Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
SOFIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A far-right nationalist candidate in Bulgaria’s Nov. 14 presidential election was detained and charged with hooliganism and infliction of an injury over a weekend attack on an LGBT community center in Sofia, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Boyan Rasate, a politician known for his strong anti-LGBT[Read More…]
NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Britain’s Prince Andrew should be prepared for a civil trial late next year on accusations that he sexually abused a woman when she was under 18 and also being abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District[Read More…]
GLASGOW, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Nearly 90 countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels, a pact aimed at tackling one of the main causes of climate change, a senior Biden administration official said. The[Read More…]
KABUL, Nov 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations children’s agency said it was planning to set up a system to directly fund Afghan teachers, after the international community placed a freeze on funding to the Taliban-led administration. “UNICEF is setting up a system that will allow direct payments to teachers[Read More…]
KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) – At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site in central Kabul, officials said. The explosions hit the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital and were[Read More…]
GLASGOW, Nov 1 (Reuters) – COP 26, a U.N. conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change, kicked off on Monday, its task made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments. Here are quotes from key players: BRITISH PRIME[Read More…]
ROME, Oct 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said his government’s handling of a security agreement with Australia and Britain had been “clumsy” and sought to turn the page during his first meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron since a diplomatic crisis last month between Washington and its oldest[Read More…]
OTTAWA, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Developed nations are set to be three years late meeting a pledge to commit a total of $500 billion to help poorer countries tackle climate change and realize this has damaged mutual trust, Alok Sharma, the president of the upcoming COP26climate conference, said on Monday.[Read More…]
GENEVA, Oct 25 (Reuters) – UN human rights experts on Monday condemned Washington’s expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, saying they formed part of a policy of “racialised exclusion” of Black Haitians at U.S. ports of entry. Under its so-called Title 42 policy passed last year by the administration of[Read More…]
The Red Cross on Friday urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis. Afghanistan has been plunged into crisis by the abrupt end of billions of dollars in foreign assistance following[Read More…]