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Tiwi Islands offshore gas fight shows public banks are under real pressure over fossil fuel funding

Not so long ago, it was easy for public banks to fund new fossil fuel projects. But now, as the world faces a worsening climate crisis, the tide may be turning.

The Conversation

UN: Yemen's Houthi rebels agree to stop using child soldiers

The United Nations says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to rid their ranks of child soldiers

The Independent UK

Jordan's King Abdullah warns Israeli moves in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque are threat to peace

Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel's "unilateral" moves against Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque seriously undermined the prospects for peace in the region, state media said.

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OIC Secretary-General Telephones Palestinian FM

Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha telephoned on Monday Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyadh Al-Maliki to discuss the ongoing Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. He stressed the OIC's solidarity with the Palestinians, expressing its absolute support to their legitimate rights in Jerusalem…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Who speaks for Earth?

As space science matures and accelerates, the time has come for a democratically accountable UN to moderate human activity beyond Earth, writes Ian A. Crawford

Newsroom.co.nz

Why Rwanda asylum seeker plan is doomed to fail

It makes little sense to send vulnerable people to a country with a questionable human rights record, writes Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay. Plus letters from Prof David Richardson, Dr Martin Pugh, Dr Joseph Mullen, Neil Ross and Margaret Fowler

The Guardian - UK

Sudan investigates social worker for ‘leaking state secrets’ to UN

Human rights activists say Sulima Ishaq’s work against sexual violence implicates the government she works for.

Al Jazeera

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Serbia accuses Ukraine and unnamed EU country of Air Serbia bomb hoaxes

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Ukraine and an unidentified EU country of being behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia planes.

Reuters

Why has Russia invaded Ukraine? The conflict explained

Vladimir Putin’s military assault continues in face of near-unanimous international condemnation

The Independent UK

Priti Patel: Rwanda plan critics ‘fail to offer their own solutions’

UK home secretary attacks critics of plan to give unauthorised asylum seekers one-way tickets to African country

The Guardian - UK

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It's a long journey to justice

Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process

The Independent UK

Priti Patel hits out at Archbishop of Canterbury for criticising Rwanda plan

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby became the latest figure to denounce the scheme

Evening Standard

‘We are fighting the system’: Haiti lawyers taking rape to the courts

In a society riven with poverty and where armed gangs use sexual violence as a means of control, three women are working for justice

The Guardian - UK

‘Destructive hunger’: South America’s farmers seek to head off global food crisis

Supply problems and rising costs make it difficult to replace lost agricultural output caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Financial Times

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Russia's unspeakable horrors in northern Ukraine: Torture, murder and cluster bombs

Vladimir Putin's forces may have retreated from northern Ukraine for now, but many residents fear their nightmare is not yet over. WARNING: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.

Radio France Internationale

A day in the life of a worker at Dandora, Nairobi's main dumping ground

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site…

Manchester Evening News

Jacob Rees-Mogg defends Rwanda plans after Archbishop says they 'oppose nature of God'

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby addressed the controversial immigration plans in his Easter Sunday sermon

The Conversation

The unprecedented Ukraine-to-Canada 'air bridge' could mean a brighter future for all refugees

The Canadian government is building an “air bridge” for Ukrainians fleeing war to come to Canada.

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The Independent UK

Myanmar's military chief pardons prisoners to mark holiday

Myanmar’s military government has begun releasing more than 1,600 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, but they didn’t include any political detainees despite the country’s ruling general vowing to bring peace this year

The Independent UK

Rwanda asylum plan could lead to Home Office staff walking out in protest, union warns

Unions have warned civil servants could request transfers or leave the civil service entirely, if they object to the scheme

The Guardian - UK

Facebook struggles as Russia steps up presence in unstable west Africa

Increasingly sophisticated efforts to influence opinion are making it harder to establish whether they breach Facebook’s policies

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Confirms Centrifuge Workshop Moved to Underground Site

Iran has confirmed it relocated a centrifuge facility to its underground Natanz nuclear site, state media reported, days after the UN atomic watchdog said it installed surveillance cameras to monitor the new workshop at Tehran's request. The late Saturday report by the official IRNA news agency comes as diplomatic efforts…

Reuters

China Eastern resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after March crash

China Eastern Airlines has started putting its Boeing 737-800 jetliners back in use for commercial flights less than a month since a crash killed 132 people and led the company to ground 223 of the aircraft, the carrier said on Sunday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Inhuman' Situation in Ukraine's Mariupol as Russia Claims almost Full Control

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Mariupol is "inhuman" and called on the West to immediately provide heavy weapons, as Russia claimed it was in control of almost all of the strategic port city and urged its last defenders to surrender. Moscow said Ukrainian forces in the city…

Daily Mirror

Rwanda genocide orphans to be booted out of home to make way for UK asylum seekers

Orphans of Rwanda’s civil war say they have nowhere to go after being turfed out of a hostel under Priti Patel's cruel Rwanda refugee scheme

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