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China Reports Latest COVID Situation in Meeting with WHO

Officials and experts from China on Thursday attended an online meeting with the World Health Organization (WHO), China's national health commission said in a statement. During the meeting Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials and experts from Southeast University reported on China's latest COVID-19 prevention and control measures,…

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Lebanon charges seven over killing of UN peacekeeper

Lebanon's military tribunal on Thursday charged seven suspects in last month's attack that killed an Irish peacekeeper when a group of armed local residents ambushed his convoy and opened fire, officials said.

France 24

Lebanon charges 7 suspects in killing of UN peacekeeper

Lebanon’s military tribunal has charged seven suspects in last month’s attack that killed an Irish peacekeeper when a group of armed local residents ambushed his convoy and opened fire

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Lebanese military court charges 7 over fatal UNIFIL peacekeeper attack - three judicial sources

Lebanon's military tribunal on Thursday charged seven people over a December attack that killed one Irish soldier serving in a United Nations peacekeeping force, three Lebanese judicial sources told Reuters.

Reuters

Turks and Caicos under strain after 275 Haitian migrants recently detained

Governor says resources are stretched after three overloaded boats were intercepted between 23 December and 2 January

The Guardian - US

Libya’s Presidential Council Joins Unity Gov't in Rejecting Egypt’s Demarcation of Maritime Borders

Libya’s Presidential Council, headed by Mohammed al-Menfi, has joined the interim unity government in rejecting Egypt’s demarcation of the maritime borders. Abdullah al-Lafi, member of the Presidential Council, noted that the border demarcation was not “a matter of unilateral action, as it is regulated by stable rules in international law,…

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WHO: China Stats 'Under-represent' True Impact of Covid Outbreak

The World Health Organization criticized China's "very narrow" definition of Covid deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak.

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Volker Türk: the man charged with protecting the world’s human rights

Mild-mannered, but with a tough message to convey, the new UN high commissioner pledges a return to ‘the basics’ of the Universal Declaration laid down 75 years ago

The Guardian - UK

UN Security Council to Discuss Israeli Minister's Al-Aqsa Visit

The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians. The 15-member Council will convene at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) at the United Nations headquarters in New York following a request by the United Arab…

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‘I’m scared to think what Ethiopia will become’: Tigray war refugees fear return

A fragile peace has been restored but for the tens of thousands of displaced people who fled to Sudan there is no prospect of going home

The Guardian - UK

UN to hold emergency meeting on Israeli visit to holy site

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting at the request of the Palestinians and other Islamic and non-Islamic nations to protest the visit of an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site

The Independent UK

UK Government urged to reject ‘climate-wrecking’ Rosebank oil field plans

It is thought to be the biggest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea, with potentially 500 million barrels

Insider UK

WHO: China COVID Data Underrepresents Surge, Deaths

China's COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and underrepresents the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The comment came as the UN agency prepares to meet with Chinese scientists again on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Flutes, synths, a human voice – how should electric vehicles sound?

As Australia looks to the US and Europe on electric vehicle safety rules, carmakers are experimenting with sounds that will effectively warn pedestrians

The Guardian - AU

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Scottish social enterprise letting agency wins global UN award

A SCOTTISH letting agency that has given hundreds of low-income people a home to live in has won a top UN award.

Reuters

Ukraine official says time for U.N. peacekeepers at nuclear plant

Ukraine wants the United Nations to send peacekeepers to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant even without a deal with Russia to establish a safety zone there, the head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company said.

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UN Officials Call for Extending Resolution Allowing Aid Access to Syria

Six senior international officials in humanitarian affairs signed a joint statement calling for extending the United Nations Security Council resolution 2642 which allows for life-saving humanitarian aid to be delivered to north-west Syria from across the Turkish border. The resolution is set to expire in eight days. “If the Council…

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This baby could push India past China to become the world's most populous country

Any day now, the United Nations will declare India's population the largest in the world. The country's next generation is poised to be healthier, more literate — and more female — than ever before.

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Israeli Opposition Warns Of Potential New Round Of Violence

Yair Lapid warned on Monday against a proposed visit to the Temple Mount by Ben-Gvir, saying that it would lead to bloodshed.

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Natural Disasters Increase Displacement Rates to 34% in Yemen

A majority of Yemen's internally displaced wish to return to their areas of origin, contrary to previous data from last year's beginning, according to recent data by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). According to data in the second half of 2022, 41…

The Independent UK

Myanmar army leader touts election plan on Independence Day

Myanmar’s ruling military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has described plans for an election later this year and called for national unity in a speech as he led a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain

Reuters

China COVID data shows no new variant but under-reports deaths, WHO says

Data from China shows that no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but also that the country under-represents how many people have died in a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

UN Security Council welcomes new members; 2 are first-timers

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland are getting a formal welcome into the U.N. Security Council

Newsroom.co.nz

Human disruption risks biosphere collapse

Given we’ve triggered multiple crises in the natural world it’s time to talk about overpopulation

Radio France Internationale

UK, Mauritius open talks on sovereignty of disputed Chagos Archipelago

Britain and Mauritius have begun talks aimed at ending a decades-old spat over the legal status of the Chagos Islands, whose population was forcibly cleared in the late 1960s to allow the building of a joint UK-US military installation.

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