Group behind ‘alternative Nobel’ is concerned that Cambodia barred activists from going to Sweden | AP News

Group behind ‘alternative Nobel’ is concerned that Cambodia barred activists from going to Sweden | AP News

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The foundation that awards the Right Livelihood Award expressed concern Tuesday over a decision by Cambodia to bar three environmental activists who are serving suspended prison sentences for their advocacy work from traveling to Sweden to receive the prize known as the “alternative Nobel.” The Right Livelihood Foundation also called for the

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UN envoy calls for a ‘unified mechanism’ to lead reconstruction of Libya’s flood-wrecked city | AP News

UN envoy calls for a ‘unified mechanism’ to lead reconstruction of Libya’s flood-wrecked city | AP News

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in divided Libya on Monday called for a unified mechanism to lead the reconstruction of a coastal city that was wrecked by devastating floods last month.U.N. Special Envoy for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily said in a statement that such a mechanism is required amid “unilateral and competing initiatives”

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Kenya’s president welcomes UN Security Council’s approval to send a Kenya-led mission to Haiti | AP News

Kenya’s president welcomes UN Security Council’s approval to send a Kenya-led mission to Haiti | AP News

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president on Tuesday welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s resolution to send a Kenya-led multinational armed force to Haiti to help combat violent gangs and pledged that it will “not fail the people of Haiti.”President William Ruto’s remarks came hours after Monday’s vote at the United Nations, marking the first time

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Brazil’s government starts expelling non-Indigenous people from two native territories in the Amazon | AP News

Brazil’s government starts expelling non-Indigenous people from two native territories in the Amazon | AP News

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.The South American nation’s intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal is to return the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacaja

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Armenia’s parliament votes to join the International Criminal Court, straining ties with ally Russia | AP News

Armenia’s parliament votes to join the International Criminal Court, straining ties with ally Russia | AP News

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s parliament voted Tuesday to join the International Criminal Court, a move that further strains the country’s ties with its old ally Russia after the court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over events in Ukraine.Moscow last month called Yerevan’s effort to join the the ICC an “unfriendly step,”

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India police search journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids on media | AP News

India police search journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids on media | AP News

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India’s few remaining independent news outlets.The raids came months after Indian authorities searched

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