Top UN Officials Resign Over The Organization’s Incapability To Protect Human Rights In Palestine
November 30, 2023
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…]
“Operation Trick or Treat” was a two-day investigation conducted in the Sugar Land area on Oct. 20-21, executed by the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office and Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office. The operation lead to the arrest of 26 alleged sex buyers, also known as “johns”, court documents show[Read More…]
A lot of recent drama related to school boards has been related to Denetta Williams. The Fort Bend ISD board of trustees said in this week’s board meeting that “Williams used disparaging language to refer to district staff and trustees, including calling them ‘garbage, sewage, and trash,”. The board voted[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…]
There is at least one confirmed challenger to incumbent Fort Bend County Judge KP George for the upcoming November election. Republican Trever Nehls, twin brother of U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, has decided to raise his hand and run for the county’s top elected position in 2022. Nehls had been teasing[Read More…]
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday to provide aid to Americans returning from Afghanistan, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law. The “Emergency Repatriation Assistance for Returning Americans Act” provides $10 million in emergency funds, although[Read More…]
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) – For the first since 2001 there are no American troops in Afghanistan after the United States completed the evacuation of most of its citizens and thousands of at-risk Afghans. More than 114,000 people have been airlifted from Kabul airport in the past two weeks as[Read More…]
PARIS, Aug 18 (Reuters) – French health authorities reported on Wednesday that the number of patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) for COVID-19 has risen above 2,000 for the first time since June 14. That figure has more than doubled in less than a month as the highly[Read More…]