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Pacific Islands leaders to meet as region faces ‘polycrisis’ of threats

Climate change will top the agenda as leaders of 18 nations meet in Tonga from August 26.

Al Jazeera

New Caledonia dispute top of agenda for Pacific leaders

New Zealand is downplaying hopes of a political breakthrough on New Caledonia emerging from next week's Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting.

AAP

Australia Tackles Poor Great Barrier Reef Water Quality

Australia on Friday launched a multi-million dollar effort to stop pesticide runoff and other water quality issues on the Great Barrier Reef, the latest effort to save the ailing natural wonder.

International Business Times

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In Myanmar’s brutal war, the military is weaponising sexual violence against women, children and LGBTQI+ people

The United Nations verified 3,688 cases of conflict-related sexual violence around the world last year, a significant increase of 50% from 2022. This is certainly a vast underestimate of the true number of cases.

The Conversation

Big polluters targeting esports industry with advertising deals, report reveals

Oil firms, petrostates, airlines and carmakers ‘doubling down’ on sector that is popular with young people

The Guardian - UK

Combining Climate Measures Key To Slashing Emissions: Study

A major new study published Thursday on the effectiveness of climate measures such as taxes or subsidies in reducing greenhouse gases has found stand-alone measures fail to make a big difference.

International Business Times

US tells UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire ‘in sight’ ahead of Cairo talks

The US insists, despite evidence to the contrary, that Netanyahu has agreed to a proposal to suspend the war.

Al Jazeera

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Aid trucks enter civil war-torn Darfur as Sudan army eases restrictions

World Food Programme says a small convoy carrying food enters Sudan via temporarily reopened border crossing with Chad.

Al Jazeera

Gaza update: US politics and the fate of Palestinians increasingly bound up together

It would be a brave – or foolhardy – analyst who presumes to predict the outcomes of the talks which continue in Doha. But the fate of Gaza and its 2 million inhabitants as well as the 109 remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza, will depend on a political…

The Conversation

‘Really heavy to see’: Lewis Hamilton speaks up on plight of refugees in Africa

Lewis Hamilton has reiterated that F1 must stage a race in Africa, while Verstappen is unsure on his future when his current deal expires in 2028

The Guardian - UK

The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public

The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public

The Independent UK

Bangladesh Revokes Diplomatic Passport Of Ex-PM Hasina

Bangladesh's interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led uprising by helicopter to India earlier this month.

International Business Times

Bangladesh court sends 2 journalists to police custody for questioning as chaos continues

A court in Bangladesh’s capital has allowed police to interrogate two journalists in their custody for four days in connection with the murder of a garment worker, who joined recent student protests against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that forced her to step down and flee to India earlier this…

The Independent UK

Australia has a poverty problem – so why is there no agreed measure of it?

Experts agree that tackling disadvantage requires an understanding of how many people are affected and by how much

The Guardian - AU

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The Independent UK

Palestinian families flee tanks and drones as Israel intensifies assault in two Gaza cities

‘There is no place the tanks didn’t enter, or bomb, and there is nowhere safe anymore,’ warns resident fleeing Khan Younis

The Guardian - UK

We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe, warns biodiversity summit president

Just cutting carbon emissions will not prevent climate breakdown, says Susana Muhamad before Cop16 in Colombia

Radio France Internationale

West African juntas complain to UN over Ukraine's alleged support for rebels

The military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the United Nations Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine's support for rebel groups in West Africa's Sahel region, according to Mali's foreign ministry.

The Conversation

Treating Nord Stream blasts as a whodunit misses the point – and plays into Russia’s plan to distract and divide

In the two years since saboteurs planted explosives on Nord Stream 1 and 2 – gas pipelines that spanned the Baltic Sea to connect Russia to Germany – the finger of suspicion has fallen on a succession of possible culprits.

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International Business Times

Ceasefire Hopes Fade As Gaza Fighting Rages

Hopes were dwindling Thursday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where fighting raged despite pressure from the United States on Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas to reach an agreement.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: ‘Coach Walz’ wows the crowd as he accepts VP nomination

Tim Walz draws on his Americana background at the Democratic national convention in Chicago. Plus: a penguin movie star

The Guardian - UK

Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

Youthful, growing cities expected to create wealth and opportunities but stretch public and utility services

The Guardian - UK

Thousands flee after Myanmar rebels use drones to bomb Rohingya villagers

Arakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official says

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Israeli Strike Kills Three In West Bank Home

Violence escalates in West Bank and Gaza as Israeli strikes claim lives, U.N. warns of humanitarian crisis, and efforts for cease-fire deal intensify.

Radio France Internationale

France to donate 100,000 mpox vaccines as it prepares for outbreak at home

France will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to countries hit by an outbreak of the disease as it readies vaccination centres at home, outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said this week.

International Business Times

War-battered Gaza Faces Uphill Battle Against Polio

The Gaza Strip's first recorded polio case in 25 years has health workers and aid agencies grappling with the steep obstacles to conducting mass vaccination in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

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