26 January 2020
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Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide 23 January 2020
WHO declines to declare Chinese virus a global health emergency 23 January 2020 plus several other items
Trump drops a climate bomb on Davos 22 January 2020
plus several other items
Six Kremlin Foreign Policy Boasts and Why They're Wrong 21 January 2020
Climate refugees can't be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling 20 January 2020
UN warns hunger crisis in southern Africa 'on scale we've not seen before' 16 January 2020
Swiss police 'exposed Russian spies in Davos' last August 22 January 2020
World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2020 15 January 2020
World's richest 2,000 people hold more than poorest 4.6 billion combined: Oxfam 20 January 2020
Meet the teenage change-makers making waves at Davos 2020 19 January 2020
Davos by the numbers: From climate change to billionaires 20 January 2020
Davos delegates are crying crocodile tears over the climate crisis just like they did over inequality 16 January 2020
The 2020 State of Green Business Report 16 January 2020
UN calls for investigation of Saudis allegedly hacking Jeff Bezos 22 January 2020
Brexit: EU withdrawal bill becomes law 23 January 2020
Are migrants who cross the Channel sent back from the U.K? The answer is not many Iranians 20 January 2020
Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates 13 January 2020
Tropical cyclones causing billions in losses dominate national catastrophe picture of 2019 8 January 2020
How The Ocean Cleanup's mission to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is going 13 January 2020
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 16 January 2020
Climate change protest at Credit Suisse in Lausanne 'necessary and proportional': judge 13 January 2020
1 in 5 countries will see per capita incomes stagnate or decline this year 16 January 2020
US drops designation of China as currency manipulator 13 January 2020
'Orwellian' China silencing dissent at home and abroad, says Human Rights Watch chief 15 January 2020
The Dixie Chicks Were Cancelled For Criticizing President George W. Bush. Nearly 20 years later, they're Heroes. 22 January 2020
Greenwald charges are 'existential threat' to journalism in Brazil, says Edward Snowden 22 January 2020
US drinking water contamination with 'forever chemicals' far worse than scientists thought 22 January 2020
7 countries lose vote in UN General Assembly over arrears 11 January 2020
Central African Republic, Gambia, Lesotho, Tonga and Yemen. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that three other countries — Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia — are also in arrears by the assembly decided in October that they can retain their vote until September.
Five new countries on the UN Security Council 2 January 2020
Tunisia to represent Arab countries. The others are Vietnam, Niger, Estonia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Call for submissions for the 3rd edition of the Oslo Forum Peacewriter Prize — Innovative ideas for leading peacemakers 15 January 2020
Deadline 31 January 2020.
Singapore's fake news law is facing its first real challenge in court 15 January 2020
Innovation Forum "Blockchain Technology in Support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals" concludes at the United Nations 17 January 2020
Currency 'Cold War' Takes Center Stage at Pre-Davos Crypto Confab 16 January 2020
Ad fontes media bias chart. "The public beta version of the Media Bias Chart (version 5.0) is now live. See where the news sources fall on the map of the media landscape." 7 January 2020
UK could forfeit security council seat over Chagos Islands dispute 5 January 2020
The UK has reached a historic milestone as zero carbon electricity outstripped fossil fuels in 2019 for the first time. 2 January 2020
Oxfam: British carbon output tops Africans' many times over 5 January 2020
Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to inspire a 'decade of action' on climate 2 January 2020
As measles deaths top 6,000 in DRC, WHO calls for aid 7 January 2020
UNESCO warns protection of cultural sites amid escalating US-Iran standoff 6 January 2020
Lyft's good-guy image tainted by sexual assault lawsuits 7 January 2020
New Smart City near Cancun Will Include Over 7 Million Plants 8 January 2020
Monaco: the glitzy European city going green 15 January 2020
Al-Shabaab's attacks come amid backdrop of West's waning interest 15 January 2020
French Executives Found Responsible for 35 Employees' Deaths by Suicide 20 December 2019
Edward Snowden's profits from memoir must go to US government, judge rules 20 December 2019
The small cost to end child mining is not a price Big Tech is willing to pay 19 December 2019
The 20 best documentaries of the 2010s 16 December 2019
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