Putin winning in Ukraine would send China wrong message, UK official says (www.newsweek.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11328562...
There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11328562...
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/11328480...
Cross-posted: beehaw.org/post/11328109...
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8224710...
The 2023 awards saw several nominees mysteriously declared ineligible....
“This refusal [of a two-state solution], and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says....
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8189732...
Turkish parliament ratifies Sweden's NATO membership. https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/son-dakika-haberi-isvecin-nato-uyeligine-iliskin-gorusme-mecliste-basladi-42395218
On Tal Mitnick’s first morning inside an Israeli military prison last month, he was ordered into a small classroom. Pinned to its walls were various famous quotes. One caught his attention: “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” The name beneath it: Nelson Mandela....
Lawyer Amir Raesian said he received a notification from the Tehran General and Revolutionary Court that his client Mohammad Ghobadlou’s death sentence will be carried out on January 23, 2024....
The head of the UN World Health Organization on Thursday spoke out forcefully against “misinformation on social media and in the mainstream media” which has falsely alleged that a new global pandemic accord being negotiated, would allow the WHO to override national sovereignty relating to a future outbreak.
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Monday called on the authorities in Hong Kong to drop all charges against pro-democracy media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai and release him immediately.
Saudi Arabia is looking to boost the sport in the country by appointing Rafa Nadal as an ambassador, while some tennis players are concerned about the global exposure a country “where women are not treated equally” can gain. Whether Saudi Arabia will host the women’s federations’ finals remains to be seen.
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8125625...
Unpaywalled link...
Chronic aid access problems have meant that Caesarean sections have been performed without anaesthetic while other women have been unable to deliver their stillborn babies because medical staff are overwhelmed, the UN agency said....
"We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek peace is a duty to them. We are failing them,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a statement issued alongside the report....
Article available in Deutsch, English, French
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8116825...
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/8116461...
The excessive and disproportionate restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic have compounded the effects of decades of the North Korean government’s violations of the rights to food, health, and to an adequate standard of living; and to freedom of expression and movement, according to Human Rights Watch....