For Europeans, the upcoming UN General Assembly centres on Palestinian statehood, Iran sanctions, UN reform, Ukraine, climate targets, development goals, and humanitarian crises.
Category: 4. World
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What’s at stake at the UN General Assembly?
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As the world convulses in war and contentiousness, its leaders convene at the UN to figure it out
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders begin convening Monday at one of the most volatile moments in the United Nations’ 80-year history, and the challenges they face are as dire as ever if not more so:…
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Oil, coal and gas production plans bury climate change goals : NPR
On the outskirts of Dhanbad, in India’s Jharkhand state, heaps of coal are loaded onto a train car in August. India is the…
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Moldova Elections: Russia’s Plan to Hack the Vote
Russia has devised a plan to intervene in elections in Moldova and disrupt the government’s efforts to keep the country on the path toward European Union membership, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg.
The multi-pronged strategy was…
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Thousands evacuate in Philippines as storm nears
Getty ImagesRagasa comes as the South East Asian nation reels from weeks of widespread flooding caused by an unusually fierce monsoon Thousands have been evacuated in the Philippines as the nation braces for a super typhoon that has been described…
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Hong Kong Airport Considers 36-Hour Closure Due to Super Typhoon Ragasa
Hong Kong International Airport is weighing grounding all passenger flights for 36 hours, the longest in recent history, as the Asian financial hub braces for one of its strongest super typhoons in years, according to people familiar with the…
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Israel unites against hollow recognition of Palestine, but PM could go too far
As was widely expected, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal formally recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday.
Facing intense Israeli anger and accusations of rewarding terror, their leaders argued that the move would…
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Anger in Australia after telecom outage linked to deaths
Australian officials have promised telecommunications giant Optus will face “significant consequences” over a systems outage linked to multiple deaths.
The incident last week left hundreds of people across more than half of the country unable to…
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Speedboat destroyed by U.S. Navy held 1,000 kilos of cocaine, Dominican Republic says
Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, in what the Caribbean nation called the first operation of its kind.
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