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Equatorial Guinea: President Mbasogo to run again after 43 years in power

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– – Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will run again for office in November’s elections, his son and vice president has said. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is Africa’s longest serving president alive, coming into power in 1979. He has been the second president of Equatorial Guinea since August 1979 when he ousted his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, in a military… Read More
Pacific 

Australia: Groundbreaking decision creates pathway for climate justice on Torres Strait Islands

Village Reporter
The Committee issued its ground-breaking decision after examining a joint complaint filed by eight Australian nationals and six of their children – all indigenous inhabitants of Boigu, Poruma, Warraber and Masig, four small, low-lying islands in the country’s Torres Strait region. The Islanders claimed their rights had been violated as Australia failed to adapt to climate change through upgrading seawalls on the… Read More
Pacific 

Flood-ravaged Pakistan’s leader appeals for urgent global support in UN address

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“No words can describe the shock we are living through or how the face of the country lies transformed,” Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif told the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate. “For 40 days and 40 nights a biblical flood poured down on us, smashing centuries of weather records, challenging everything we knew about disaster, and how to manage it.” No starker… Read More
Europe 

Demark rallies wealthy nations to back ‘climate solidarity’, boost financing for hard-hit poor countries

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The industrialized world must acknowledge its responsibility to deliver on the climate crisis “and we must listen to those affected the most by climate-induced damages,” Foreign Minister Kofod said in his early evening address to the UN General Assembly’s annual high-level debate. While the most pressing challenges of our time are being felt and even exacerbated all over the planet,… Read More
Europe 

Redouble efforts to end ‘senseless’ war in Ukraine, UN chief tells Foreign Ministers

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The conflict, now in its seventh month, has also sparked a global food, energy and finance crisis that is pushing more people into extreme poverty and hunger, and growing fears of potential nuclear disaster.  “As I have said from the start, this senseless war has unlimited potential to do terrible harm – in Ukraine, and around the world,” the UN… Read More
Pacific 

UN experts strongly condemn death of Mahsa Amini, ‘victim of Iran’s sustained repression’

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“We are shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Ms Amini,” they said in a statement. “She is another victim of Iran’s sustained repression and systematic discrimination against women and the imposition of discriminatory dress codes that deprive women of bodily autonomy and the freedoms of opinion, expression and belief”, the experts added. Stop lethal force The experts also… Read More
Pacific 

Cambodia: UN-backed tribunal ends with conviction upheld for last living Khmer Rouge leader

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The decision of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) to uphold the conviction of the regime’s last surviving leader, Khieu Samphan, ends more than 13 years of hearings by the unique hybrid court, which was made up of both Cambodian and international judges and attorneys. The court reportedly cost as total of $330 million, since being established… Read More
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Uganda confirms seven Ebola cases as outbreak spreads

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– – The Ebola outbreak in Uganda is fast spreading with the country’s health ministry confirming six new cases. Officials confirmed one case triggering the latest outbreak earlier in the week. The first case was that of a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week. The man who died had developed a high fever, diarrhoea and abdominal pains, and was… Read More
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