North Korea expands work at nuclear test site to second tunnel, report says

North Korea expands work at nuclear test site to second tunnel, report says

Preparation work at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility’s Tunnel No. 3 was apparently complete and ready for a possible nuclear test, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report, citing commercial satellite imagery. North Korea conducted six underground nuclear tests at the site from 2006 to 2017. The research group said that … Read more

WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuses in Ebola crisis, report says

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The probe was prompted by an investigation last year by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and The New Humanitarian in which more than 50 women accused aid workers from the WHO and other charities of demanding sex in exchange for jobs between 2018-2020. In its long-awaited report, the commission found that some 21 of 83 alleged … Read more

In China, 80,000 children were ‘snatched’ in 2019 by parents fighting for custody, report says

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They wanted to take her 16-month-old to their family home in Gaoyang, several hours’ drive away, Dai said. Her then-husband seemed unsurprised and told her he must have forgotten to mention it, she said. “We never discussed this and there was no prior agreement at all,” she said. “This is not something that I agreed … Read more

Asian banks are failing on climate by channeling billions into coal, report says

Asian banks are failing on climate by channeling billions into coal, report says

Globally, 380 commercial banks lent the coal industry $315 billion over the past two years, according to the report, which was compiled by more than two dozen non-governmental organizations, including Urgewald, Reclaim Finance, Rainforest Action Network and 350.org Japan. The groups say their research is the first to analyze the financiers and investors supporting the … Read more

The world’s most vulnerable face conflict, Covid-19 and climate change in 2021, report says

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The coronavirus, combined with climate change and conflict, is expected to exacerbate already long-running crises in many developing countries next year, according to a new report from the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a major US humanitarian group. Despite the gravity of the pandemic, the direct impact of Covid-19 in areas where the IRC operates was … Read more