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Australia says most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached

Australian scientists confirm the mass bleaching, yet are hopeful the world's largest coral reef ecosystem can recover.

WEKU

Half of Shanghai achieves 'zero COVID'; city presses on with 'unsustainable' fight

China hit back on Wednesday against what it called "irresponsible" comments by the head of the World Health Organization, who described the country's uncompromising and increasingly painful "zero COVID" policy as "not sustainable."

Reuters

Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached

Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth mass event in seven years

The Independent UK

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 77 of the invasion

US spy chief suggests Russia could use nuclear weapons if war continues to stall; Odesa comes under renewed missile attacks

The Guardian - AU

Panama's Commerce Minister appointed ambassador to the United States

Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen said on Tuesday he had appointed Ramon Martinez, currently the country's Minister of Commerce and Industries, as Panama's ambassador to Washington.

Reuters

Morning mail: WeChat posts attack Labor, coral bleaching survey results, Uber drivers squeezed

Wednesday: Unauthorised posters on WeChat warn Labor wants to ‘destroy Chinese wealth’. Plus: Twitter ban on Trump set to be lifted under Musk

The Guardian - AU

The rise and fall of a political dynasty that brought Sri Lanka to its knees

At the height of their power, four brothers from Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa dynasty held the presidency and the prime minister’s office as well as the finance, interior and defence portfolios, among others. But just when the Rajapaksa clan seemed invincible, an economic crisis of their own making led to their…

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U.N. Security Council to discuss Taliban ordering women to cover faces again

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss an order by Afghanistan's Taliban for women to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of the Islamist group's past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions.

Reuters

Fighters appeal for evacuation of wounded from Mariupol mill

Fighters of the Azov Regiment, the Ukrainian unit holed up in the besieged Azovstal steel mill in the devastated port city of Mariupol, have released photos of their wounded comrades in arms who they say are in the plant, along with an appeal to the United Nations and Red Cross…

The Independent UK

Brussels conference: Donors pledge $6.7bn in aid for Syrians

International donors pledge $4.3bn for this year and $2.4bn ‘for 2023 and beyond’ to support war-wracked Syrians.

Al Jazeera

Asylum seekers in Rwanda wait years for decisions and two thirds are rejected, says Home Office report

Document also cites evidence of discrimination against LGBT and Middle Eastern people in asylum system

The Independent UK

John Kerry warns a long Ukraine war would threaten climate efforts

Exclusive: US presidential envoy says limiting global heating to 1.5C could be made harder by conflict

The Guardian - UK

WHO chief says China’s 'zero-COVID' policy not ‘sustainable’

The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus, in rare public comments by the UN agency on a government's handling of the pandemic. "We don't think that it is sustainable considering the behavior…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Despite 'fatigue', donors pledge another $6.7 billion for Syria, neighbours

An international donor conference raised $6.7 billion for Syria and its neighbours on Tuesday despite what the European Union's foreign policy chief said was "a certain fatigue" with the war there, now its 12th year.

Reuters

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WHO says China’s zero-COVID strategy unsustainable

UN health agency officials say that any measure to tackle a coronavirus outbreak should show respect for human rights.

Al Jazeera

Nearly 10 million children going hungry in Afghanistan, says NGO

Save the Children says almost 50 percent of the population needs urgent support to survive despite continuing food aid.

Reuters

UN rights boss to arrive in China for historic visit by month-end

(Corrects to add dropped letter in spokesperson's name)

Reuters

Czech Republic elected to replace Russia on U.N. rights council

The United Nations General Assembly elected the Czech Republic to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council on Tuesday to replace Russia, which was suspended last month over its invasion of Ukraine and then immediately quit the 47-member body.

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The Conversation

Japan's doubling of its defence budget will make the world a more dangerous place – here's why

Japan is proposing to double its defence budget to around £86 billion, or 2% of its GDP. This move – like recent pledges by Germany to massively increase its military spending in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – brings the country full circle since it was militarily neutered…

Reuters

At least 3,000 have died in Ukraine for want of disease treatment -WHO

The World Health Organization's European chief said on Tuesday that at least 3,000 people had died in Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February because they had been unable to access treatments for chronic diseases.

The Conversation

Literature from the Congo Basin offers ways to address the climate crisis

The African continent is responsible for only 2–3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industrial sources. But it’s alarmingly suffering from the effects of the climate crisis, as reports from the UN and others show. On the positive side, Africa has a huge potential for climate mitigation,…

The Conversation

Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues

The history of vaccine manufacturing capacity in Africa dates back to 1881, when Egypt’s Vacsera company was established. Before the COVID pandemic was declared, there were eight African countries that, to our knowledge, had a record of vaccine manufacturing facilities (see the map). They were: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia…

Reuters

U.N. seeks $144 million to offload decaying Yemen oil tanker

The United Nations will launch a $144 million appeal on Wednesday for an operation to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen for years which threatens a major environmental disaster.

The Conversation

Lessons for Ukraine from the Rohingya crisis: even sympathetic communities can lose their enthusiasm for hosting refugees

Countries in Europe have opened their borders and homes to Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression. Of course, Ukrainians are far from the first group of refugees to need shelter and welcome from host countries.

The Independent UK

Ukraine death toll is ‘thousands higher’ than reported, says UN

UN says many more civilians than the official 3,381 total have been killed in the war

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