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When 19-year-old Stephane Kulimushi looks around the basketball court in Kampala where he trains young refugees, he sees more than players.
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering progress on putting them into practice. At the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa this week, some 3,000 delegates – including government officials, scientists, business […]
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Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her home.
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When 19-year-old Stephane Kulimushi looks around the basketball court in Kampala where he trains young refugees, he sees more than players.
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering…
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Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her…
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has claimed that the US-Iran peace deal is a "great victory." The group, which is opposed to Israel, has certainly been bolstered by the deal. But what…
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Opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira remains under house arrest months after the Guinea-Bissau coup, deepening a political crisis and raising tensions with international partners.
COP30 chief calls for two-tier climate system to speed up action beyond consensus
As geopolitical divisions strain climate diplomacy, global cooperation should shift to a two-speed system, where new coalitions lead fast, practical action alongside the slower, consensus-based decision-making of the UN process, the COP30 president said. In a letter published on Tuesday, Brazilian diplomat André Aranha Corrêa do Lago wrote that the world should not abandon climate […]
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Risk of Atrocities Looms in South Sudan Amidst Renewed Civil War
Click to expand Image A South Sudanese soldier monitors the area as troops belonging to the South Sudanese Unified Forces take part in a deployment ceremony at the Luri Military Training Centre in Juba on November 15, 2023. © 2023 Peter Louis Gume/AFP via Getty Images On January 25, South Sudan’s military called on civilians, […]
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The Absence of No is Not Yes: Italy’s Flawed Sexual Violence Bill
Click to expand Image Women demonstrate during a protest organized by the Italian feminist movement “Non Una di Meno” on September 28, 2022, in support of the right to abortion in Turin, Italy. © 2022 Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via AP Italy’s new draft law on sexual violence represents a serious step backward from a consent-based approach […]
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US: New, Sweeping Foreign Aid Rules Undermine Global Rights
Click to expand Image Trans and non-binary activists march in the streets of Mexico City, Mexico, on March 31, 2025 to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility. © 2025 Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via AP (Washington DC) – The Trump administration has issued sweeping new rules that use foreign aid as a cudgel to force recipients […]
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Italy: Shipwreck Trial Opportunity For Justice
Click to expand Image Relatives of a person who went missing after a migrant boat sank on February 26 on the beach near where the shipwreck took place off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, near Crotone, in Calabria in southern Italy. March 7, 2023. © 2023 Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan, January […]
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Netherlands set for minority coalition as parties reach deal
Three Dutch political parties clinched a coalition deal but will have to rely on support from other parties to govern.
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ICE on US streets challenges American norms, founding values
The Trump administration has moved ICE’s center of activity from the US border with Mexico to the heart of US cities. Federal agents’ encounters with the public are challenging the foundational ideas of America.
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Dutch court sentences Eritrean migrant smuggler to 20 years
A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced Eritrean Amanuel W. to 20 years in prison in the Netherlands’ largest migrant smuggling case so far. More suspects are set to appear in court later this year.
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FIFA ex-President Blatter backs call to boycott World Cup
With the US due to co-host the football World Cup this summer, former FIFA President Sepp Blatter said a former colleague was "right" to advise supporters to "stay home" and watch on TV amid an immigration crackdown.