Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea

Rights expert urges Italy to stop criminalizing activists saving migrant lives at sea

Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last May in Sicily against 21 people charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with several search-and-rescue missions conducted between 2016 and 2017.  Those accused include four crew members of the Iuventa, a former fishing trawler credited with saving some 14,000 migrant lives in the Mediterranean Sea, and human…

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Earthquake disaster: ‘We must put people first’ urges Guterres in race to save lives

Earthquake disaster: ‘We must put people first’ urges Guterres in race to save lives

In a heartfelt appeal based on his years of visiting the devastated area, as Secretary-General and previously as head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Antonio Guterres said that what had been a “centre of solidarity is now an epicentre of suffering.” ‘Nightmare on top of nightmare’ “People are facing nightmare on top of nightmare. The…

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First UN aid convoy reaches Syria’s quake-hit northwest since disaster

First UN aid convoy reaches Syria’s quake-hit northwest since disaster

“Aid, life-saving aid, is desperately needed by civilians wherever they are irrespective of borders and boundaries,” he told journalists in Geneva. “We need it urgently, through the fastest, most direct, and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.” According to UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, six trucks carrying “shelter items and non-food item…

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Tehreek-e-Insaaf is considering the nomination of the opposition leader in the National Assembly

Tehreek-e-Insaaf is considering the nomination of the opposition leader in the National Assembly

—File photo After the court granted relief to 43 members of the National Assembly, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) started considering the nomination of the opposition leader in the National Assembly. According to sources, there has been a consultation between Chairman PTI Imran Khan and party leaders on the nomination of the opposition leader. Sources say that…

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Planned attacks in Pindi;  Two most wanted terrorists of TTP arrested

Planned attacks in Pindi; Two most wanted terrorists of TTP arrested

Rawalpindi: CTD Punjab and federal sensitive agency have arrested two most wanted terrorists of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan while foiling a major terror plan in twin cities. According to CTD Punjab, the terrorists belong to the Haji Faqir group of Tehreek-e-Taliban, the terrorists were identified as Hayatullah and Wakil Khan. Sadar Baruni, District Courts Rawalpindi, St….

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