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Japanese authorities should compensate the former head of the Nissan-Renault alliance, Carlos Ghosn, for his lengthy and repeated “arbitrary” detention, a UN human right panel has concluded.

The global economy will contract by a staggering 4.3 percent this year, according to a report by the UN Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The agency expects global recovery of 4.1 percent in 2021.

Former British war reporter and lawmaker Martin Bell said the UK must stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia because the desert kingdom’s military coalition is indiscriminately bombing civilians in its war with Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who brought an avalanche of attention to the World Economic Forum's ‘Great Reset’ when a video of him talking about the plan surfaced earlier this week, now says it's a “conspiracy theory.”

Accusations of human rights violations on the Crimean Peninsula are an invention, according to a leading Russian politician, who has told United Nations representatives to visit the region and see for themselves.

The current pace of Ethiopian refugee arrivals in Sudan is faster than has been seen in the last two decades, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday, as thousands of people fled ongoing fighting in Tigray region.