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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the world desk.
Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella has faced condemnation after posting footage that he said showed the bodies of 23 guerrillas killed in a military operation in the Colombian Amazon.
The UN General Assembly is due to vote on September 4 on a Togo-sponsored resolution urging a shift away from the Mercator projection toward maps that represent Africa’s area more accurately.
The World Meteorological Organization says El Niño is certain to persist through February and could become the strongest episode in decades.
Three claimants have filed a test case seeking compensation from South Africa’s government over the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, potentially opening a path for further claims.
Gloria Steinem, the US journalist and feminist organiser who helped bring women’s rights into mainstream political debate, has died at her New York home aged 92.
Rescue teams are using helicopters and zip lines to reach isolated communities after flooding along the Nepal-China border killed more than 1,270 people.
Lawyers for journalist Don Lemon say federal prosecutors have not clarified whether Verizon supplied phone records sought through a Department of Homeland Security administrative summons.
A Maltese jury found businessman Yorgen Fenech not guilty of both charges he faced over the 2017 killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
