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North Korea launches missile into space in biggest launch in five years

A suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile was launched into space, reaching an altitude of 1,242 miles before coming down in the Sea of Japan

Daily Mirror

Afghanistan's safety net collapsed after the Taliban's takeover. Now the brutal winter is here and famine is rife

While the Taliban maintains Afghanistan's food crisis has been exaggerated, some families are begging for scraps and shivering under one shared blanket to keep warm. For Seddiqa, every day is a struggle to keep her children alive.

ABC News

Libya elite told to end ‘game of musical chairs and focus on elections’

UN special adviser Stephanie Williams warns of resurgence of Islamic State if country is divided

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Australia’s Future Fund has invested over $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon

FoI requests reveal sovereign wealth fund also has investments in arms companies linked to Myanmar military

The Guardian - AU

Putin's not entirely wrong on Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is an amoral opportunist — but he's right that America and its allies double-crossed him on NATO

Salon

2,000 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthis died fighting: UN

A United Nations report found children aged between 10 and 17 years are being lured into battle.

Al Jazeera

UN Experts Accuse Houthis of Violating Arms Embargo

UN experts accused the Iran-backed Houthi group of recruiting children and using sexual violence and repression against women, stressing that the recently confiscated weapons and missiles have technical characteristics consistent with Iranian-made weapons. The experts pointed out that violations of the UN arms embargo and the Houthi recruitment of children…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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US condemns North Korea after it launches longest-range missile test since 2017

Test marks Pyongyang’s seventh weapons launch this month, highlighting expanding arsenal amid stalled denuclearisation talks

The Guardian - AU

Burkina Faso coach Malo dedicates Afcon win to compatriots and Cameroonian fans

Burkina Faso coach Kamou Malo dedicated his side's 1-0 quarter-final win over Tunisia on Saturday night to his compatriots recovering from a coup d'etat and the Cameroonians in Garoua who cheered his team to victory.

Radio France Internationale

North Korea launches seventh missile in just one month in aggressive show of force

Kim Jong-un’s North Korea army launched the ballistic missile as the number of tests reached seven for the month of January - making it the busiest month on record for the state

Daily Mirror

Myanmar’s military took control of the country one year ago, but it never expected resistance like this

In the year since Myanmar's generals arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and staged a coup, they have been violently cracking down on dissent. But activists say there was one important thing the ruling military junta underestimated: the will of the people.

ABC News

Myanmar’s junta torching ‘village after village’ in bid to quell opposition

After a year in power, evidence is growing of regime scorched-earth tactics to terrorise the civilian population

The Guardian - UK

Lebanon will not ‘hand over’ Hezbollah weapons: Foreign minister

Abdallah Bou assures his country will not be used as a ‘launch pad’ to violate Arab countries’ interests.

Al Jazeera

What next for world powers in war-torn Libya?

The presence of both Turkish and Russian forces in the North African country is deeply unsettling to European powers.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Guterres Urges Security Council to Unify Stance amid US-Russian Differences over Libya

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged on Friday the members of the Security Council to unify their stance over extending the mandate of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which ends Jan. 31, following a disagreement between the US and Russia. Moscow has demanded the UN secretary general’s special advisor…

Bangkok Post

Lao police seize 36m speed pills

Police in Laos have made their second-biggest single seizure of illegal drugs, totalling 36 million methamphetamine pills, a United Nations official said on Saturday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hezbollah Is Using UNIFIL to Deliver Political Messages

The repeated attacks against the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are political messages from Hezbollah and Iran to the UN and international community. Three attacks against the peacekeeping force were reported in one month alone. Never have there been this many attacks against the international troops in the…

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UN: Lebanon Crisis Robbing Young People of their Futures

More than four in 10 young Lebanese over just a 12-month period, reduced spending on education to buy basic food, medicine and other essential items, and nearly a third, have been forced to stop studying altogether, a UN report said Friday. The report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) showed…

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Al Jazeera

UN rights chief says response to Myanmar crisis ‘ineffectual’

Michelle Bachelet demands quick restoration of civilian rule in the country almost a year after the military takeover.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 29 January 2022

Free speech. Covid misinformation. Spotify. Joe Rogan. Neil Young. This scandal is a Search Engine Optimisation specialist's dream come true. The latest victim of the culture war is culture itself.

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UN human rights chief negotiating long-awaited visit to Xinjiang after Winter Olympics

Michelle Bachelet , the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is discussing with China a potential visit to the Xinjiang region, in what could provide rare, close-up foreign scrutiny of accusations of abuses against ethnic Uyghurs.

ABC News

How Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage ended up on a collision course with the Moon

The Moon's pockmarked surface will gain a fresh crater in about five weeks. So how did a spent rocket stage accidentally end up on track to crash into the lunar surface?

The Independent UK

US will ‘present the facts of the case’ against Russia to UN Security Council, officials say

The US is turning to the United Nations Security Council in hopes of engaging Russia in ‘preventative diplomacy’ as Ukrainian legislators ask their American counterparts for preemptive sanctions against Moscow

The Conversation

China's plan for Xinjiang, plus what's lurking in your household dust? The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episde: China’s plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region’s persecuted Uyghurs, published on January 27, 2022.

The Guardian - UK

China’s ambassador to US warns of possible military conflict over Taiwan

Unusually explicit reference to prospect of war comes as tensions over island’s future continue to rise

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