Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
Not even the rainy midday weather stopped hundreds of Fort Bend County Beto supporters from gathering to hear what the former El Paso Congressman had to say. Beto O’Rourke, continues his run for Governor of Texas, and visits Sugar Land where he was greeted like an old friend, with people[Read More…]
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WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law a bill calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures against the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who extended his grip on power in an election that Washington denounced as a sham. Biden, who has[Read More…]
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers mediating on the crisis in Myanmar called on Monday for its military rulers to free prisoners and start an agreed political dialog, expressing disappointment at “very slow” progress so far. The United Nations, Western countries and China back the effort by the 10 member Association of[Read More…]
Sudan’s prime minister called for a unified national army on Tuesday in a bid to protect a fragile political transition, amid tensions between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “The big question today is will Sudan exist or not exist,” Abdalla Hamdok said at a press[Read More…]
Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a U.S. border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a report by a human rights group released on Tuesday. The report, by New York-based Human Rights First, documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in[Read More…]
Myanmar security forces backed by armored vehicles clashed on Tuesday with a newly formed guerrilla group in the second biggest city Mandalay, army-run media, the militias and a witness said, resulting in at least two casualties. Since the army seized power on Feb. 1 and removed Aung San Suu Kyi’s[Read More…]
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