Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Sunday a Taliban decree that ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public was “unconscionable.” The order from the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, on Saturday said that if a woman did not cover her face[Read More…]
May 9 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine, saying the West had been “preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea.” Read full story Putin was speaking at the annual Victory Day[Read More…]
KOSICE/VYSNE NEMECKE, Slovakia, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. first lady Jill Biden met Ukrainian refugees in eastern Slovakia on Sunday, the last full day of her tour of Romania and Slovakia to visit U.S. servicemen deployed there and women and children who fled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden spoke to families, volunteers[Read More…]
BERLIN, May 5 (Reuters) – Europe’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the architect of landmark rules to curb the power of U.S. tech giants, called on Thursday for a global approach towards Big Tech to prevent companies taking advantage of enforcement gaps. Vestager, who has handed out billions of euros in fines to[Read More…]
WARSAW, May 5 (Reuters) – An international donors conference in Warsaw on Thursday collecting funds for Ukraine raised around $6.5 billion, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. The conference, aimed at helping Ukraine deal with the economic and humanitarian fallout of Russia’s invasion, was hosted by Poland and Sweden, in cooperation with[Read More…]
May 3 (Reuters) – The United States Supreme Court looks set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a leaked initial draft majority opinion published by Politico on Monday. Read full story As new limits on abortion rights are pursued in the United States and[Read More…]
LVIV, Ukraine, April 30 (Reuters) – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, popping into a bakery and going to the railway station to meet some of the people displaced by the war with Russia. Jolie, 46, is a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency,[Read More…]
JERUSALEM, April 28 (Reuters) – Valerie Bendersky was just seven when he fled to Kazakhstan to escape the Nazi invasion of Ukraine. Nearly 80 years later he has had to abandon his homeland once again, this time in the face of Russian invaders. Bendersky is one of almost 300 Jewish Holocaust survivors[Read More…]
SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia, April 28 (Reuters) – On the otherworldly white salt flats of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, an 11-year-old boy has become a photography success taking quirky and creative pictures of tourists – with a little help from a blue plastic dinosaur toy. Piter Condori makes use of an unusual[Read More…]
GODE, Ethiopia, April 28 (Reuters) – Malnourished children are flooding into the pediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia’s Gode city as the worst drought for 40 years has forced many families to leave their homes to search for aid. On Tuesday, Reuters saw a dozen malnourished children in Gode General[Read More…]