The head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), speaking in Damascus, has called on the world to boost investment in Syria’s people and communities to help ease the highest levels of hunger in 12 years.Read the full story, “Syria: WFP chief calls for ac…
Holocaust remembrance: beware ‘siren songs of hate’ – UN chief
At a UN ceremony to mark the Holocaust on Friday, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that antisemitism, hate speech, and misinformation are ever-present, 90 years on from the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.Read the full story, “Holocaust reme…
Systemic racism within UK criminal justice system a serious concern: UN human rights experts
Racism in the United Kingdom is “structural, institutional and systemic”, independent UN human rights experts said on Friday, warning that people of African descent in the country continue to encounter discrimination and erosion of their fundamental ri…
Myanmar mired ever deeper in crisis as human rights spiral backwards, warns Türk
Nearly two years on from Myanmar’s brutal military coup against the democratically-elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis, undergoing a wholesale regression in human rights, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Frid…
Viral Video Shows Bus Speeding Through Deep Floodwater In New Zealand, Internet Stunned – NDTV
Viral Video Shows Bus Speeding Through Deep Floodwater In New Zealand, Internet Stunned NDTVBus speeds through deep floodwaters in New Zealand. Watch shocking video Hindustan TimesDriver steers bus through massively flooded road i…
Croatian President Milanovic: ‘Nobody Told Me We’re At War Against Russia’
Croatian Presdient Zoran Milanovic. Photo: Damir Sencar Beta RT: Nobody told me we’re at war – NATO state’s president The US and Germany might be at war with Russia, but that is news to Croatia, said Zoran Milanovic Commenting on the…
NATO hosts conference of Allied Contact Point Embassies in partner countries
NATO hosted its biennial conference of Allied Contact Point Embassies in partner countries on 26 and 27 January 2023. The event brought together 38 delegations representing NATO in 33 partner nations. The newly-appointed representatives attended briefi…
NATO marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
NATO marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a solemn ceremony at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Friday (27 January 2023). Addressing the event, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană called this year’s act of remembrance “parti…
ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.