The U.K. government has vetoed Scotland’s transgender rights bill, which passed in December.
Guterres strongly condemns attack at Jerusalem synagogue which left at least seven Israelis dead
The UN Secretary-General on Friday strongly condemned Friday’s terrorist attack by a Palestinian man outside a synagogue in a Jerusalem neighbourhood which has left at least seven Israelis dead, and three others injured.Read the full story, “Guterres s…
Mali: ‘Critical year’ begins in country’s return to constitutional order
Stabilizing Mali is crucial, not only for the country but for the entire region, UN Special Representative El-Ghassim Wane told the Security Council on Friday. Read the full story, “Mali: ‘Critical year’ begins in country’s return to constitutional ord…
Syria: WFP chief calls for action now, as hunger soars to 12 year high
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…