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The UN rights chief calls for the creation of a new "mechanism" tasked with preparing criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority. SOUNDBITE
According to a 119-page Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday, thousands of children as young as 8 years old work in Indonesia’s tobacco industry, which is the fifth largest in the world.
Thailand becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, in a historic parliamentary vote hailed as a "victory" by campaigners. The senate upper house gives final approval -- by 130 votes to four, with 18 abstentions -- to changes to the marriage law allowing same-sex couples to tie the knot. IMAGES
The White House applauds the adoption of the foreign aid legislation and urges the US lower House to approve the long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war efforts against Russia. "The president urges the House to send this legislation to his desk immediately so that he can sign it into law," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urges voters to back the referendum on rights and recognition for Indigenous citizens, as voters begin to cast their ballots. SOUNDBITE
Armenia urges to send a mission to monitor treatment of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized back control of the enclave run for decades by separatists. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan asks for "an immediate deployment of an interagency mission by the United Nations to Nagorno-Karabakh with the aim to monitor and access the human rights" at the UN's Assembly General in New York. SOUNDBITE
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