Photo courtesy of The Politico Washington 52-year-old Nicola Sturgeon was arrested in the UK to investigate the Scottish National Party’s funding case. According to Scotland Police from Edinburgh, the arrested woman was questioned in the funding case. Police Scotland says the woman arrested was former leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon. According to…
In Myanmar, the UN appealed on Tuesday for $333 million to assist 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people, many of whom have lost their homes as the cyclone hit the west of the country over a week ago. The UN’s top aid official in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, told reporters in Geneva that the…
New Delhi/Washington: A report by Indian and American experts has revealed the pool of secret funding from the US for the Hindu extremist organization RSS. The report titled “Foreign Exchange of Hate” revealed the secret funding of the RSS and said that the US has allegedly given crores of rupees to the Hindu extremist organization…
Unless donors meet the gap, 60 per cent of the people the agency assists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories will no longer be receiving food assistance in June, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced, adding that by August, the agency will be forced to completely suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza. “Desperate times…
There are so many conflicts, humanitarian disasters, extreme weather events and economic upheavals taking place in the world, that a new word is being used to describe the current state of affairs: the “polycrisis”. The word appeared in 2022, a year that began with tentative hopes that the global economy would begin to recover from…
UNICEF Representative in Türkiye, Regina De Dominicis, said that while the humanitarian response to the disaster was swift, “immediate futures of millions of children remain uncertain”. Urgent health and protection needs To cover the most pressing needs, UNICEF has reached more than 390,000 people with hygiene kits, winter clothes, electrical heaters and blankets. The…
File photo Former US President Trump has asked Republicans in Congress to cut funding for the Department of Justice and the FBI after he was indicted for 34 serious crimes. In a statement on social media, Trump said that Republicans should not fund the Department of Justice and the FBI until they come to their…
WFP estimates that more than 345 million people worldwide face crisis levels of food insecurity this year, an increase of almost 200 million since early 2020. Of these, 43 million are just one step away from famine. Ration cuts warning “Ration cuts are coming if we don’t have the money to get food to those…
File photo In Algeria, the famous journalist Ehsan Alkadi was sentenced to 3 years in prison in the foreign funding case. According to the news agency, the Algerian court has also sentenced journalist Ehsan Alkadi to a two-year suspended sentence. Journalist Ehsan Alkadi, a strong critic of the Algerian government, was arrested on December 24…
Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo was speaking on Wednesday at a meeting at UN Headquarters to draw attention to the widening financing gap at the year-old operation. “Despite initial generous donor support, contributions have significantly declined, leaving the mission in a dire financial situation,” she said. Contributing to progress ATMIS builds on the work of a previous…
