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UN calls for 52-day pause in global wars ahead of Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

UN truce resolutions typically pass with broad majorities and received all 193 votes for the London Games in 2012. Yet signatories have repeatedly broken their own promises.

Euronews

Why Iran is the wrong war for Trump to back

ANALYSIS: Trump may be very proud of his ‘armada’ off the coast of Iran but the US president could look good, back a winner, and support his allies by leaving Tehran alone and helping Ukraine win instead, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

The Independent UK

New Zealand rejects Trump’s invitation to join Gaza’s Board of Peace

New Zealand joins UK, France, Italy and Germany in rejecting Trump’s Board of Peace offer

The Independent UK

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Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role

Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries

The Guardian - UK

Olympic organisers invoke ancient truce to call for suspension of war

The tradition stretches back to ancient Greece

The Independent UK

Man could avoid more prison time with guilty plea in Navajo woman's disappearance

A man charged in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Navajo woman has pleaded guilty to robbery, marking the latest turn in a case that been emblematic of the epidemic of killings and disappearances in Native American communities

The Independent UK

UN criticizes Haiti for lack of progress on a political transition

The U.N. Security Council has criticized Haitian authorities for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups

The Independent UK

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World Food Programme terminates all staff contracts in rebel-held Yemen, UN says

An estimated 4.8 million people remain internally displaced across Yemen, the WFP says, in what the UN says is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Euronews

Did the US ever ‘give back’ Greenland to Denmark, as Trump claims?

When Nazi Germany began its occupation of Denmark in April 1940, Greenland suddenly found itself cut off from its colonial power and thrust into the centre of North Atlantic wartime strategy. The US took control of Greenland temporarily, establishing bases and defence perimeters there to prevent Germany from using the…

The Conversation

African migration: focusing on Europe misses the point – most people move within the continent

Images of rubber dinghies overcrowded with refugees heading for Europe and narratives about mistreatment and exploitation of migrants on unsafe migration routes have come to dominate how African migration is perceived in European public and policy debates.

The Conversation

The Khamenei question: Can Trump’s ‘beautiful armada’ take out Iran's Supreme Leader?

US President Trump is escalating pressure on Iran with a significant naval deployment and threats of severe retaliation for any attacks. He's considering targeted strikes, even on top leadership, aiming for a regime change similar to Venezuela. Iran warns of a powerful response, while regional allies express deep concern over…

The Times of India

Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil's reliance on hydropower

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social requirements

The Independent UK

Collapse in aid for climate crisis is fuelling wars around the world, says David Miliband

INTERVIEW: The former foreign secretary and head of the International Rescue Committee NGO, tells Nick Ferris that aid cuts must be reversed if the world’s most fragile countries are to have a chance at adapting to the climate crisis

The Independent UK

OPINION - The barbarism of the Iranian regime is plain — the West must not look away

After relatively little in the news about the massacre of civilians inside Iran this month, the world is finally beginning to catch up on the horrors unfolding. Protests against the economic situation quickly turned to calls to bring down the government and grew to 186 towns and cities across Iran.…

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Trump gets shy about firing his own

There have been no high-level firings during Trump's second term.

The Independent UK

Trump-Iran latest: US president says ‘very big, powerful ships sailing to Iran’ as he signals talks

Iran condemns EU decision to list Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organisation

AAP

UN human rights focus mulled as protest law challenged

Protecting human rights after terrorist events could be considered by three judges as activists challenge anti-protest laws brought in after the Bondi massacre.

The Independent UK

Indigenous protesters block Cargill facility in Brazil over President Lula's decree

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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The Guardian - UK

Burner phones and lead-lined bags: a history of UK security tactics in China

Starmer’s team is wary of spies but such fears are not new – with Theresa May once warned to get dressed under a duvet

The Independent UK

A father awaits Rafah crossing reopening after 2-year separation from family in Gaza

Tens of thousands of Palestinians await the reopening of the Rafah crossing into Gaza so they can reunite with family

Euronews

Haiti faces sexual violence and abuse crisis as gang violence spreads, MSF says

Haiti has been plagued by worsening gang violence since the 2021 assassination of its then-President Jovenel Moïse with gangs controlling around 90% of the capital.

The Conversation

US abandons Syria’s Kurds, risking regional turmoil and an IS resurgence

Many Kurdish people will be feeling betrayed by the US after the Syrian army, backed by the US and armed by Turkey, launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in early January. The SDF has long been hailed as the west’s most effective partner against the Islamic…

Axios

Trump warns Iran "time is running out" for talks, threatens "far worse" attack

"As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL!"

The Guardian - UK

Threat of US-Iran war escalates as Trump warns time running out for deal

US president says armada heading towards Iran is ‘prepared to fulfil its missions with violence if necessary’

The Conversation

Mexico and US look for new deal in long-running battle over 80-year old water treaty

Mexico City has experiencing years of low rainfall, leaving it often unable to supply its citizens with water.

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