Women and children were killed and injured in a bombing at a camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar. The United Nations says it is deeply concerned.
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Suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan kills at least 9 police officers
At least nine police officers were killed and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Monday. Authorities said the latest in a string of recent attacks against security personnel in the South Asian nation. Kachhi Police senior superintendent Mehmood Notezai said a vehicle carrying policemen was targeted in the province’s Sibi district. Preliminary evidence suggests it was a suicide attack.
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July hit a crucial warming threshold
The world got its first preview last month of what summer will be like at 1.5 degrees of global warming, a threshold that scientists warn the planet should stay under, yet one that it has flown increasingly close to in recent years. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Tuesday that the average global temperature in July, the hottest month on record by far, was around 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era that ended in the mid-to-late 1800s.
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Hunger crisis in troubled Haiti
Four million people face acute food insecurity and one million of them are one step away from famine. The U.N food agency’s director, Jean-Martin Bauer told a virtual press conference that he’s ringing the alarm bell because the recent increase in gang violence has made a very bad situation even worse.
