Viet Nam: UN rights office condemns crackdown on climate activists

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday expressed grave concern at the spate of recent arrests and convictions of human rights defenders pushing for clean energy reforms in Viet Nam.

UK climate activists arrested after throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh's painting

London/IBNS: Two women members of climate campaign group Just Stop Oil, an organization protesting fossil fuel extraction in Britain, were arrested after they entered the National Gallery in London and threw two cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” on Friday.