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The Myanmar military has been accused of human rights violations going back years [File: Lynn Bo bo/Pool via AFP]
11/01/2023 11:06:36

Myanmar military’s human rights abuses a ‘system exercised from the top’

Afghan citizens wait with their belongings to cross into Afghanistan, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, at the Friendship Gate of Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Abdul Khaliq Achakzai
11/01/2023 10:59:21

As deadline to leave Pakistan expires, official says over 100,000 Afghans gone home

The North Korean flag flutters at the North Korea consular office in Dandong, Liaoning province, China April 20, 2021. Picture taken April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
11/01/2023 10:54:15

North Korea closes multiple embassies around the world

The United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
11/01/2023 10:49:44

Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
10/31/2023 10:22:03

US to evict Gabon, Niger, Uganda and Central African Republic from trade program

Barclays and HSBC gave funding to companies found to be running ‘carbon bomb’ projects between 2016 and 2022. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters
10/31/2023 10:17:27

Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022

A noose around the global rice market. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg
10/31/2023 10:12:40

India is pushing the world toward another rice crisis

United States President Joe Biden has signed an executive regulating AI [Brendan Smialowski/AFP]
10/31/2023 10:06:13

Biden announces ‘strongest’ regulations yet to ensure safety of AI

The UAE ambassador the UN, Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, speaks at a security council meeting. Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty Images
10/30/2023 09:14:28

UAE calls emergency UN security council meeting to seek pause to Gaza fighting

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as they meet at the State Department in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
10/30/2023 09:10:40

China's foreign minister suggests road to Xi-Biden summit will not be smooth

Biden, who paid an extraordinary wartime visit to Israel this October, has fully backed Israel's attack on Gaza [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]
10/30/2023 09:06:44

Biden discusses ‘accelerating’ aid to Gaza in calls with Netanyahu, el-Sisi

As winter approaches in Ukraine's war zone, the arrival of wet, cold weather will likely mean that front lines remain largely static
10/30/2023 09:01:58

Ukraine: War enters a new phase before the winter