19 October 2024
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By AFPThe United States on Wednesday demanded accountability by Israel after The New York Times reported that the US ally has used Palestinian civilians as human shields in the Gaza war.The newspaper said that at least 11 squads in five cities in Gaz...
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By AFPFewer than 15 percent of countries have submitted plans to slow the destruction of nature ahead of a global biodiversity summit in Colombia, according to a count shared by the United Nations Wednesday.The 196 country members of the UN's Convent...
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By AFPClimate change, along with rapid urbanisation and deforestation, turbocharged floods in Nepal that killed more than 240 people last month, scientists said on Thursday.Nepal suffered its worst flooding in decades in late September after ferociou...
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By AFPInaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday."Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world's food production are now in area...
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By AFPThere are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease's spread.Global vaccine production is operating at full capacity, but deman...
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By AFP/Pedro SchwarzeA prolonged drought in much of South America has forced tech giants like Google and Amazon to rework their plans for water-guzzling data centers.Data centers housing huge servers are springing up around the world to store the flo...
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By AFP/Lucie AubourgBraving death threats, harassment, and the risk of prosecution, Stephanie Loraine Pineiro is resolute in her mission to help women in Florida obtain abortions, despite the "constant risk.""I put my livelihood at risk, I put my lif...
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By AFP/Shrouq TariqPakistan's traditional matchmakers play a revered role in moulding daughters into potential brides, but marriage apps marketing themselves as halal are offering women a new route to finding a husband."When I saw my colleague happy...
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By AFPUN experts on Thursday accused the two sides in Sudan's civil war of using "starvation tactics" against 25 million civilians, leaving 97 percent of the population facing " "severe levels of hunger"."Never in modern history have so many people f...
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By AFPUN human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday warned Israel that any "large-scale forcible transfer" of civilians out of conflict-wracked north Gaza could constitute a war crime if not done on "imperative military grounds.""Israel's evacuation...
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By AFP/Lea Dauple with Khrystyna Zanyk and Florent VergnesWhen Ukrainian serviceman Igor Shyshko summarised his two years of detention in Russia alongside 72-year-old US citizen Stephen Hubbard, three words came to mind: torture, humiliation, hunger....
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By AFP/Laura ChungFive Pacific nations on Thursday plotted how to prosecute a pivotal UN court case that aims to hold climate-polluting countries to account and safeguard their islands' survival.The International Court of Justice will start hearings...
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