Cop27 host Egypt warns UK not to backtrack from climate agenda
Unusual diplomatic intervention prompted by fears over Liz Truss’s commitment to net zero The Egyptian government, host of the next UN climate summit, has warned...
Month : October 2022
Young people demand climate justice in run-up to Cop27 UN talks
Activists from global south demand recompense for damage from countries most responsible for crisis Young people from some of the countries most affected by climate...
Brazil election 2022: live results from the presidential race
Incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Lula will go to a runoff election at the end of the month after a tighter than expected first...
Brazil elections 2022 live: Lula in the lead with 90% of votes counted but run-off likely
Latest updates: leftwing former president edges ahead in vote in world’s fourth-largest democracy ‘We want no more hatred’: leftwing ex-president Lula on verge of comeback...
‘A day of hope’: Lula fans eager to see Bolsonaro defeated
Supporters of leftwing frontrunner confident he will prevail as 156 million Brazilians cast their votes Gabriela Leoncio has been waiting for the chance to free...
Polls put Lula on brink of comeback victory over Bolsonaro in Brazil
But hopes leftwing former president will defeat Jair Bolsonaro tempered by fear a runoff contest could mean weeks of turmoil and violence Brazil’s former leftwing...
Venezuela swaps prisoners with US in hint of thawing relations
Exchange of Maduro nephews for seven Americans is unusual gesture of goodwill from socialist president but Washington denies any change in policy Venezuela has freed...
Weather tracker: Typhoon Noru wreaks havoc across south-east Asia
As Hurricane Ian hits the Americas, Noru has been ripping through the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand Hurricane Ian has been in the headlines but it...
African unions condemn latest ‘power grab’ in Burkina Faso
West African bloc said country’s second military coup in nine months was ‘inappropriate’ Gunshots rang out in Burkina Faso’s capital amid signs of lingering tensions...
Venezuela’s mining region a hotbed of sex trafficking and violence, UN says
Fact-finding mission reports brutal massacres and sexual slavery in gold-rich arc where armed gangs fight for control Struggling to get by amid Venezuela’s runaway inflation,...
