The then New York-based Elpida Rouka had accompanied the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme on a mission to Baghdad and survived the deadly explosion which killed 22 of her UN colleagues. The 19 August attack is commemorated annually by World Humanitarian Day. “A young 25-year-old barely two years into the UN at…
The wreath-laying ceremony at the UN in New York was held on the eve of World Humanitarian Day, commemorated annually on 19 August. This marks the day in 2003 when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives outside the UN headquarters at the Canal Hotel in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. A change in…
Khaled Mansour, now a writer and journalist, was the WFP spokesperson in Iraq at the time and narrowly missed the massive explosion which killed 22 of his UN colleagues. On World Humanitarian Day which was established to mark the 19 August attack, he reflects on his life since and what he has learnt. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré…
12 Norwegian ministries have been cyber-attacked, Erik Hoppe, head of the government agency that provides services to ministries, said: “We identified a flaw in a platform and fixed it.” They said that there was unusual traffic on a platform which led to the detection of a cyber attack. The matter came to light on July…
Russia has accused Ukraine of using US-supplied cluster bombs. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region has said that Ukraine fired cluster bombs on a village near the border on Friday. The governor made the statement without video evidence during a daily briefing on his Telegram channel on Saturday, while there was no immediate comment from…
Last month, a 62-year-old Japanese diplomat was attacked in the US state of Oregon. The woman who attacked has been arrested. American media reports called it a racist attack against Asian citizens. Yuzo Yoshioka, the head of the consular section at the Japanese consulate in Portland, USA, was pushed to the ground by a woman,…
Political analysts say that fearing a 26-party electoral alliance, Modi may influence the elections by staging a Pulwama attack-style drama. According to the details, the extremist policies of the Modi government have drowned the BJP, 26 major parties of India have announced an electoral alliance against Modi in the name of India. The alliance was…
Millions of US military emails sent to Russia’s Mali ally by typo British media has revealed that millions of US military emails were sent to Russia’s ally Mali by typographical error. Steps have been taken to deal with the mail problem. 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’); fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’); },…
Image courtesy: France 24. A bridge in Crimea, a part of the Russian-administered Ukrainian region, has been attacked due to which the bridge has been partially damaged. According to the news agency from Moscow, Russian President Putin has been informed about the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. Kremlin has said that they know who…
China and Russia will conduct joint military exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Chinese Ministry of Defense said China and Russia will conduct joint military exercises in the Sea of Japan. In this regard, the Chinese Ministry of Defense says from Beijing that the joint naval and air exercises of China and Russia will…
