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…
Mr. Wennesland told the Security Council that he “watched in horror and in real time” as reports of mass casualties emerged from Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday. “The circumstances of this catastrophe and responsibility remains and still needs to be clarified. And we will need a fact-based, full…
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…
While 12 of the Council’s 15 members voted in favour of the Brazilian-led text, one (United States) voted against, and two (Russia, and the United Kingdom) abstained. A ‘no’ vote from any one of the five permanent members of the Council stops action on any measure put before it. The…
That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is…
Egypt is sacrificing a historic area to make way for a road network to assist with traffic flow in Cairo. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS by Hisham Allam (cairo) Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Inter Press Service CAIRO, Oct 18 (IPS) – The Egyptian government is clearing a vast area in Historic Cairo, a…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 18 (IPS) – A senior manager of the world’s largest investment firm has ‘blown the whistle’ on ESG (environment, social and governance) ‘greenwashing’, especially on supposed climate finance. Wall Street whistle-blowerTariq Fancy…
Israeli Ambassador says there is no Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza when everybody knows there is a Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza.
On a somber Monday, Omar Suleiman addressed the mourners gathered for the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy. Wadea lost his life in a heartbreaking incident, and his mother suffered severe injuries in a hateful attack. The tragedy unfolded when their landlord entered their home in Chicago…
The past 10 days of conflict have claimed the lives of 4,200 people, forced more than one million individuals to flee their homes following an order from the Israeli authorities and left large areas in the Gaza Strip “reduced to rubble”, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for…
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