Restricting aid could be seen as using starvation as a ‘weapon of war’, the UN’s human rights chief says. Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip may amount to a “war crime”, the United Nations human rights chief says. The appraisal on Tuesday followed the release of a…
Dakar, Senegal – A year after his 2012 inauguration as Senegal’s fourth president, Macky Sall delivered a compelling speech – half in French, half in English – at Harvard University in the United States. Sall had won the presidency after a cut-throat election campaign against his mentor and former President…
Armenia could face war by ‘end of the week’ if it does not return four Azerbaijani villages, PM Pashinyan says. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said his country could face a war with neighbouring Azerbaijan if it does not compromise and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since…
In the secluded hills south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Abu al-Kabash used to wake up daily to his prized possession: a grove of pomegranate and fig trees that towered over the six different kinds of aloe plants enveloping his home. That is all gone. Since Israel started…
Continuing air raids in the restive country’s Rakhine state are reported to have killed dozens. The United Nations chief has expressed “alarm” at reports that the Myanmar military is bombing civilian areas. Antonio Guterres called for calm late on Monday following reports that continuing air attacks on villages in the…
Rights groups say proposed rollback of 2015 law will overturn women’s rights across the region as a whole. The Gambia has taken steps towards lifting a ban on female circumcision, a move that could make it the first country in the world to reverse legal protections against the practice for…
Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Rafah, while UN warns Gaza could be hit by famine between mid-March and May. Here’s how things stand on Tuesday, March 19, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli…
Mumbai, India – Loud chants and songs on justice echoed around Shivaji Park in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, as thousands of people gathered at the iconic venue that had played frequent host to rallies by freedom fighters when the country fought for independence from the British decades ago. This time, the…
The regulator will have the power to fine clubs up to 10 percent of their turnover for non-compliance with financial regulations. The British government is planning to establish an independent football regulator to oversee the sport and encourage financial stability via a bill introduced in the parliament. The regulator will…
Montreal, Canada – Marjorie Villefranche has never experienced anything like it. For the past six months, the head of Maison d’Haiti (Haiti House), a community centre in Montreal’s St-Michel neighbourhood, has received a wave of unsolicited messages from Haitians, begging for help to leave the country. “‘Get us out of…
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