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Skyrocketing grain prices to worsen global food insecurity, Rabobank warns

Rabobank warns that the Russia-Ukraine war will push grain and food prices up for at least a year, a situation compounded by India's ban on wheat exports, and dry conditions in the grain powerhouses of France and Germany.

ABC News

India, fastest-growing major economy, projected to grow 6.4% in 2022: UN

UNITED NATIONS: As the Ukraine conflict impacts the global GDP, India is projected to grow by 6.4 per cent in 2022, slower than the last year's 8.8 per cent but still the fastest-growing major economy, with higher inflationary pressures and uneven recovery of the labour market curbing private consumption and…

The Times of India

This election, are the teals ready to take on the fossil fuel lobby that’s captured the major parties?

Historians of tomorrow will puzzle over why an election preceded by fire and floods hasn’t centred on the future to which both parties are committing us

The Guardian - AU

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Zelenskiy says Donbas is ‘completely destroyed’ – as it happened

Russian minister says access to Ukrainian Black Sea ports linked to sanctions; Ukrainian PM compares Donbas to hell

The Guardian - AU

Biden has an eye on China as he heads to South Korea, Japan

President Joe Biden's six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aims to build rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders

The Independent UK

India calls out the West, says food grains shouldn't go the way of Covid vaccines

UNITED NATIONS: Calling out the West, India on Wednesday said that food grains should not go the way of the Covid-19 vaccines as it voiced concern over hoarding and discrimination amid the "unjustified increase" in food prices.

The Times of India

N.Korea boosts production of drugs, medical supplies to battle COVID

North Korea is ramping up production of drugs and medical supplies including sterilisers and thermometers as it battles an unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, state media KCNA said on Thursday.

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North Korea promotes traditional medicines in bid to fight Covid outbreak

State media have told patients to use painkillers as well as unverified home remedies such as willow leaf tea

The Guardian - AU

Brazilian jurists call on U.N. to report on Bolsonaro attacks on judiciary

Brazil's democracy and independence of its judiciary are under threat from the government of president Jair Bolsonaro as it prepares for elections in October, a group of lawyers and legal experts said on Wednesday in a petition to the United Nations.

Reuters

UN chief `hopeful' of Ukraine grain deal to help food crisis

The United Nations chief says that with global hunger levels at a new high, he is in intense “intense contacts” with Russia and other key countries and “hopeful” of an agreement to allow the export of desperately needed grain stored in Ukrainian ports, and ensure that Russian food and fertilizer…

The Independent UK

Live updates | UN Chief: War in Ukraine driving world hunger

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he's in “intense contacts” with Russia and other countries to stop escalating global hunger exacerbated by the war in Ukraine by allowing the export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports and ensuring Russian food and fertilizers have unrestricted access to world markets

The Independent UK

Can we still unite to do big things?

When US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau opened the Bretton Woods Conference almost 80 years ago, he reminded delegates that failures of international cooperation had led to the Great Depression, social division and ultimately war. "Prosperity, like peace, is indivisible," he concluded, "we cannot afford to have it scattered…

Bangkok Post

How many Australians have died from COVID-19? How many have had COVID?

COVID-19 infections in Australia hit worldwide highs last week, with infection rates per capita among the highest around the globe. Here are some of the latest COVID-19 questions being asked.

ABC News

4 key climate change markers hit record highs last year: WMO

NEW DELHI: Four key climate change indicators — greenhouse gas concentrations, a rise in sea level, ocean heat and ocean acidification — set new records in 2021, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) noted in its ‘State of Climate’ report released Wednesday. The last seven years, from 2015 to ’21, were…

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Time running out on the ‘one opportunity’ for a climate bill

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden went to Capitol Hill in October to arm-twist for his signature environmental and economic legislation, many Democrats remained hopeful the bill’s climate provisions would survive.

The Independent UK

Lord Frost hits out at ‘unconstructive’ EU over post-Brexit trade deal problems

The Tory peer argues it is obvious the Northern Ireland Protocol needs fixing as he backs moves to scrap parts of the deal

ABC News

Climate change has made old measures predicting weather events in Australia 'essentially worthless'

Around Australia, statistical measures like the "one-in-100-year flood" level are used by authorities to determine safe building standards, but experts say climate change has changed everything.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Drops Forecast for Global Economic Growth in 2022 to 3.1%

The United Nations on Wednesday significantly lowered its forecast for global economic growth this year from 4% to 3.1%, saying the war in Ukraine has triggered increasing global food and commodity prices and exacerbated inflationary pressures, upending the fragile recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The mid-2022 forecast from the UN…

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Bashagha to Set Up Govt in Sirte after Tripoli Clashes

Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said Wednesday he would seat his government in the central city of Sirte, after clashes forced him to abort his attempt the previous day to bring his Cabinet to the Libyan capital of Tripoli. He announced that he has chosen the city of Sirte, along…

The Independent UK

UN envoy: US sanctions on Iran worsen humanitarian situation

A United Nations special envoy says that the sweeping U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran have badly impacted the country's economy and worsened the humanitarian situation in the Persian Gulf nation

Reuters

World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns

The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.

The Independent UK

Truss wants reassurance over ‘appalling’ behaviour before lifting Oxfam aid ban

The UK suspended aid funding to the charity in April 2021 following sexual misconduct claims against staff.

Reuters

Second Rwandan genocide fugitive confirmed dead

One of the last remaining fugitives sought by a U.N. tribunal over his alleged key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide was confirmed dead and the case against him closed, U.N. war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

UN drops forecast for global economic growth in 2022 to 3.1%

The United Nations is significantly lowering its forecast for global economic growth this year from 4% to 3.1%

The Guardian - UK

World Bank pledges $12bn to support low-income countries hit by shortages

Move follows warning from head of UN World Food Programme about high prices leading to social unrest

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