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Experts fault UN climate plan for overlooking 'obvious' need to eat less meat

A UN roadmap to reform the world’s food systems – which account for a third of carbon emissions – has been criticised by experts who say it lacks transparency and fails to properly address the crucial need to reduce meat consumption.

Radio France Internationale

Famine Crisis Looms In Gaza As Hunger Levels Soar

UN report warns of imminent famine in northern Gaza due to dire hunger crisis and lack of aid access. Urgent action needed to prevent further deaths.

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'We cannot have children starving to death in Gaza,' says UNICEF chief

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Catherine Russell, the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm about the plight of children in Gaza after more than five months of Israel's war with Hamas.

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UN Warns Israel's Aid Restrictions In Gaza May Be War Crime

UN warns of potential war crime of starvation in Gaza due to Israel's aid restrictions.

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UN says Israeli restrictions on Gaza food aid may constitute a war crime

High commissioner for human rights describes crisis as human-made as hunger levels worsen

The Guardian - UK

UN Warns Planet 'On The Brink' After Warmest Decade On Record

Global temperatures "smashed" heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday -- warning 2024 was likely to be even hotter.

International Business Times

Famine in northern Gaza is 'imminent,' warns the world's leading authority on hunger

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification issued a new report that concluded that the entire population in the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million, face serious food insecurity as war continues.

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UN reports 35 percent increase in people affected by South Sudan violence

New report says civilians are bearing the brunt of a surge in intercommunal conflict in pockets of South Sudan.

Al Jazeera

Documents reveal alleged pattern of Israeli harassment of Unrwa workers on West Bank

Exclusive: UN documents seen by the Guardian list hundreds of incidents, including claims workers were blindfolded and beaten

The Guardian - UK

UN: Israel's Gaza Aid Restrictions May Be War Crime

The UN raises concerns over Israel's aid restrictions in Gaza, potentially constituting a war crime. Urgent humanitarian intervention needed.

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US warns Gaza facing 'acute food insecurity' as UN declares famine 'imminent'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the entire population of Gaza is experiencing 'severe levels of acute food insecurity', as the UN food agency has declared famine is imminent in the enclave, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid to people starving in the territory.

Radio France Internationale

Israeli limits on Gaza aid may be ‘war crime’, UN warns

Restricting aid could be seen as using starvation as a ‘weapon of war’, the UN’s human rights chief says.

Al Jazeera

Famine in Gaza is 'imminent;' how Louisana's abortion ban changed maternal care

People in Gaza are suffering from "catastrophic levels of hunger," according to a group of global experts. Doctors say Louisiana's abortion ban has led to big deviations in maternal care.

WEKU

The pro-Palestine movement has exposed the cynicism of political elites. Where will that energy go next?

The war on Gaza brought out hundreds of thousands of protesters. This force could reshape our hollow democracies, says political activist Richard Seymour

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France 24

'Israel has shifted to the right, even to the far right', former French envoy says

As the war in Gaza continues, France's former ambassador to Israel has told FRANCE 24 how Israel has "shifted to the right, even to the far right" since he was in post. Gérard Araud, who also served as envoy to the US and UN, says he is not surprised by…

International Business Times

Gaza Hunger Warnings Grow As Hopes Build For Ceasefire

Efforts to hammer out a temporary truce in Gaza intensified Tuesday after months of war that have left parts of the devastated territory facing imminent famine.

Latin Times

Bodies Found In Haitian Suburb As Gang Violence Rages For Third Week

Witnesses said gang members attacked a bank, a gas station and homes in the area. Gunfire continued to ring out in Petion-Ville in the afternoon.

Al Jazeera

The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation

Rights groups say proposed rollback of 2015 law will overturn women’s rights across the region as a whole.

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Al Jazeera

Harsh Mongolian winter leaves 4.7m animals dead; Red Cross issues appeal

Mongolian herders are experience extreme ‘dzud’ cold waves more often with little time to recover in between the UN says

International Business Times

Entire Gaza Population At 'Severe Levels Of Acute Food Insecurity': Blinken

Blinken's remarks came on the eve of his return to the Middle East, this time to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and ramp up aid deliveries.

Al Jazeera

Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 165

Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Rafah, while UN warns Gaza heading towards famine.

The Guardian - UK

Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka

Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decade

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US And Japan Propose Ban On Nuclear Weapons In Space

U.S. and Japan lead U.N. resolution against space nuclear weapons amid rising global tensions.

France 24

Hamas chief accuses Israel of 'sabotaging' truce talks after Gaza hospital raid

Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh accused Israel on Tuesday of sabotaging ceasefire talks after its raid on Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, which Israel alleges is being used for military purposes. The UN's human rights chief earlier warned that Israel's severe restrictions on aid into the Gaza Strip and its ongoing…

The Guardian - AU

US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolution

UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer’

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