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Turkmenistan moves towards plugging massive methane leaks

Central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating ‘super-emitter’ events in the world

The Guardian - UK

Postcard from a drowned city — corpses, floating land mines and rockets in the canals of Kherson

The catastrophic Nova Kakhovka dam explosion has turned Kherson into what the locals are calling ‘Venice from hell.’ Tom Mutch reports from a humanitarian and environmental disaster zone

Evening Standard

UN chief Guterres backs proposal to form watchdog to monitor AI

Secretary-general says the risks posed by artificial intelligence threatens democracy and human rights.

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Fate of jailed fighters still unknown months after Ethiopia truce

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

Al Jazeera

Using high-tech laser gear, UN-backed team scans Ukraine historical sites to preserve them amid war

Two United Nations-backed engineers are using a high-tech laser to create incredibly high-resolution, three-dimensional renderings of historic sites in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt

A proposed plastics treaty could join the rescue of the ozone layer as a landmark success, says specialist environment correspondent Geoffrey Lean

The Guardian - UK

UN says insurance coverage secured to salvage rusting oil tanker off Yemen

The United Nations Development Program says it's secured an insurance coverage to start a ship-to-ship transfer of 1.1 million barrels of crude from a rusting tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen — oil that could cause a major environmental disaster

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South Sudan’s sluggish peace deal and unsteady road to elections

In 18 months South Sudan is supposed to head to the polls for presidential elections, the culmination of a peace agreement signed nearly five years ago to pull the nation out of fighting that killed some 400,000 people

The Independent UK

Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting

Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border

The Guardian - UK

No need for martial law in Russia, says Putin; senior Russian general killed in Zaporizhzhia, says Moscow – as it happened

Russian president says Russia needs to ‘fight enemy agents’ inside its own territory; Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev killed by cruise missile

The Guardian - AU

30,000 Haitian kids live in private orphanages. Officials want to shutter them and reunite families.

Haiti’s government is stepping up efforts to remove hundreds of children from orphanages across the country and reunite them with their parents or relatives

The Independent UK

UK should set up ‘national lab’ to become world leader in AI – Blair and Hague

Britain should push for a new UN framework on urgent safeguards for the technology along with the US and other allies, a report has concluded.

The Independent UK

UN chief calls for coordinated global action on disinformation, hate and artificial intelligence

The United Nations chief says the proliferation of hate and lies on digital platforms and the threat that artificial intelligence can become an uncontrolled “monster” demand coordinated global action

The Independent UK

Ukraine troops liberate four villages as stepped-up action puts Russians on the run

Soldiers seized communities in the Vremivka Ledge area of Donetsk in the south east, beat back assaults in the frontline town of Avdiivka and gained half a mile in the Bakhmut region

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The Guardian - UK

Romania recalls ambassador who allegedly compared monkey to African diplomats

UN’s Africa group ‘not prepared to participate’ with Dragos Viorel Tigau after alleged comment in Kenya

The Guardian - AU

Too soon to say where counteroffensive going, US says, but Washington confident Kyiv will prevail – as it happened

US secretary of state Antony Blinken says Ukraine should expect ‘robust’ political and practical support from the Nato summit

WEKU

The U.S. says it wants to rejoin UNESCO after exiting during the Trump administration

The U.S. could reenter the cultural and educational body several years after it pulled out of the group citing an "anti-Israel bias" and other concerns.

The Independent UK

Turkey's president unwavering on two-state policy to resolve Cyprus' ethnic division

Turkey’s president says any deal resolving Cyprus’ nearly half-century ethnic division must be based on recognition of a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the island nation’s northern third

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The Independent UK

Iraq urges countries to repatriate their citizens from camp housing families of extremist IS group

Iraq is urging countries that have citizens in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group to repatriate their nationals

The Week

SNP crisis: should Humza Yousaf suspend Nicola Sturgeon?

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf is facing mounting pressure to suspend his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon following her arrest yesterday.

The Week

‘We should be scared’: the poisoning of schoolgirls in Afghanistan

Dozens of schoolgirls are suspected to have been deliberately poisoned in two attacks in Afghanistan, the latest in a decade of incidents in the region, intensifying fears for girls pursuing education.

The Independent UK

US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence

U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has announced that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member

The Guardian - UK

Nine out of 10 people are biased against women, says ‘alarming’ UN report

Researchers ‘shocked’ at lack of progress, and entrenched social norms that curtail women’s chances in politics, business and work

France 24

No progress on biases against women during past decade, UN reports

Data tracking biases against women has shown no progress over the past decade, with prejudices remaining "deeply embedded" in society despite rights campaigns such as MeToo, a UN report said Monday.

Glasgow Live

Dead Glasgow dad's belongings binned before heartbroken family could collect treasured medals

A Glasgow family have been left devastated after discovering their late loves one's home was emptied after a housing association binned belongings including war medals and uniforms.

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