Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
MADRID, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Dissident Yunior Garcia said on Thursday the protest movement he spearheaded in Cuba would carry on without him despite his leaving the communist-run island for self-exile in Spain. Garcia said he traveled to Spain after the authorities cut his phone lines and those of his[Read More…]
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia, Nov 17 (Reuters) – The Canadian province of British Columbia could introduce a state of emergency on Wednesday to help deal with massive floods that cut access to the country’s largest port and stranded thousands. Mudslides triggered by heavy rains destroyed several major roads and killed at[Read More…]
BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) – China and the United States will ease restrictions on access for journalists from each other’s countries, the official China Daily reported late on Tuesday, citing unnamed Chinese foreign ministry sources. A consensus on journalist visas, among other points, was reached before the virtual summit between[Read More…]
BOGOTA, Nov 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Valentina Ramirez was about to finish her studies when she got pregnant at the age of 18 – an accident that shattered the Colombian teenager’s dreams of earning a technical degree and becoming a flight attendant. “I wanted to continue studying but it[Read More…]
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations or African Union do not live “in space” and will be punished for any lawbreaking, the government said on Thursday, after the arrest of several U.N. employees for unspecified offenses. Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on[Read More…]
JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and senior aides holed up in a nuclear command bunker on Thursday to simulate an outbreak of a vaccine-resistant COVID-19 variant to which children are vulnerable, describing such an eventuality as “the next war.” Israel would brief foreign leaders next[Read More…]
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry said that two cases reported on Thursday of a neurodegenerative disorder in patients in Rio de Janeiro state were not related to beef consumption, tamping down fears of possible “mad cow” disease causing human illness. Federal biomedical institute Fiocruz,[Read More…]
TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov 11 (Reuters) – In a makeshift camp holding hundreds of migrants near a Mexican border crossing to the United States, children sleep on the floor inside tents, with no protection from heat or cold. They do not attend school. Some were born in the United States. Mexican[Read More…]
GLASGOW, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Panama’s top COP26 negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez pumps himself up each morning with ‘reggaeton’ music as the 29-year-old prepares to fight for the future of his country and his generation. “We’re the people who are going to make noise,” Monterrey Gomez told Reuters at[Read More…]
PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) – France’s Catholic Church said on Monday it would sell real estate and, if needed, take out loans to set up a fund to compensate thousands of people sexually abused by clergy. A major investigation found in October that French clerics sexually abused more than 200,000[Read More…]