Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
OSLO, April 20 (Reuters) – The Norwegian government formally apologized to gay men on Wednesday for a law that once criminalized sexual intercourse between men. Some 119 individuals were convicted and sent to jail between 1902 and 1950 under a law that was abolished 22 years later, on April 21, 1972. On[Read More…]
PRAGUE, April 20 (Reuters) – The number of people fleeing Ukraine to escape Russia’s invasion has passed 5 million in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the end of World War Two, U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday. Russia’s invasion has triggered a massive displacement of people in the nearly eight weeks since[Read More…]
BENGALURU, April 18 (Reuters) – At least 88 people have been arrested in India in connection with violence against police after a comment insulting Muslims went viral on social media, police said on Monday. A mob attacked police and vandalized public property on Saturday night in Hubli, 480 km (250 miles) north[Read More…]
LVIV, Ukraine, April 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine on Tuesday said it arrested the Kremlin’s most prominent ally in the country as Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his strongest signal yet the war will grind on, warning peace talks were at a dead end. In February, Ukraine said Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of[Read More…]
LISBON, April 12 (Reuters) – A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday the nearly 300 testimonies of alleged victims it has collected so far were “just the tip of the iceberg.” “There have been multiple cases of sexual abuse of children and teenagers in the[Read More…]
KAMPALA, April 12 (Reuters) – An elephant trampled to death a Colombian researcher who was studying chimpanzees in Kibali National Park in western Uganda, authorities said. Sebastian Ramirez Amaya, who was at Arizona State University (ASU) in the United States, was killed on Sunday while conducting research in the forest with his[Read More…]
COPENHAGEN, April 11 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Health Agency, concerned by the war in Ukraine, will buy 2 million iodine tablets to protect people in the event of a nuclear accident close to the Nordic country, it said on Monday. Iodine is considered a way of protecting the body against conditions such as[Read More…]
April 11 (Reuters) – Russia will not pause its military operation in Ukraine for subsequent rounds of peace talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Russian officials say peace talks with Ukraine are not progressing as rapidly as they would like, and have accused the West of trying to derail[Read More…]
April 6 (Reuters) – Pinterest PINS.N is banning false and misleading climate change information and conspiracy theories in content and ads on its social media platform, it said on Wednesday. The company said in a blog post it would not allow content that could “harm the public’s well-being, safety or trust,” such as material that denies[Read More…]
CHICAGO, April 6 (Reuters) – For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard to woo farmers on its benefits for their crops. Now, facing[Read More…]