A new law in Brazil could cause “significant environmental harm and human rights violations”, and represents a “rollback for decades” of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a UN expert has told BBC News.
Plans to speed up approvals…
Category: 2. World
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UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel meets conditions
Becky MortonPolitical reporter
PM: UK will recognise Palestinian state unless conditions met The UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”, Sir Keir Starmer has…
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Fighter jet swerves dramatically to avoid birds near packed beach
This is the moment a Spanish fighter jet was forced to perform an evasive manoeuvre during an air show in Gijon.
Video footage shows the Spanish F-18 fighter flying at a low altitude, when it suddenly turns upside down – avoiding a flock of birds…
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Two hours of terror in a New York skyscraper
Madeline HalpertBBC News, New York
Getty ImagesWitnesses could hear and see the gunfire from outside the New York skyscraper after the shooting began For hundreds of employees at 345 Park Avenue, an iconic 44-story skyscraper in the heart of…
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How did Gaza get to the brink of starvation?
Before Hamas’s 7 October attack, around 650 lorries a day brought aid into Gaza.
But now, more than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups have warned of mass starvation in Gaza.
Israel has insisted there are no restrictions on…
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Plan to recognise Palestinian state a big change for British foreign policy
The BBC’s International editor, Jeremy Bowen, described the UK’s plans to recognise a Palestinian state as a “big change for British foreign policy”.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK will recognise a Palestinian state at a UN meeting in…
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VIDEO: Detonating yet another Israeli tank in Gaza
TEHRAN, Jul. 29 (MNA) – The Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, released a new video of the targeting of an Israeli army’s Merkava tank in Gaza’s Tuffah District on Tuesday.
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Yemen fires yet another ballistic missile at ‘Israel’
Israeli media reported on Tuesday evening that yet another missile launch from Yemen.
Flights were suspended at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday.
According to Hebrew-language media, flight operations at Ben Gurion Airport had been…
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Israel is new Nazism in 21st century, Iran’s Ghalibaf says
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made the remarks in Geneva, Switzerland, addressing the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in close collaboration with the United…
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Press conference of Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran
TEHRAN, Jul. 29 (MNA) – Pakistani Ambassador to Iran Muhammad Mudassir Tipu held a press conference at the embassy on Monday and answered questions put to him by reporters.
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