In its resolution 53/26, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner to monitor and follow up on the implementation of the recommendations made by the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, including those on accountability, and to continue to track progress in the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, with the support of specialist experts and in complementarity to the work of the Independent Mechanism for Myanmar and thereports of the Special Rapporteur, and to present an oral u

The South Korean military says an Air Force fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs outside a training range, damaging buildings and injuring civilians.

The incident happened in Pocheon, about 40 kilometers northeast of the capital Seoul, shortly after 10:00 a.m. Thursday, local time.

Firefighters say two homes and a church were damaged, and seven people were injured, two of them seriously.

The United Nations Environment Programme says talks will resume in August this year to put together a draft for the first-ever international treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution.

The meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution will be held in Geneva, Switzerland.