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The U.N. office condemned corporal punishment and called for respect for international human rights obligations....
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The U.N. office condemned corporal punishment and called for respect for international human rights obligations....
Almost four out of every 10 journalists covering the climate crisis and environment issues have been threatened as a result of their work, with 11% subjected to physical violence, according to groundbreaking new research....
Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia....
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....
“The very soul of Europe is at risk,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned fellow European centre-left politicians who had gathered in Rome ahead of a difficult EU election campaign....
A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....
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President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory....
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined....
At least four people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to rescue services....
The strike came after the military said it was launching new air and ground operations in central Gaza in an apparent widening of its nearly eight-month offensive, launched after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. An international medical charity had reported soaring casualties even before Thursday’s strike....
A lethal combination of displacement, disease and malnutrition are killing Gaza’s children as they wither away without healthcare.
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom won’t recover gas sales lost to the Ukraine war for at least a decade....
The prospect of Ukraine suffering severe power cuts this winter is looming over the whole country in the wake of a Russian campaign to target thermal and hydroelectric plants....
The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging....