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‘Sleepwalking through extinction’: China urged to end delays to Cop15 summit

Covid lockdowns in host country frustrate scientists as no date in sight for key UN conservation conference after two years of delays

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022

UN: 18 Million Facing Severe Hunger in West Africa's Sahel

The UN is warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months, citing the impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs. The hunger crisis may press increased numbers of people to migrate out of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 20, 2022

UN rights chief to visit China for first time since 2005

U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday, making the first such visit since 2005 and prompting fears among Western rights groups that it will be seen as an endorsement of China's rights record.

Reuters · May 20, 2022

Vladimir Putin ally boasts 15,550mph Satan-2 missile will be combat ready by autumn

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency, boasted to schoolchildren about the country's hypersonic missiles but experts have said the ongoing threats and boasts in an attempt to draw attention away from a struggling invasion

Daily Mirror · May 20, 2022

Ukraine slams Russian campaign in Donbas 'hell', US readies $40bn in aid

KYIV: The renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine's Donbas has turned the eastern region into "hell", President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as the United States approved a gargantuan US$40-billion aid package for the country.

Bangkok Post · May 20, 2022

Ukraine’s Donbas ‘Destroyed’ as Russian Artillery and Aircraft Step up Strikes

Russian forces have bombarded areas of Ukraine's eastern Donbas from land and air, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukraine's military said on Friday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned the region into "hell". As the war neared the three-month mark, the Russians were intensifying their efforts to…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 20, 2022

Ukraine war set to claim millions of lives in worst ever global famine, UN warns

The UN is appealing for Vladimir Putin to remove the blockade of ships from Ukraine exporting grain around the world with fears it could cause the worst ever global famine

Daily Mirror · May 20, 2022

Russia claims full control of Mariupol after nearly three-month siege

Russia’s defence chief says the country’s forces have taken full control of the massive steel plant in Mariupol that was the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the city. Read our liveblog below to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

France 24 · May 20, 2022

North Korea’s Covid caseload passes 2 million amid global concern about regime’s pandemic plan

Experts believe North Korean authorities are underreporting deaths to prove that their response has been effective

The Guardian - AU · May 20, 2022

US accuses Russia of weaponizing food in Ukraine war

U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is accusing Russia of weaponizing food and holding grain for millions of people around the world hostage in order to help accomplish what its invasion of Ukraine has not -- “to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people.”

The Independent UK · May 20, 2022