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Yemen: Four children killed or maimed a day, as war grinds on (UN News)

At least 8 children have reportedly been killed or injured in escalating violence in Yemen in the past five days. Yemen: Four children killed or...

‘Climate of fear’ prevails for human rights defenders in Afghanistan (UN News)

Human rights defenders in Afghanistan report that they are now enduring a “climate of fear”, threats, and becoming increasingly desperate over conditions in the country, an independent UN expert said on Wednesday. ‘Climate of fear’...

End war now before it’s too late for Ethiopians, UN rights chief urges fighters (UN News)

All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or else risk pushing the region’s catastrophic humanitarian situation “over...

COP26: ‘Not blah blah blah’, UN Special Envoy Carney presents watershed private sector commitment for climate finance (UN News)

It’s ‘Finance Day’ at COP26, and the spotlight is on a big announcement: nearly 500 global financial services firms agreed on Wednesday to align...

Rebooting the forests and tree cover agenda for climate action (Ramesh Pandey, ORF)

Forests can be both net emitters or net sinks of carbon. Parallely, the release of carbon from forests can be due to natural processes...

Building ‘stable, predicable’ US-Russia ties: dream or reality? (ORF)

On November 2, the Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and CIA Director William Burns met to discuss various issues related to US-Russia ties....

India in the Indo-Pacific: China, COVID-19, and the reconfigured regional order (Harsh V. Pant, Pratnashree Basu, ORF)

With a huge market and the busiest maritime shipping lanes, the Indo-Pacific houses aspiring economies alongside other countries outside the region who have a...

India-GCC: Prospects for post-pandemic trade cooperation and economic recovery (ORF)

Boasting a gilded heritage of trade ties going back to the Dilmun and Indus Valley civilisations, the Gulf states, united under the umbrella of...

Summitry in the East and India’s Asean ambitions (Harsh V. Pant, Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

It was a busy last month in the Indo-Pacific. In the span of a few short days, global leaders convened for the annual Asean and East...

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