Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt on Sunday after armed drones targeted his residence in Baghdad.
Why it matters: The drone strike is the latest escalation amid tensions between security forces and Iran-backed militias, who refuse to accept last month's parliamentary election results.
Drought, rising sea levels and melting ice caps are transforming the geopolitical map at the same time China's rise and revanchist Russia are testing the limits of American power.
Driving the news: These dynamics, outlined in the first-ever National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on climate change, released last month, played out this past week at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. President Biden rebuked China's Xi Jinping for failing to show up or present new commitments.
Preliminary evidence collected since Myanmar's military junta seized power shows a systematic attack on civilians “amounting to crimes against humanity," a UN investigator said on Saturday.
Driving the news: The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar has received over 200,000 communications since the army takeover in February and has collected over 1.5 million pieces of evidence that are being analyzed.
An oil tanker explosion in Sierra Leone killed at least 98 people and injured dozens more, AP reported, citing hospital officials.
Driving the news: The explosion took place late Friday after a collision in Wellington, a suburb of the capital, Freetown. Crowds had gathered to collect fuel leaking from the tanker, per AP.
More than 100 world leaders — as well as thousands of diplomats and business leaders — converged on Glasgow, Scotland, on Oct. 31 to try to set new emissions reduction goals at the COP26 climate summit.
The latest: President Biden on Tuesday said that China made a "big mistake" by not showing up to the UN climate summit, adding that Beijing has "lost an ability to influence" other countries as a result.
COP26 is morphing into a climate conference, filled mainly with experts, journalists and bureaucrats who specialize in the subject.
For the opening days, CEO and celebrity sightings had lent a "Davos meets the UN General Assembly" vibe. Heads of state were popping up everywhere — identifiable because they don’t wear ID (they don lapel pins rather than badges).
