day last month.

Radio France Internationale

Beijing furious over damning UN rights report on Uyghurs in Xinjiang

China on Thursday accused the United Nations of becoming a "thug and accomplice of the US and the West" after the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a highly anticipated report warning that crimes against humanity may have taken place in the Xinjiang region.

The Guardian - UK

The UN’s report on the Uyghurs nearly didn’t see the light of day, thanks to China

Michelle Bachelet’s report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang is sobering – as are Beijing’s attempts to stop it being published, says James McMurray of the University of Sussex

The Conversation

Wolf Warrior II: what the blockbuster movie tells us about China's views on Africa

The Chinese film Wolf Warrior II (2017) has been a runaway success – even though it contains controversial expressions of Chinese nationalism and racist stereotypes of Africans. It is one of the most commercially successful Chinese movies, having grossed over US$800 million at the Chinese box office. Only Star Wars:…

The Guardian - UK

Facebook contractor accused of sacking office cleaner over protests

Meta urged to act after sacking of Guillermo Camacho, union leader who protested against working conditions at London offices

The Independent UK

For exiled Uyghurs, UN report is long-awaited vindication

The U.N.’s long-delayed report on mass detentions and other rights abuses against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in China's far-western Xinjiang region has been welcomed by survivors as an acknowledgement of abuses they say they faced at the hands of the Chinese state

The Guardian - AU

Five key points from the UN report on Xinjiang human rights abuses

Damning report cites human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in north-west Chinese province

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