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United Nations names independent expert on human rights for Haiti. He’s a familiar face

MIAMI — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday designated William O’Neill as an expert on human rights in Haiti.

Miami Herald

US to Mali: End restrictions on UN peacekeepers, seek peace

The United States is warning Mali’s military government that it would be “irresponsible” for the United Nations to continue deploying its more than 15,000 peacekeepers unless it ends restrictions including on operating reconnaissance drones

The Independent UK

Ukraine rejects Russian Wagner Bakhmut control claims

Ukrainian officials say the country's forces control more than the 20 per cent of Bakhmut, rejecting statements from the Russian Wagner mercenary group.

The New Daily

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Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists attribute extreme weather events to climate change

Last month the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report.

The Conversation

‘Deadliest quarter’ for migrants in the Central Med since 2017

More than 400 people have died crossing the Central Mediterranean between January and March this year.

Al Jazeera

Saudi FM Discusses Political Solution in Syria with UN Envoy

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah received on Wednesday a telephone call from United Nations envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen. The officials discussed means to reach a political solution to the crisis in Syria and the envoy’s efforts to that end. Prince Faisal underscored the Kingdom’s keenness…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Palestinian refugee agency urges West Bank workers to end strike

The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency on Wednesday called on the West Bank local staff union to end a strike, saying the stoppage was hindering access for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees to basic services.

Reuters

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UN migration agency sounds alarm over sea deaths as EU arrivals rise

Three times as many people sought to reach the European Union across the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2023 compared to a year before, the bloc's border agency said, as the U.N. migration arm decried the deadliest first quarter since 2017.

Reuters

UN: Year Is off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Med

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Black Sea security under the spotlight as Russia wavers on grain export deal

A two-day conference on Black Sea security is underway in the Romanian capital Bucharest, with the defence and foreign ministries of both Ukraine and Romania taking centre stage, as Russia questions the future of a UN-brokered shipping deal signed with Ukraine in 2022.

Radio France Internationale

In Tunisia, police destroy migrant camp facing the UN building

Police in Tunisia’s capital, Tunis, have forcefully removed a group homeless sub-Saharan Africans had been camping outside of the UN buildings of the International Organisation for Migration (OIM) and the UN Refugee Agency (HCR) for several weeks.

Radio France Internationale

Zelensky denounces ‘beasts’ in beheading video

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced Russian "beasts" after a video appeared to show the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner, prompting international outrage.

Bangkok Post

UN: Year is off to a deadly start for migrants crossing Med

The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats

The Independent UK

‘We feed the world’: Ukrainian farmers warn of war’s global effects

Vital food exports fall as fields become battle zones and Ukraine accuses Russia of sabotaging Black Sea grain corridor

The Guardian - UK

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Salon

Why activists are uneasy about net-zero

How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters

Bangkok Post

Sun and wind fuel a record 12% of world power

PARIS: Solar and wind energy surged to account for a record 12% of the world’s electricity in 2022, a climate think tank said on Wednesday — though coal remained the leading source globally.

Reuters

Over 400 migrants died crossing Mediterranean early in 2023 - UN agency

More than 400 migrants and refugees drowned in early 2023 while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, the most fatalities in the past six years over a three-month period, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday.

The Conversation

Hundreds of rivers and lakes cross international borders – countries need to commit to sharing the water

The Danube River starts in Germany and eventually flows into the Black Sea some 2,850 kilometres and ten countries later. If Germany were to dam or pollute the river, it could potentially affect nine other countries – and four of their capitals.

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Roll Call

Tim Scott moves toward 2024 White House run - Roll Call

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee in a video recorded at Fort Sumter.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin Says Outlook for Black Sea Grain Deal Is ‘Not So Great’

The Kremlin on Wednesday said the outlook for the landmark UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal was not great as promises to remove obstacles to Russian exports of agricultural and fertilizer exports had not been fulfilled. The grain deal is an attempt to ease a food crisis that predated the Russian…

Reuters

Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create - U.N. chief

Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Urges 'Massive' International Support For Somalia

Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed Tuesday for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. Guterres, who arrived in Somalia's capital Mogadishu earlier on Tuesday, described his trip as a visit of "solidarity." "I am also here to ring the alarm…

Reuters

Taliban ban on Afghan women working for U.N. an 'internal' issue

Afghanistan's Taliban administration has said forbidding Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an "internal issue," after the global organisation expressed alarm at the decision and said it would review its operations there.

The Independent UK

Talban say there's no obstacles for UN work in Afghanistan

The Taliban's chief spokesman denies there are obstacles for the U.N. to do its work in Afghanistan, even after barring Afghan women from working at the global body

France 24

UN 'appalled' by video of alleged Ukraine POW beheading

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced Russian "beasts" after a video surfaced on social media purporting to show the decapitation of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The grisly footage, which prompted outrage and condemnation from UN and EU officials, came as Washington reaffirmed its confidence in Ukraine's military "capability"…

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