12 h. ago Cambodia claims Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory near shelters for displaced people

Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia has entered a second week, with Cambodia claiming Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory

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40 h. ago Cambodia shuts border as fighting rages with Thailand despite Trump’s ceasefire claim

Thailand and Cambodia both dispute claims that ceasefire had been reached as said by the US president

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59 h. ago President of Peace? How Trump’s claim to have ended eight wars unravelled

The US president boldly claimed to have sold thorny dispute between adversaries including Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, and Israel and Lebanon. But experts tell Alex Croft that his peace agreements do not stand up to scrutiny

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69 h. ago Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continues despite Trump claim of renewed ceasefire

Trump announced the agreement after calls with Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian prime minister Hun ManetThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedCambodia said Thai forces including fighter jets continued to strike targets across their disputed border hours after Donald Trump said both countries leaders had agreed to renew a truce brokered in October that has been strained by days of deadly clashes.“Thai forces have not stopped the bombing yet and are still continuing the bombing,” the Cambodian ministry of information said. Thailand’s military countered with accusations that Cambodia was committing “repeated violations of international rules” by targeting civilian locations and laying landmines. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Thailand deny Trump ceasefire claim as battles with Cambodia continue at border

Thai PM says military will keep fighting and Cambodia suspends border crossings as casualties riseThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedThailand’s caretaker prime minister has denied the existence of a ceasefire with Cambodia, despite US president Donald Trump announcing that both countries had agreed to halt fighting, as heavy clashes continued along the border between the two countries.Prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday that Thailand had not agreed to a ceasefire with Cambodia and that its forces would continue fighting. Cambodia, meanwhile, announced it had suspended all border crossings with Thailand. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Thailand and Cambodia agree second ceasefire after calls from Trump as 20 dead & hundreds wounded while fighting flared

DONALD Trump has claimed on Truth Social that Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to a second ceasefire following talks with the U.S. President. The Southeast Asian nations have been engaged in multiple bloody clashes along their 508-mile shared border since Monday. This week’s unrest, which included the firing of rockets and artillery, has killed at...

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7 d. ago Syrians celebrate a year after Bashar Assad’s fall, in photos

As celebrations kicked off marking the first anniversary on Monday of the ousting of former President Bashar Assad’s regime, Syrians are still struggling to heal after the dynasty’s repressive 50-year rule and a 14-year civil war that killed an estimated half-million people, displaced millions more and left the country battered and divided.

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1 week ago Photos of youths roaring over Gaza sand dunes in a return to prewar tradition

Motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles ripped over rolling sand dunes overlooking the ruins and camps of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of young men flew over sand dunes, spinning in circles and lifting the front wheels of their bikes into the air as their engines roared.

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1 week ago US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC– report

Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolitionUp to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”, according to a report by campaign group Global Witness.The project, labelled the Lobito Corridor, aims to upgrade the colonial-era Benguela railway from the DRC to Lobito on Angola’s coast and improve port infrastructure, as well as building a railway line to Zambia and supporting agriculture and solar power installations along the route. Angola has said it needs $4.5bn (£3.4bn) for its stretch of the line. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DR Congo – report

Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line from DRC to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolitionUp to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”, according to a report by campaign group Global Witness.The project, labelled the Lobito Corridor, aims to upgrade the colonial-era Benguela railway from the DRC to Lobito on Angola’s coast and improve port infrastructure, as well as building a railway line to Zambia and supporting agriculture and solar power installations along the route. Angola has said it needs $4.5bn (£3.4bn) for its stretch of the line. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Floods and cyclonic storms across Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia leave over 1,200 dead and hundreds missing

Catastrophic flooding displaces more than four million people

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2 w. ago Floods and cyclonic storms across Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia leave over 900 dead and hundreds missing

Catastrophic flooding displaces more than four million people

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2 w. ago How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide

Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the regionTropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rains to lay waste to swathes of Asia, killing close to 1,000 people and leaving many more homeless.Parts of the Indonesian archipelago have been particularly hard hit, with the death toll reaching 442 following flooding that began about a week ago, a number that is expected to rise. Nearly 300,000 people have been displaced and nearly 3,000 houses damaged, including 827 that were flattened or swept away. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Floods and cyclonic storms across Asia leave over 700 dead and hundreds missing

Catastrophic floodings has displaced more than four million people while death toll is set to climb

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3 w. ago There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning fossil fuels, gorging on meat and dairy, and failing to make even simple changes, the rich world imposes a massive burden of disaster, displacement and death on people whose responsibility for the climate crisis is minimal. What I’ve now stumbled into is the vast black hole of our ignorance about these impacts.What I wanted to discover was whether it’s true that nine times as many of the world’s people die of cold than of heat. The figure is often used by people who want to delay climate action: if we do nothing, some maintain, fewer will die. Of course, they gloss over all the other impacts of climate breakdown: the storms, floods, droughts, fires, crop failures, disease and sea level rise. B...

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3 w. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post

Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza CityIsraeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women. Continue reading...

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