Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
KYIV, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Russia launched dozens of “kamikaze” drones on Ukraine on Monday, hitting energy infrastructure and killing five people in the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainians have nicknamed them “mopeds” for the loud whirring noise their engines make as they fly overhead. Ukraine says they are Iranian-made Shahed-136[Read More…]
UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Grief-stricken relatives sobbed and clutched toys at a children’s daycare center on Friday, a day after a former policeman killed 34 people, most of them young children, in a knife and gun rampage there that has horrified Thailand. Government buildings flew flags at[Read More…]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government filed a lawsuit against five Arizona gun dealers on Monday accusing them of participating in illicit weapons trafficking, a Mexican official told Reuters, in a push to hold retailers responsible for the deadly trade. Mexican leaders have for years blasted illegal arms smuggling from the[Read More…]
NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (Reuters) – India’s top court on Thursday upheld the right of a woman to an abortion up to 24 weeks into pregnancy regardless of marital status, a decision widely hailed by women’s rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally after the U.S. Supreme[Read More…]
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Conservative group Pacific Legal Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Education with the intent of stopping President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the South District of Indiana, comes[Read More…]
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is preparing to formally annex around 15% of Ukrainian territory after referendums on joining Russia in areas controlled by Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists. CAN THE WEST STOP PUTIN? Neither the West nor Ukraine can stop Putin claiming the regions, though the[Read More…]
Sept 26 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after leaking[Read More…]
ROME, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The right-wing alliance that won Italy’s national election will usher in a rare era of political stability to tackle an array of problems besieging the euro zone’s third largest economy, one of its senior figures said on Monday. Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s[Read More…]
WARSAW, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Poland, concerned about fighting around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, has distributed iodine tablets to regional fire departments to give to people in the event of radioactive exposure, a deputy minister said on Thursday. Iodine is considered a way of protecting the body against conditions[Read More…]
Sept 21 (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his family company were sued on Wednesday for what New York state’s attorney general called a decade of fraudulent misstatements of the values of real estate properties to secure favorable loans and tax benefits. Here[Read More…]