Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
VATICAN CITY, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The world’s children are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, with marked increases in violence, abuse, child labor, lost schooling, and malnutrition, two Vatican studies said on Wednesday. The studies, based on academic, scientific, United Nations data and other source material, were produced[Read More…]
Dec 18 (Reuters) – The National Football League (NFL) has agreed to introduce a new set of COVID-19 protocols including a more targeted testing plan for players amid the emergence of the Omicron variant, it said on Saturday. The NFL on Friday postponed games for the first time all season[Read More…]
Dec 20 (Reuters) – A growing number of countries are reducing the wait time for COVID-19 vaccine boosters from six months to as few as three in a bid to ward off a new surge in infections from the Omicron variant. They are reacting to early evidence suggesting that Omicron[Read More…]
COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Pirates took six hostages during an attack on a commercial container ship in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea on Monday, a spokesperson for the Danish military said on Tuesday. A Danish frigate operating in the area amid heightened security risks from pirates sent[Read More…]
HANOI, Dec 14 (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam jailed a journalist and prominent dissident for nine years on Tuesday for anti-state activities, her lawyers and state media said, in a case that attracted the attention of international human rights groups. Pham Doan Trang, who published material widely on human[Read More…]
Dec 14 (Reuters) – Concerns over the Omicron coronavirus variant and fresh travel restrictions have led to a spike in hotel booking cancellations globally, online hotel search firm Trivago said on Tuesday, threatening to upend a fragile recovery in tourism. Cancellation rates increased to 35% since November and holiday travel[Read More…]
VALLETTA, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Malta became the first European country to allow limited cultivation and possession of cannabis for personal use, following a vote in parliament on Tuesday. Luxembourg announced similar plans in October but its parliament has yet to give its green light to the measure. The law,[Read More…]
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh, and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist. Canada and the United Kingdom joined the United States[Read More…]
VATICAN CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) – A Vatican department has apologized for “causing pain to the entire LGBTQ community” by removing from its website a link to resource material from a Catholic gay rights advocacy group. The website of the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year global consultative[Read More…]
PORT-AU-PRINCE/PEUMO, Chile, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Like thousands of other Haitian migrants, Eric Jean Louis gave up his house and job in Chile earlier this year to trek thousands of miles to the United States after hearing he could receive asylum under President Joe Biden’s new administration. His hopes were[Read More…]