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Jul 3, 2025 - World

Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate changeThere is a human right to a stable climate and states have a duty to protect it, a top court has ruled.Announcing the publication of a crucial advisory opinion on climate change on Thursday, Nancy Hernández López, president of the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR), said climate change carries “extraordinary risks” that are felt particularly keenly by people who are already vulnerable. Continue reading...

Jul 3, 2025 - World

Court halts ruling that allowed migrants to challenge removal to countries where they could be in dangerThe supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to deport the eight men who have been held for weeks at an American military base in Djibouti to war-torn South Sudan, a country where almost none of them have ties.Most of the men are from countries including Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar. Just one is from South Sudan. Continue reading...

Jul 3, 2025 - World

Brazilian president meets Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her flat in Buenos Aires after regional summitBrazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has eschewed a one-on-one meeting with the Argentinian president, Javier Milei, during a trip to Buenos Aires, instead opting to visit Milei’s political rival, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is under house arrest.Lula was in the Argentinian capital on Thursday to attend the Mercosur summit. Continue reading...

Jul 3, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump staged a Thursday morning phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin where they discussed issues including a ceasefire with Ukraine, as well as diplomatic solutions with Iran, Reuters reported.Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Trump "again raised the issue of an early end to military action" in Ukraine, but that Putin refused to back down from accomplishing his original goals for the region."Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said."Our president also said that Russia will achieve the goals it has set: that is, the elimination of the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current acute confrontation, and Russia will not back down from these goals," he added.Reuters reported that the phrase "root causes" Putin used "is shorthand for the Kremlin's argument that it was compelled to go to war in Ukraine to prevent the country from joining NATO and being used by the Western alliance as a launch pad to attack Russia."Ushakov said that Putin and Trump "did not talk about the U.S. decision to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine."Trump has not yet spoken about the phone call.Read the Reuters story here.

Jul 3, 2025 - World

Commissioner says two women were attacked by female elephant that was with a calfTwo female tourists from the UK and New Zealand have been killed by an elephant while on a walking safari in a national park in Zambia, police in the southern African country have said.The Eastern Province police commissioner, Robertson Mweemba, said the victims, whom he named as 68-year-old Easton Janet Taylor from the UK and 67-year-old Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand, were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf. Continue reading...