Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid. Photo: Alasdair Pal / ReutersForeign Minister Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives has won an election as the next president of the United Nations General Assembly. Shahid pledged to push for equal access to coronavirus vaccines, a stronger and greener economic recovery, and stepped-up efforts to tackle climate change.

Demonstrators hold signs outside Manhattan criminal court during a march and rally to demand the end of solitary confinement on June 7, 2021. Photo: Mary Altaffer /  APA new proposal by the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST) calls on the U.S. government to use legislative, executive, and administrative methods to end the “torture” of solitary confinement on inmates in federal detention.

Negotiations break down and strike continues in Colombia; the government is dishonestThe National Strike Committee confirmed this Sunday the suspension of the negotiations with the Colombian government due to its non-compliance with the pre-agreement, which has as fundamental axes the guarantee of the right to peaceful protest and demilitarization in all regions of the country.

A Palestinian youth pets a cat in a building heavily damaged during recent Israeli strikes, on June 1, 2021, in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, more than a week after a ceasefire brought an end to 11 days of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian resistance fighters. Palestinian agricultural authorities say the total losses that the sector suffered as a result of the recent Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip are estimated to stand at $204 million.

Protesters hold a sign reading "Reparations to descendants instead of 'development aid' to Namibia" at a demonstration in Berlin on May 28. Germany's offer to fund projects in Namibia worth $1.22 billion over 30 years in compensation for its genocide and property seizures in its former African colony is "not enough," says Namibia’s Vice President Nangolo Mbumba.