Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save RIGA, Latvia — At a recent public policy forum, President Vladimir Putin extolled his “new world” and rejected a global rules-based order as “some kind of nonsense.” “What rules?” Putin snapped at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in…
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President Biden will discuss the U.S. response to developments in Israel and Gaza during an Oval Office address Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern, the White House said. Biden, who visited Israel on Wednesday, said a recent strike on Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital appeared to come from an “errant rocket fired…
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – Nearly two weeks after Hamas militants invaded Israel, targeting, kidnapping and killing civilians in a bloody massacre, questions remain around just how the Gaza-based terrorist organization was able to pull off such an elaborate and devastating operation under the nose of what is broadly considered one…
“For nearly two weeks the people of Gaza have gone without any shipments of fuel, food, water, medicine, and other essentials. Disease is spreading. Supplies are dwindling. People are dying,” he said at a press conference in Cairo alongside Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. Mr. Guterres is in the Middle…
Countries attending the landmark Conference, held in Cairo, agreed a Programme of Action which promised that women and girls must have the power to make decisions about their own lives, their bodies and their futures. Mr. Türk commended the “leaps” made during the past three decades which include a reduction…
Community health workers demand to be recognised as formal workers with pay and benefits to match. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Thursday, October 19, 2023 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Oct 19 (IPS) – “Professionally, I am still where I was 23 years ago when I started working as…
Credit: European Press Agency for Glasgow Actions Team Opinion by Andrew Nazdin (london) Thursday, October 19, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Oct 19 (IPS) – It’s official: The World Bank officially has a mission to combat climate change. At least on paper. This week, the World Bank governing body approved a…
Speaking in Beijing, Mr. Guterres said that a ceasefire would “provide sufficient time and space” to realize two essential appeals which he made earlier this week: to Hamas, for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages held in Gaza, and to Israel, to immediately allow aid to enter the…
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