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UN Envoy to Yemen Prepares for 2nd Week of Consultations

The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, is preparing to launch the second week of consultations with the Yemeni parties in Amman to reach a framework that leads to achieving a comprehensive settlement in the country. Informed Arab sources expect that the UN envoy will benefit from the militias'…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 13, 2022

UN biodiversity negotiations set to begin, as experts warn of mass extinction

United Nations biodiversity talks get underway in Geneva tomorrow, Monday, with global efforts to cut plastic, agricultural pollution, wilderness protection and aspirations to live "in harmony with nature" set to dominate the negotiations.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 13, 2022

'Mission impossible': UN in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building

PHNOM PENH: Just over 30 years ago, a crackling radio in a refugee camp on the Thai border brought Sam Sophal word that the United Nations was coming to his war-ravaged homeland of Cambodia.

Bangkok Post · Mar 13, 2022

Vladimir Putin prepares for brutal assault on Kyiv as battle rages throughout Ukraine

Russia was feared to be making final preparations to lay siege to Kyiv last night after gaining ground on its outskirts.

Daily Record · Mar 13, 2022

'Mission impossible': U.N. in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building

Just over 30 years ago, a crackling radio in a refugee camp on the Thai border brought Sam Sophal word that the United Nations was coming to his war-ravaged homeland of Cambodia. 

Reuters · Mar 13, 2022

Britons to get 350 pounds a month to open homes to Ukraine refugees

Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion as the government moves to deflect anger over its response to the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two.

Reuters · Mar 13, 2022

How have our habits changed two years into Covid?

The worst may well be over, and now we can look to the future and try to understand the ways our lives have changed – perhaps permanently, writes Simon Nicholas Williams

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2022

As it happened: Russian missiles strike Ukrainian military base near Lviv at Polish border

Lviv's regional governor said on Sunday that at least 35 people had been killed in a Russian missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility in Yavoriv near the Polish border. Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces of shooting and killing an American journalist in Irpin later in the day.

France 24 · Mar 12, 2022

Putin to launch brutal assault on Ukraine capital Kyiv in 'escalation of horror'

Ukrainian President Zelensky vows to battle to the end as Russian troops bombard besieged cities with shells, and mass graves are dug for more than 1,500 bodies

Daily Mirror · Mar 12, 2022

Ukraine latest updates: 2,187 residents killed in Mariupol

Ukraine news from March 13: About 100 aerial bombs have been dropped on Mariupol as Russian forces blockade the city.

Al Jazeera · Mar 12, 2022