Afghanistan
This story broke in the US but the people at its sharp end were Afghans. Namely, they were the 10 Afghans, including seven children, blown to pieces in a botched US drone strike in August. The findings of a Pentagon review, released today, found that there was no misconduct involved in the bombing. “It was an honest mistake. But it’s not criminal conduct, random conduct, negligence,” US Air Force Lieutenant General Sami Said said. No punishment has been recommended for anyone involved. You won’t find this story leading the news anywhere today. You will find it buried far down the homepages of most US and international outlets. It didn’t take long for the media to revert to business as usual and stop caring about Afghan lives.
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Iran
A major breakthrough today as Iran announced it would resume talks on a nuclear deal with world powers on November 29th in Austria’s capital Vienna. Donald Trump unilaterally yanked the US out the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran against the wishes of the other signatories to the deal. “We agreed to start the negotiations aiming at removal of unlawful and inhumane sanctions on 29 November in Vienna,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on Twitter.
More from the Guardian here.
Nigeria
Anger is growing in Nigeria over the collapse of a building in a wealthy suburb of Lagos. At least 20 people died in the disaster and, though some people are still unaccounted for, reports say the rescue operation has become careless. "It's a retrieval operation. Not a rescue operation. They're not taking care to search for bodies. One of the bodies they pulled out this morning was dismembered by the excavator," Bakare Farati, a relative at the site, told the BBC today.
More from BBC here.