Bloomberg The United Nations (UN) asked Ethiopia to grant humanitarian agencies access to the embattled Tigray region and allow independent investigations into alleged war crimes. The continuing lack of access, coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas, increases concerns about the circumstances for civilians, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on ...

Bloomberg The US Commerce Department added more than 100 Chinese and Russian companies to a new list of firms it says have links to their nations’ militaries, a move that will sharply curtail certain types of exports. The list of 58 Chinese and 45 Russia companies means anyone seeking to sell items that could eventually be used for military purposes ...

Bloomberg Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered authorities to investigate the shooting death of a prominent Afghan journalist — the fifth reporter to be killed in less than two months as the government and the Taliban push ahead with peace talks to end the country’s 19 year conflict. Ghani described the murder as an “attack on freedom of speech and a ...