Week in pictures: An earthquake in Taiwan to Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem
A roundup of some of last week’s events.
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SUBSCRIBER+MEMBER EXCLUSIVE – The battle for semiconductors, a core ingredient of both basic and advanced technologies – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) – has long been thought of as the purview of the private sector. Not anymore. Supply chain weakness exposed by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and concerns…
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying blend of Western and Ethiopian influences, died March 26 at her convent in Jerusalem. She was 99. Her niece, Hanna…
More than 470 prisoners of war return home on both sides after the swap deals stalled in the latter half of 2023. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia’s invasion began in February 2022. Ukrainian officials said on…
Residents of Belgorod moved away from the border while Ukraine deflects another barrage of drones and missiles. Russia has partially evacuated Belgorod and has requests for further removals following Ukrainian air strikes on the border city. About 300 residents from the city have been temporarily moved to safety further from…
Hate speech – including online – has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world, says UN chief. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 13 (IPS) – Islamophobia is a ‘fear, prejudice…
Marta Valiñas, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, presented its latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, which covers the period from January 2020 to August this year. The report, which was published last week, focused on two areas: the various “repression mechanisms” used…
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