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Member of Yemeni Presidential Leadership: The Battle is Existential with Houthis

Member of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Tareq Saleh, described the battle with the Houthi militias as an existential battle on all levels, referring to the "banditry" of its leaders and their attempts to wipe out the Yemeni identity. The official media quoted Saleh as confirming that the battle with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Funding shortfall forces food ration cuts for millions of hungry Afghans

The U.N. World Food Programme has been forced to cut rations to 4 million Afghans this month, it said in a statement late on Friday, due to a funding shortfall in the midst of the country's severe humanitarian crisis.

Reuters

Serbia and Kosovo in high-stakes EU-mediated talks

Western officials are hoping for progress this weekend in EU-mediated talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders

The Independent UK

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UN: Ten Million Children in Sahel Face 'Extreme Jeopardy'

Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Will Extend Ukraine Grain Deal for 60 Days — Not 120

On the eve of the expiration of a deal enabling Ukraine to export grain, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief on Friday called its extension crucial to ensuring global food supplies and keeping prices from spiraling as they did after Russia’s invasion of its smaller neighbor. Russia’s UN ambassador reiterated that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Belarus jails senior staff at independent news site in crackdown on Lukashenko critics

Twelve-year sentences for the women condemned as president’s ‘revenge’ while UN report accuses country of possible crimes against humanity

The Guardian - AU

Cyber leader

The International Telecommunication Union and the UN recently hosted WSIS Prizes 2023. Advanced Info Service (AIS) showcased its Aunjai cyber capabilities and won in the category of programs using technology to build confidence and security in the use of ICT. Saichon Submakudom, second from right, head of PR at AIS,…

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 388 of the invasion

Joe Biden says international criminal court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin is justified, while Volodymyr Zelenskiy hails the ‘historic’ move

The Guardian - AU

Russia will extend Ukraine grain deal for 60 days — not 120

On the eve of the expiration of a deal enabling Ukraine to export grain, the United Nations' humanitarian chief called its extension crucial to ensuring global food supplies and keeping prices from spiraling

The Independent UK

UN says it is doing everything possible to continue Ukraine grain deal

The United Nations is "doing everything possible" to make sure a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports continues, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Friday, a day before the pact is due to expire.

Reuters

Haiti PM turns to military for help in fighting gangs

Prime Minister Ariel Henry says he intends to activate all of the country’s security forces to fight increasingly powerful gangs

The Independent UK

Russia, the US and a 'pro-Ukraine group' are all suspects in the Nord Stream sabotage. How do the theories stack up?

Several suspects have emerged since the Nord Stream gas pipelines were spectacularly sabotaged last year, including the Russians themselves, the US and a non-state "pro-Ukraine" group.

ABC News

Cocaine production, smuggling on the rise after pandemic-related slowdown

Cocaine production and trafficking is surging around the world after slowing down considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service

When Russia took control of Zaporizhzhia's nuclear power plant, Ukrainian technicians were forced to flee, or work at gunpoint

A year ago, Sergii woke up and headed to work at Europe's largest nuclear power plant. When he approached, he saw the trail of a bloody battle and knew a grim fate awaited him inside.

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Cyclone Freddy shattered records. People lost everything. How does the healing begin?

The countries hit by this unprecedented storm now must help survivors who may have lost nearly everything. We talk to an aid worker on the ground in Mozambique for insights.

The Independent UK

Governments pledge money, attention to Venezuela's crisis

Governments and financial institutions are pledging millions of dollars for humanitarian and development projects to address the urgent needs of Venezuelans at home and abroad

Asharq Al-Awsat

New COVID Origins Data Point to Raccoon Dogs in China Market

Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab, international experts say. Other experts have not yet verified their analysis, which has yet…

The Conversation

Iraq war 20 years on: the British government has never fully learned from Tony Blair's mistakes

The Iraq war remains the UK’s most investigated foreign policy decision of the past 50 years. As the world marks 20 years since the invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we have to ask, has the UK learned any lessons from what happened in 2003?

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Daily Mirror

Arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin by International Criminal Court over Ukraine war

The court said in a statement that Vladimir Putin "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"

Football London

Daniel Levy speaks as Tottenham Hotspur and Son Heung-min both win awards

The north London club and their South Korean star have both picked up awards for their efforts in influencing positive change in society

Al Jazeera

‘Catastrophic insecurity’: 10 million children in Sahel need aid

UNICEF says the number of children in extreme jeopardy has doubled since 2020.

France 24

Ukraine's deadly fields: Farmers risk their lives to grow crops

Around a quarter of farmland in Ukraine is contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance. The problem concerns not only areas that were occupied by Russian forces, but also Ukrainian-controlled areas that came within artillery range. Demining programmes are focusing on residential areas, not fields. Yet some farmers say they simply…

The New Daily

UN mulls hearing Australia’s complaint against Russia over Flt MH17 shootdown

The United Nations aviation agency is expected to debate whether to hear a case against Russia over the 2014 downing of Flight MH17

The Independent UK

Gianni Infantino, elected by no one, sweeps to Fifa power again

Infantino has extended his stay as Fifa president for another four years after winning an election unopposed, and a loophole in the rules means he will likely take his reign all the way to 2031

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Markets on alert after US banks join forces to rescue First Republic

Global shares rise as $30bn lifeline for US bank eases fears of imminent collapse. Plus, a 5,000-mile stinking blob of seaweed heads to Florida

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