Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
A Siberian doctor who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year has gone missing, Russian police said on Sunday. Police in the Omsk region, about 2,200 km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow, said physician Alexander Murakhovsky had left a hunting base in[Read More…]
An Israeli air strike in Gaza destroyed several homes on Sunday, killing 42 Palestinians, including 10 children, health officials said, as militants firedrockets at Israel with no end in sight to seven days offighting. The Israeli military said the civilian casualties had been unintentional and that it had attacked a[Read More…]
Tens of thousands of Palestinian worshippers packed into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on the final Friday of Ramadan and many stayed on to protest in support of Palestinians facing eviction from homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers. With health restrictions mostly lifted following Israel’s swift COVID-19 vaccine campaign, worshippers huddled[Read More…]
The Swiss government said on Thursday a U.S. announcement to support waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines was a significant announcement but left many questions unanswered. “This is an important announcement by the U.S., but many questions remain unanswered about the specific solutions it is considering in this context,”[Read More…]
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain urged Israel on Thursday to halt its decision to further building of new settlements in the West Bank. “We urge the government of Israel to reverse its decision to advance the construction of 540 settlement units in the Har Homa E area of the[Read More…]
Cuba’s government put an end on Sunday to a week-long hunger strike staged by a leading dissident – the head of a group that has protested state censorship of artistic works – and was reported by authorities to be in stable condition. A note published by the Havana Department of[Read More…]
A huge car bomb blast killed at least 30 people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province on Friday, officials said. The car detonated in Logar’s capital of Pul-e Alam near the home of the former head of the provincial council and not far from a hospital, Didar[Read More…]
Britain will send another 1,000 ventilators to India, the government said on Sunday, stepping up its support as India’s healthcare system struggles to cope with a huge surge in cases of COVID-19. India has reported more than 300,000 daily cases for more than 10 days straight, leaving hospitals, morgues and[Read More…]
Argentina has frozen the price of medicinal oxygen for 90 days and directed liquid oxygen producers in the country to give priority to the health system due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, the government said on Thursday. The country is getting hit by a second wave of infections, pushing[Read More…]
The United States on Thursday said it will boost public climate finance to help poor countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate, doubling funding by 2024 from average levels hit during the Obama administration. The White House said it was embracing “ambitious but attainable goals” for[Read More…]