Geneva (AFP) – War crimes ‘have been committed’ in the Ukraine conflict says the head of a high-level Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes in Russia’s war in Ukraine, listing Russian bombings of civilians areas, numerous executions, torture and horrific sexual violence. SOUNDBITE
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – “The very international order that we’ve gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. We cannot — we will not — allow President Putin to get away with it,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says at a UN Security Council meeting.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The head of Yemen’s presidential leadership council Rashad al-Alimi says that the Huthis are “looking for any pretext to thwart the truce and impede the UN and international efforts to renew it,” as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.
Islamabad (AFP) – Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie says that catastrophic floods are ‘a real wake-up call’ on climate change after her visit to flood-hit areas in Pakistan.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges a probe into the “catalog of cruelty” in Ukraine’s war as he opens a Security Council meeting with the top Russian and US diplomats.
Geneva (AFP) – WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the Covid-19 ‘pandemic is not over’ but the ‘end is in sight.’
Moscow (AFP) – Protests triggered by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send reservists to Ukraine have led to hundreds of arrests around the country, as Western leaders tore into Putin at the United Nations.
Apuí (Brazil) (AFP) – Wildfires blaze in remote areas of Brazil’s Amazonas State. The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon so far this year has already surpassed that for all of 2021, according to official figures that triggered new alarm for the world’s biggest rainforest.
Amol (Iran) (AFP) – Iranian protesters cheer as flames engulf a governor’s office in the country’s north. Protests in Iran have now claimed at least 11 lives, following the death of a young woman who was detained for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an “improper” way.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – President Joe Biden firmly condemns Russia’s war against Ukraine at the UN General Assembly after President Vladimir Putin made a veiled threat of using nuclear weapons.
