Civilians Caught In DR Congo "Carnage": HRW Daily Brief

Violence in the Kasai region of DR Congo has caused "immense suffering", and with Congolese authorities unable or unwilling to stop the carnage an independent, international investigation is now needed. Up to 1,000 people - and possibly more - have been killed since large-scale violence broke out in the region in August 2016. Residents of the Afghan capital Kabul are beginning to bury their dead after a massive truck bomb in the city's diplomatic quarter yesterday killed 90 people and injured 400 more. It was the deadliest bombing for decades in the country, and comes as civilian casualties there reach record levels, but EU leaders are still insisting that Kabul is a safe city for failed Afghan asylum seekers to be returned to. China has said it will "honour its commitments on climate change", just as the US appears poised to pull out of a key environmental agreement. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said fighting climate change was in China's own interest, yet reports suggest that US President Donald Trump may soon announce his decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, under which countries around the world agreed to limit the global rise in temperature attributed to emissions. It's just one week to go until Britons go to the polls, but despite weeks of campaigning, women's rights have been noticeably lacking from the political debate in the UK. An Indian army officer who used a bystander unlawfully as a human shield was commended for handling a successful evacuation, rather than being punished for his actions. At least seven people were killed and 50 injured by a powerful cyclone in Cox's Bazar district in southeast Bangladesh, which is home to refugee camps for Muslim Rohingyas who were forced to flee their homes to escape communal violence and a crackdown by the Burmese army. Global investors are following what is billed as the world’s largest initial public offering with Saudi Aramco’s plans to float in 2018. Yet as investors weigh putting money into a state-controlled oil company, they should worry about whether they could end up subsidizing Saudi war crimes in Yemen. New laws have been published in Rwanda restricting candidates’ use of social media, a move which is expected to further stifle critical debate in the country ahead of elections in August.