17 February 2024
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By UN NewsWhile carbon markets have played a limited role in boosting sustainable development for the world’s least developed economies, a new report from UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) shows that stronger domestic laws, regulations, and monitorin...
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By AFP/Sara HusseinA global treaty to end plastic pollution may be in jeopardy, negotiators and environmentalists said Thursday, with new signs that countries may not be able to agree on production cuts.A document circulated by the diplomat chairing...
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By AFPPlanned changes to an anti-espionage law in Turkey threaten the work of rights defenders and journalists, the Human Rights Watch group said Saturday.A text modifying the country's anti-spying law, due to be discussed in parliament soon, would a...
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By AFP/Chloe Rouveyrolles-BazireResidents of Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank are fearful for their future after an Israeli raid this week damaged the UN agency for Palestinian refugees office there.The 13,000 inhabitants of the camp near the...
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By AFP/Jack McBramsA 72-year-old singer with tinted hair, oversized sunglasses and a flashy tracksuit hobbled up onto the main stage at Tumaini Festival in Malawi as the crowd erupted with joy."Ine ndi ndani?" (Who am I?) she said, addressing the cro...
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By AFPScenes of young Nigerians fainting while in court over their involvement in widespread anti-government protests have sparked controversy over detention conditions and police violence.On Friday, 76 Nigerians, many of them minors, were taken to c...
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By AFP/Lise KiennemannNearly one in ten species of animals is threatened with extinction in Colombia, which hosted the UN's COP16 biodiversity summit, according to an AFP analysis based on updated assessments of the world's species.The International...
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By AFP/Daniel LawlerClimate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report said last Wednesday, the experts warning that "wasted time has been paid in lives".The new report was released as heatwaves...
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By AFP/Lehaz Ali with Juliette MansourMilitant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of dedicated volunteer health workers are determined to fight on.Pakistan and Afghanistan...
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By AFP/Hugues HONORE and Jurgen HECKERFrench-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s.The jury needed just one ro...
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By AFP/Anatolii StepanovGennadiy Udovenko sat in front of a microphone in a dark room in Kyiv, a spotlight shining on him as he spoke about the loss of his leg in battle."I'm okay, just my leg is screwed," the 51-year-old said in a gentle voice, the...
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By AFP/Stuart WilliamsIranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports said.The woman, who has not been identified, had been har...
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