WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled areas of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolitan area, beginning on Saturday. Speaking from Port Sudan, Mr. Rowe highlighted other recent…
“Racism and xenophobia continue to spoil our communities, like scars that spoil the fabric of society. The hatred and violence they engender persist, demanding our collective efforts to eradicate racial violence in all its forms,” he told the second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Transforming injustice Mr. Kőrösi said overcoming…
WMO warned on Tuesday that glaciers and ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica accounts for some 50 per cent of sea level rise, which is accelerating, with disastrous impacts on small island developing states (SIDS) and densely populated coastal areas. Glacier melt The average thickness of the world’s glaciers has plummeted by almost 30 metres since 1970. “The cryosphere…
“The practice of incommunicado detention of members of the political opposition and prominent figures sentenced to lengthy prison terms for voicing dissent increased in 2023,” the 18 Special Rapporteurs and Human Rights Council-appointed Working Group rights’ experts said. In their statement released by UN rights office OHCHR, they reported that according to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, 1,511…
Delivering his latest update, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi reported that the situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – the largest in Europe – remains extremely fragile and dangerous. Military operations continue in the region “and may well increase very considerably in the near future,” he warned. Rolling the dice The Zaporizhzhya plant…
Ukraine, which has been fighting a war for a year and a half, has imposed new sanctions on Iran for supporting Russia. According to foreign media, Ukraine has imposed new sanctions on Iran for supporting Russia, which has been approved by the Kiev parliament. Kiev says that since the attack on Ukraine, Iran has been…
India: 5 more people have been killed in communal riots in Manipur, taking the death toll in the state to 80. The report said that the bloody ethnic riots that started on May 3 in the towns and villages of India’s northeastern state of Manipur are continuing. Seven more people have died due to the…
Murderous landlord killed in police shootout in Canada; Photo: File Ottawa: A landlord in Canada became enraged after seeing the poor condition of his house and opened fire on the tenants, resulting in the death of two people. According to the international news agency, the 28-year-old man lived in a rented house with his 27-year-old…
File photo Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shehryar Afridi was released from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. According to the jail administration, Shehryar Afridi was released on completion of the detention period. It should be noted that Shehryar Afridi was arrested from his residence in Islamabad this month. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘836181349842357’);…
Mahsa Amini was arrested by the police for not wearing hijab properly; Photo: File Tehran: Ella Mohammadi, a female journalist who informed the world about the death of a young Kurdish girl Mehsa Amini in police custody in Iran, is facing trial by the government. According to the international news agency, female journalist Ella Mohammadi…
