The development is the latest step in the accelerated withdrawal process of the Mission, known as MINUSMAwhich is due to leave the West African country by the end of the year after a decline in operation. The 143 vehicles left Kidal on 31 October and traveled nearly 350 kilometers, transportingContinue Reading
Miroslav Jenča, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, voiced concern over the “continued, near-daily attacks” on civilians and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine. “Thousands of civilians have been killed or injured and millions have been displaced,” he told ambassadors, adding that nearly half of the population – an estimated 17.6 millionContinue Reading
“The 2023 Production Gap report is a starting indicator of runaway climate carelessness,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message accompanying the landmark report. This hike in fuel extraction comes despite 151 national governments having pledged to achieve net-zero emissions. The latest forecasts suggest that global coal, oil,Continue Reading
The development came as foreign ministers from the G7 group of countries joined international calls on Wednesday for humanitarian pauses in the fighting to protect civilians, help bring in aid and support the release of the more than 240 hostages held captive in Gaza by Hamas since 7 October .Continue Reading
That’s the message from UN World Meteorological Organization (W.M.O.), which said on Wednesday that for the calendar year to date, the global mean temperature is the highest ever recorded, 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and sea ice in the Antarctic remains at record low levels. WMO expects the warmingContinue Reading
Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border crossing, describing it as a “lifeline” for the 2.3 million residents of Gaza over the past month, although “unjustly, outrageously thin.” But it is also “the gates to a living nightmare,” he continued, as people in Gaza “have been suffocating, under persistentContinue Reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a ceasefire in the war against Hamas, which entered its second month on Tuesday, despite repeated calls for a humanitarian truce in Gaza and after a death toll of more than 10,000 in the enclave, according to the Palestinian movement. During the night, aerialContinue Reading
The Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala endorsed this Tuesday the request to remove the jurisdiction of electoral magistrates for alleged anomalies in the purchase of a computer system used in the elections won by the social democrat Bernardo Arevalo. “By majority, the Supreme Court of Justice He processed theContinue Reading
With improvised white flags and sometimes with their hands raised, inhabitants of Loop They fled this Tuesday towards the south of the Palestinian territory among corpses and Israeli troops, following the orders of the Jewish State. “It was terrifying“, said Wave al Ghulwho like thousands of other civilians, fled theContinue Reading
She is the daughter of General Aung San, founding father of Burma, who was assassinated when she was only two years old. Suu Kyi was educated in India and the United Kingdom. In 1988 she returned to Burma to care for her sick mother. Upon her arrival, she found aContinue Reading
