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Analysis-China's balancing act over Ukraine offers Washington a subtle 'win'

China's abstentions on U.N. votes to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine are a "win", said the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, underscoring how Beijing's balancing act between its partner Russia and the West may be the best outcome for Washington.

Reuters

Despite risk of death, Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back

Thailand has sent thousands of people fleeing escalating violence by Myanmar’s military back home despite the risk to their lives, and despite international refugee laws that forbid the return of people to countries where their lives may be in danger

The Independent UK

UN Assembly to vote on suspending Russia from rights council

The U.N. General Assembly is voting Thursday on a resolution to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations that Russian soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine’s capital

The Independent UK

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Ukraine says Russia will see new sanctions as ‘permission to attack’ amid warnings of fresh offensive

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says sanctions unveiled by west have ‘a spectacular look. But this is not enough’, as fears mount of large-scale Russian offensive

The Guardian - AU

Aus-NZ refugee deal is a bandage on a failed policy. It's time to end offshore processing

Australia has finally accepted New Zealand’s offer to settle some of the refugees from the offshore processing regime – about nine years after it was first made in 2013.

The Conversation

Torture reports of prisoner in Iraq raised

A United Nations report has found that Australian Robert Pether has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq and has detailed allegations of torture and abuse.

AAP

What would following Australia’s ‘leadership’ on the climate crisis actually look like?

The Morrison government is touting their climate credentials but analysts say following Australia’s path would see 3C or more of global heating

The Guardian - AU

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UN to vote Thursday on suspending Russia from rights council

The U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the U.N.’s premier human rights body

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan calls on leading vaccine manufacturers to share Covid jab blueprints with world

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan, alongside mayors of New York and Johannesburg, urged companies ‘to do all you can’ to promote vaccine equity and ‘help stop the unnecessary loss of life’

The Independent UK

‘Major misjudgment’: how the Tories got their energy strategy so wrong

Analysis: betting big on nuclear, hydrogen, oil and gas while passing over energy saving measures, Johnson’s plan is a huge missed opportunity

The Guardian - UK

Feet tied and bullet to the head: A killing in Ukraine's Bucha

A rope tied around his feet and a charred hole in his forehead, a dead man lies in scrub by a railroad track on the outskirts of the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Reuters

As horrific evidence of massacres is uncovered in Ukraine, Russian propaganda gathers pace

Warning: this article contains distressing details.

The Conversation

UNGA to vote on suspending Russia from Human Rights Council over Bucha killings

Vote by India, which called for enquiry into rights excesses in the Ukrainian city, to be watched closely

The Hindu

Ukraine: As Russia faces ‘genocide’ charge, experts urge caution

Ukraine says civilian killings in Bucha constitute ‘genocide’, but analysts say charge needs to be fully investigated.

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‘I hadn’t even held a gun’: Climate activists switch fighting for environment to fighting for Ukraine

‘I believe the protection of nature is directly related to the protection of country,’ Extinction Rebellion activist in army says

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Threatens States with Consequences Over UN Vote on Human Rights Council

Russia has warned countries at the United Nations that a yes vote or abstention on a US push to suspend Moscow from the Human Rights Council will be viewed as an "unfriendly gesture" with consequences for bilateral ties, according to a note seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The United States…

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Union’s ‘Rattan’ Air Jordan 2 is the perfect spring sneaker

Or for matching your trendy rattan chair.

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Climate tsar joins UN net zero accountability watchdog

Climate Change Commission chair Rod Carr has been appointed to a UN panel tasked with ensuring corporate and municipal climate claims are credible and can be achieved.

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Why universities must address 'immigration colonisation'

Universities that benefit from taking the best and brightest from developing economies could help re-balance global inequality, writes Murali Chandrashekaran.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Moves Machines for Making Centrifuge Parts to Natanz, Says UN Nuclear Watchdog

Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Eastern Ukraine Town Empties as Residents Fear New Russian Assault

Dragging trolleys and clutching plastic bags with their meager belongings, residents of the northeastern Ukrainian town of Derhachi, near the border with Russia, boarded buses on Wednesday to be evacuated as fears of a Russian assault grew. Since pulling back from outside the capital Kyiv last week, Russian forces have…

The Guardian - UK

US and Europe behind majority of global ecological damage, says study

Groundbreaking report is first to assign responsibility for damage caused by 160 countries in past 50 years

Los Angeles Times

At NATO, Biden's top diplomat keeps eye toward leaders not condemning Putin

BRUSSELS — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is in friendly territory: the headquarters of NATO where European leaders, almost to a man and woman, are supportive of U.S.-led efforts to punish Russia and help Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Letters: Hugh O’Shaughnessy obituary

Keith Johnston writes: As an undergraduate in 1973 I learned a great deal about events in Chile from the reports of Hugh O’Shaughnessy

The Conversation

Worrying insights from UN's first-ever assessment of water security in Africa

When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none.

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