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A new UN Human Rights Office report on the crisis in Chile describes multiple human rights violations by the police and army, and calls for reforms.

The loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, says a new report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, released at the UN Climate Change conference in Madrid.

The primary cause of the increase was a series of catastrophic tropical cyclones or hurricanes which hit the region between 2016 and 2018 – including four Category 5 and two Category 4 storms.

Using  a new law, Singapore’s authoritieshave  issued two directives ordering 'corrections' to Facebook posts by a journalist and an opposition politician within the space of a week.