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Critics say Vectus Global’s presence – including snipers – will undermine Haiti’s police and UN security force

Glencore says it is working with state and federal governments to minimise the impact of flora and fauna in the 680ha area west of Mackay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital

Malian city welcomes return of hundreds of crates of treasures after more than a decade stored in capital Bamako

COMMENT: What human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger saw at the Palestine Action demonstration in Parliament Square was not public order policing – it was the suppression of lawful dissent, and the deliberate targeting of vulnerable people to send a chilling message: no cause is now safe from criminalisation

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts

At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.

The clashes in March included murder, torture and other ‘inhumane acts’ that UN investigators say amount to war crimes.

A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame

The €700,000 project involves work at 15 sites in the Green Line, the island's demilitarised zone.

Negotiators working on a global deal to curb plastic pollution had only hours left on Thursday to rescue the process after talks collapsed into disarray.