Sweden resumes aid to UN agency for Palestinians | Israel War on Gaza News

Sweden resumes aid to UN agency for Palestinians | Israel War on Gaza News

First payment of $20m to be disbursed after Sweden gets assurances of the UNRWA’s checks on spending and personnel. Sweden has said it is resuming aid to the cash-strapped United Nations agency for Palestinians with an initial disbursement of $20m after receiving assurances of extra checks on its spending and…

Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war | Israel War on Gaza News

Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war | Israel War on Gaza News

Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem – In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she…

Iran condemns UN experts’ report on protest crackdown as ‘false’, ‘biased’ | Human Rights News

Iran condemns UN experts’ report on protest crackdown as ‘false’, ‘biased’ | Human Rights News

Report by UN fact-finding mission says Iran’s brutal suppression of 2022 protests amounted to crimes against humanity. Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations,…

Will a four-day work week solve Germany’s labour shortage? | Business and Economy

Will a four-day work week solve Germany’s labour shortage? | Business and Economy

Germany, Europe’s industrial powerhouse, is struggling with a critical labour shortage. By some estimates, two million jobs across the economy are vacant, and half of the country’s companies are unable to find enough workers. Faced with this crisis, dozens of firms are testing a strategy that, on the surface, at…

UN Security Council calls for ceasefire in Sudan during Ramadan | Conflict News

UN Security Council calls for ceasefire in Sudan during Ramadan | Conflict News

Fighting has forcibly displaced more than eight million people, with millions more in need of food and humanitarian aid. The United Nations Security Council has called for a ceasefire in Sudan to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in…

Analysis: Why are Iranian monarchists backing Israel over its Gaza war? | Israel War on Gaza

Analysis: Why are Iranian monarchists backing Israel over its Gaza war? | Israel War on Gaza

As millions of people took to the streets to denounce Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, demanding justice and peace, support for Israel emerged from a surprising quarter: Iranian monarchists. They are supporters of Reza Pahlavi, son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s last…

Why Google’s AI tool was slammed for showing images of people of colour | Technology News

Why Google’s AI tool was slammed for showing images of people of colour | Technology News

America’s founding fathers depicted as Black women and Ancient Greek warriors as Asian women and men – this was the world reimagined by Google’s generative AI tool, Gemini, in late February. The launch of the new image generation feature sent social media platforms into a flurry of intrigue and confusion….

US-led coalition shoots down 15 drones fired by Yemen’s Houthis in Red Sea | Israel War on Gaza News

US-led coalition shoots down 15 drones fired by Yemen’s Houthis in Red Sea | Israel War on Gaza News

US military says it was responding to a large-scale attack by the Iran-aligned group that posed an ‘imminent threat’. United States Navy ships and aircraft have shot down 15 drones fired by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea area. The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that…