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- MATTHEW GREEN
London, UK
Reuters
All the world's governments have fallen short on pledges made a decade ago to protect wildlife, though cases of conservation show that the destruction of nature can be slowed, and even reversed, according to a UN report published on Tuesday.
The report outlined recommendations for
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona, Spain
Thomson Reuters Foundation
As the coronavirus pandemic compounds worsening economic pressures from climate change impacts, small island developing nations on Monday appealed for international financial support to help them avert a looming debt crisis.
Ahead of this month's UN General Assembly, the Alliance of Small Island
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- BYRON KAYE
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australian scientists are using sniffer dogs to rescue koalas struggling to survive damaging bushfires as they try to avoid a repeat of last year's high death count of the native animals.
Led by Bear, a border collie and Australian cattle dog cross, Detection Dogs
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- MICHELLE NICHOLS
United Nations
Reuters
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will use his annual address to world leaders next week to push for a global ceasefire until the end of 2020 so countries can fight the coronavirus pandemic, but he said opportunities will be lost because presidents and prime ministers are
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- NATALIE THOMAS and CASSANDRA GARRISON
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
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- JACK JENKINS
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- ABDUL QADIR SEDIQI
Kabul, Afghanistan
Reuters
Khan Agha has endured years of violence in Kunduz, but it was the Taliban's attack on the strategic city in north-eastern Afghanistan, as the government and insurgents were preparing for historic peace talks, that unnerved him.
"Like me, the majority of Kunduz residents are living
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- David Adams
An English council has granted planning permission for the construction of a giant "prayer wall" near the city of Birmingham in the Midlands.
To be located near Coleshill on the outskirts of the city, the 'Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer' will stand 59 metres high - taller than the landmark
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- EMMA FARGE
Geneva/Zurich Switzerland
Reuters
The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said on Monday that we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the elderly after huge losses to COVID-19 in nursing homes across the world "robbed us of a generation of wisdom".
In a speech about the human rights
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- NICOLE WINFIELD
Rome, Italy
AP
Pope Francis has formed an unusual partnership with the agnostic Italian founder of the Slow Food movement while doubling down on calls to protect the environment from profit-driven development that he says harms the world's poorest the most.
Francis on Saturday welcomed Carlo Petrini to
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- KATE KELLAND
London, UK
Reuters
A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed "a world at risk" to a "world in disorder", according to a report on international epidemic preparedness.
"Financial and political investments in preparedness have been insufficient, and
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- EMMA BATHA
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
A harrowing storyline in the popular British soap opera EastEnders could save lives, as a mother is killed by her husband as she tries to flee her toxic marriage following lockdown, domestic abuse charities said.
Reports of domestic abuse have soared around the
