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Former UN Deputy Secretary General on the role of the UN in today's biggest conflicts
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown about the relevance of the U.N.
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Three arrested in South Africa over one of nine women's bodies found
The body of Jabulile Ntimba was the ninth to be found recently in an area east of Johannesburg.
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Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form new alliance
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together.
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Merz insists he will stay as German chancellor despite heavy losses in state elections – Europe live
CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9% Speaking of EU sanctions, Kaja Kallas this morning in her condemnation of the Russian election fixing, also called for penalties against those who had helped stage the vote in occupied Ukraine. She said she had “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories”. European Parliament members have also deplored the vote held in “the world’s least-free territories” which they said were staged under martial law, “amid coercion, forced passportisation, door-to-door balloting in the presence of armed personnel and credible reports of grave human rights violations.” More widely, the Duma vote had been held in the “most repressive environment” with “criminalisation and elimination of political opposition”, read a
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Mystery object spotted hovering over Tehran
A mysterious object filmed hovering over Tehran has sparked online speculation.
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Latest German election humiliation puts Merz on borrowed time as CDU unrest grows
Chancellor acknowledges disastrous state election results but vow to push on is likely to further alienate voters, and his own party • Europe live – latest updates Friedrich Merz called it a “disaster”, and that was even before the full scale of the catastrophe for himself and his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came into view after Sunday’s state elections . In what one outlet called a “power move” , the German chancellor made a highly unusual televised speech just minutes after polls closed in the states of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, attempting to get ahead of the narrative with a pledge to stay on and fight for his economic recovery programme . Continue reading...