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Human Rights Watch has urged a halt to a major East African oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies, warning of dire consequences for the environment and local communities.

The US will send the weapons to Ukraine – even as human rights groups oppose their use

The US will send the weapons to Ukraine – even as human rights groups oppose their use

Hundreds of people were rounded up from Sfax and driven to the militarised Tunisia-Libya border zone this week.

The weapons, banned by more than 120 countries, will be in the new aid package expected to be announced on Friday.

The Biden administration has agreed to provide controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine that it says could help its forces penetrate Russia's defensive lines, but that many nations have pledged not to use again due to risks to civilians

Once we get the release of these numbers out of the way at noon (ET), attention should immediately turn back to weather forecasts.

Villagers increasingly caught up in army crackdown on Islamist militants, with both sides accused of mass killings of civilians

President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered top military commanders on Friday to strengthen Ukraine's northern military sector following the arrival of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group fighters in Belarus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow would emerge from the aftermath of the Wagner mercenary group’s aborted…