UN raises alarm over child deaths in Sudan as health crisis deepens
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters More than 1,200 children have died of suspected measles and malnutrition in Sudan refugee camps, while many thousands more, including newborns, are at risk of death before year-end, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday. Chadian cart owners transport belongings of Sudanese people who fled the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, while crossing […]
At UN General Assembly, Biden asks world to stand with Ukraine; Zelenskiy tells Russia to stop war so world can fight climate, other crises
United Nations Reuters US President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice. “Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalise Ukraine without consequence,” Biden said in his speech to […]
Authorities try to contain anger in aftermath of Libya floods
Reuters Communications went down, some journalists were pushed out and a UN aid team was blocked from the flood-hit city of Derna on Tuesday, as the authorities sought to contain public anger over the failure to prevent Libya’s worst ever natural disaster. A week after a flood wiped out much of the centre of the […]
Azerbaijani forces strike Armenian-controlled Karabakh, raising risk of new Caucasus war
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Azerbaijan sent troops backed by artillery strikes into Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday in an attempt to bring the breakaway region to heel by force, raising the threat of a new war with its neighbour Armenia. Karabakh, a mountainous area in the volatile wider South Caucasus region, is internationally recognised as Azerbaijani territory. […]
Russian attacks kill nine in Ukraine, Lviv warehouses set ablaze – officials
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Nine people were killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Tuesday, including a drone strike that set ablaze industrial warehouses and destroyed humanitarian aid supplies in the western city of Lviv, officials said. Six of the victims were killed by a guided bomb that hit the north-eastern town of Kupiansk, Regional Governor […]
Australia, scarred by bushfires, on high alert for dangerous summer
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia on Tuesday declared an El Nino weather pattern was underway as the country’s south-east sweltered in an intense spring heat wave that raised the risks of bushfires and prompted authorities to issue a total fire ban for Sydney. Australia had held off declaring an El Nino but has been bracing for […]
Indian lawmakers bid farewell to British-era parliament building
New Delhi, India Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lawmakers paid tribute on Monday to India’s parliament on the eve of its shift from a British colonial-era building to a brand new complex. Built by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker two decades before India’s 1947 independence, the old parliament witnessed the tortuous birth […]
On eve of UN address, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says: “We want to be heard”
New York, US Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a New York City hospital on Monday, shortly after arriving in the United States to address world leaders at the United Nations. In his first in-person visit to the 193-member world body since Russia’s February, 2022, invasion of his country, Zelenskiy […]
Climate takes centre stage at UN as global temperatures hit record
Washington DC, US Reuters With the world on track to break the record for the hottest year in history, world leaders, business leaders, celebrities and activists have converged on midtown Manhattan for Climate Week and the UN’s Climate Action Summit, again focusing the world’s attention on the climate crisis. The annual climate gathering coincides with […]
Human rights in Russia have “significantly deteriorated” since war – UN expert
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The human rights situation in Russia has significantly deteriorated since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, a United Nations expert said on Monday, describing a “systematic crackdown” on civil society and calling for redress. The report by Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova alleges that Russian authorities have carried out mass arbitrary arrests […]