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www.independent.co.uk
6 hours ago
Europe news

Russian veto brings end to UN panel monitoring enforcement of North Korea nuclear sanctions

Russia vetoed U.N. resolution on monitoring sanctions against N. Korea, tensions on Korean Peninsula escalating.
www.dw.com
1 month ago
Europe news

Ukraine updates: UN decries 'horrific human cost' of war DW 02/22/2024

Russia's war in Ukraine causing immense suffering for generations
Denmark commits to 10-year military support for Ukraine
www.france24.com
1 month ago
Europe news

UN top court rejects most of Ukraine's terror financing' case against Russia

The United Nations' top court mostly rejects Ukraine's claims that Russia was financing terrorism in eastern Ukraine.
The International Court of Justice ruled that Russia was failing to investigate alleged breaches, but rejected most of Ukraine's other pleas.
www.dw.com
2 months ago
Europe news

Ukraine updates: Poland's Tusk visits Kyiv, pledges support DW 01/22/2024

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasizes that Poland is Ukraine's most stable ally in the ongoing conflict with Russia.
The United Nations is demanding an explanation from Russia regarding the fate of thousands of Ukrainian children who have been allegedly sent to Russia against their will since the invasion began.
www.nytimes.com
3 months ago
Europe news

Despite Wars, Earthquakes and Hurricanes, U.N. Cuts Appeal for Aid

The United Nations has reduced its appeal for humanitarian aid by almost 20% for the coming year.
Despite increasing numbers of people in need, the UN has only received about a third of the funding requested for this year.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Europe news

Disaster Upon Disaster: Flood Deepens Misery in Ukraine War Zone

Oleksiy Kolesnik waded ashore and stood, trembling, on dry land for the first time in hours, rescued on Wednesday morning after spending the predawn sitting on top of a cabinet in his flooded living room.The water came really quickly, said Mr. Kolesnik, who was so weak he had to be helped out of a rubber boat by two rescue workers.
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Los Angeles Times
1 day ago
Food & drink

783 million people face chronic hunger, yet the world wastes 19% of its food, U.N. says

About 19% of global food was wasted in 2022, amounting to 1.05 billion metric tons.
Most food waste comes from households, followed by food service and retailers.
israel
www.aljazeera.com
5 days ago
Black Lives Matter

UN chief says blocked Gaza aid is a moral outrage', calls for war to end

Israel urged to give Gaza unfettered aid access
Guterres calls for easing Palestinian plight
www.aljazeera.com
6 days ago
Black Lives Matter

US, EU ratchet up pressure on Israel over Gaza ceasefire; UN vote planned

Security Council to vote on US-drafted ceasefire resolution
EU urges humanitarian pause
www.aljazeera.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

UN agency warns of looming famine' in Gaza

Half a million in Gaza face starvation, 2.3 million with food shortage
Delivery of humanitarian aid has been delayed, causing a famine threat in Gaza
www.aljazeera.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

Is Israel obstructing aid deliveries to Gaza?

Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine
Israel accused of preventing humanitarian aid
www.nytimes.com
1 month ago
World news

Middle East Crisis: Netanyahu Says Israeli Soldiers Will Push Into Crowded Area in Gaza

Israel's prime minister plans to send military troops into Gaza near the border with Egypt, where displaced Palestinians have fled.
The United Nations has warned that this action could worsen the humanitarian situation and lead to a large-scale loss of civilian lives.
www.aljazeera.com
3 months ago
Black Lives Matter

UN Humanitarian Chief: Gaza is special, not in a good way'

Israel's war on the Gaza Strip has led to dire conditions for aid operations
UN faces challenges in delivering aid due to displacement and overcrowded facilities
Humanitarian aid workers have been killed in Israeli air strikes
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Artificial intelligence
english.elpais.com
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe

The United Nations' first AI resolution ensures global cooperation for safe and beneficial AI technology.
The resolution emphasizes closing the digital divide and ensuring developing countries can leverage AI benefits.
time.com
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

How a New U.N. Advisory Group Wants to Transform AI Governance

The United Nations is working on issuing a set of recommendations for the governance of AI.
The advisory body has already issued an interim report proposing measures to strengthen AI governance and make it more inclusive.
euronews
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Friar Tech: The Vatican's top AI expert who advises Silicon Valley

The Vatican's top expert on AI is Friar Paolo Benanti, a member of the medieval Franciscan order.
Benanti is focused on governing AI to ensure it enriches people's lives and does not exploit them.
He is a consultant to the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life and advises the United Nations on AI.
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www.theguardian.com
1 week ago
EU data protection

EU says Hong Kong's new security law could affect its status as a business hub

The EU expressed concerns over Hong Kong's national security bill impacting freedoms and business status.
The legislation could have implications for international human rights law and freedom of individuals in Hong Kong.
www.theguardian.com
1 month ago
Europe news

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 709

The United Nations' highest court will rule on Ukraine's case accusing Russia of violating international law.
EU leaders have convinced Hungary's Viktor Orban to sign off on a 50bn aid package for Kyiv.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

In Serbia, a Strongman Under Fire Hails Himself as Defender of the Nation

He is courted by American and European diplomats, applauded by a media machine dedicated to vilifying his critics and still has four years left in a presidential term secured last year with a landslide re-election victory.But President Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's strongman leader for more than a decade, never looked so lost as when he appeared this week in an official video on the vast rooftop terrace of his presidential offices to share a bowl of cherries with two lieutenants and gripe about street protesters calling them rude names, including abnormal lunatics, murderers and criminals.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Europe news

Growing Protests in Serbia Demand Social Changes After Mass Shootings

Protests in Serbia over back-to-back mass shootings last month ballooned on Saturday into the biggest street demonstrations in the capital, Belgrade, since demonstrators toppled Slobodan Milosevic as Serbia's president in 2000.Weekly Serbia Against Violence protests have been gathering momentum since early May when two massacres one at a school in Belgrade, the second in nearby villages killed 18 people and set off a wave of public revulsion at what critics of the country's strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, denounce as a culture of violence promoted by the government and loyal media outlets.
Washington Post
9 months ago
Science

Plan to use pig fat as plane fuel doesn't fly, study says

Pig fat has been touted as a type of biofuel which can be used in the aviation industry.But a new study says the practice may have environmental consequences.(Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)How many pigs does it take to fuel a flight from New York to Paris?About 8,800, according to one estimate.Using animal fat to produce greener aviation fuel has been embraced as a potential solution for curbing carbon emissions.
Truthout
1 week ago
OMG science

2023 Shattered Key Climate Metrics, World Meteorological Organization Finds

2023 was the hottest year on record with various climate indicators at alarming levels.
The World Meteorological Organization and United Nations are issuing warnings on the dire state of the planet due to fossil fuel pollution and increasing temperatures.
www.nytimes.com
3 months ago
Environment

Countries Most at Risk Call Proposed Climate Agreement a Death Warrant'

Environmental groups and vulnerable countries criticize draft climate agreement for not calling for a phaseout of fossil fuels.
The draft only mentions actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and does not include deep cuts of fossil fuel use this decade.
Brooklyn Paper
9 months ago
Brooklyn

Competitive mini golf league coming to the Putting Green at Domino Park * Brooklyn Paper

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Drive for for dough at Domino Park!Putting Green, an 18- is back for its third consecutive summer on the Williamsburg waterfront.This time, by popular demand, according to the organizers, a competitive league will start in July.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Greta Thunberg Ends Her School Strikes After 251 Weeks

For five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class; after 251 weeks, she is hanging up her cardboard protest sign as a student.What began as a 15-year-old with a singular message has spread into a global movement across 7,500 cities.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

Poor Air Quality Is Routine in Many Parts of the World

The hazy plume from the Canadian wildfires has given people in the northeastern United States a sense of what it is like in parts of the world where a struggle with the quality of their air is more routine.On Wednesday, New York City briefly became one of the cities with the worst air on the planet, eclipsing some of the poorest nations that have suffered from pollution for decades.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Science

More than half of the world's largest lakes are shrinking. Here's why that matters.

Water levels at Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, remain critically low because of a climate-change driven megadrought and overuse of the Colorado River's water.Claire Harbage/NPR/NPR Human activities have caused more than half of the world's largest lakes to shrink dramatically over the last 30 years, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
www.aljazeera.com
1 week ago
Black Lives Matter

UN reports 35 percent increase in people affected by South Sudan violence

Civilians are bearing the brunt of intercommunal conflict in South Sudan, with a 35% surge in violence affecting over 800 people.
Intercommunal violence by community-based militias accounts for 86% of all civilians affected.
www.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago
Black Lives Matter

South Africa asks ICJ for more measures against Israel over Gaza famine'

South Africa seeks ICJ emergency action against Israel over Gaza war
United Nations warns of imminent famine in Gaza Strip
www.aljazeera.com
3 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Allies raising pressure on Israel to halt Gaza bombardment

Calls for a ceasefire are growing after the UN passed a resolution and the US warned of deteriorating support.
Pressure is building on Israel as its allies, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, called for an end to hostilities and expressed concern over civilian casualties in Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
3 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Why is Israel at war with the UN?

Israel revoked the residence visa of UN Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings for condemning Hamas and not condemning Israel.
This incident is part of a pattern of clashes between Israel and the UN over the war in Gaza.
english.elpais.com
2 weeks ago
Social justice

Iran committed crimes against humanity' during repression of protests over Mahsa Amini's death, UN fact-finding mission says

Iran's security forces committed grave human rights violations during protests
Crimes against humanity include gender-based violence against protesting Iranian women
www.npr.org
1 month ago
Social justice

Sexual violence is an ancient and often unseen war crime. Is it inevitable?

Sexual violence as a weapon in conflict has a long history and continues to be a problem in current conflicts.
The United Nations has recognized sexual violence as a category of war crime and has defined the term 'conflict-related sexual violence'.
Truthout
3 months ago
Social justice

I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.

The United Nations has condemned the practice of life imprisonment, also known as death by incarceration, and called on the United States to abolish it.
A delegation of civil society organizations spoke to the UN Human Rights Committee to expose the human rights violations committed by the US in terms of life without parole sentencing.
The UN special rapporteur on racism stated that the US practice of sentencing people to die in prison violates the purpose of rehabilitation and perpetuates segregation and exploitation.
www.aljazeera.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

More than 14 million people fled homes in Ukraine since Russia invasion: UN

Millions displaced in Ukraine conflict for two years
Humanitarian crisis in Ukraine persists
www.aljazeera.com
1 month ago
Medicine

Israeli siege turns Gaza's Nasser Hospital into a place of death'

Conditions at Gaza's Nasser Hospital described as appalling
Dozens of patients and staff trapped amid intensified Israeli bombardment
www.france24.com
1 month ago
France news

Live: United Nations warns of 'explosion' in child deaths in Gaza

The UN Security Council is voting on a ceasefire in Gaza, US may veto.
UN Health warnings for Gaza due to lack of food, malnutrition, and disease.
www.aljazeera.com
3 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Palestinians displaced to south Gaza's overcrowded areas living on streets

Desperate Palestinians are fleeing Israel's expanding ground offensive in Gaza, overcrowding into a shrinking area.
The United Nations warns that the aid operation in Gaza is in tatters and there is a lack of food and fuel.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

EFF and Access Now's Submission to U.N. Expert on Anti-LGBTQ+ Repression

EFF and Access Now submit information on digital rights and SOGI issues to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
There is an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance both online and offline globally.
www.theguardian.com
2 months ago
World news

China's human rights record criticised at UN as it faces rare scrutiny of policies

The UK and US criticized China's human rights record at the United Nations, calling for an end to persecution, arbitrary detention, and other violations.
The recommendations were made as part of the UN Human Rights Council's universal periodic review, where each country had 45 seconds to make recommendations based on China's human rights records since 2018.
Truthout
2 months ago
Left-wing politics

Doctors Demand Ceasefire in Gaza to Address "Apocalyptic" Health Crisis

Worldwide protests called for a ceasefire in Gaza, marking 100 days of Israeli assault.
United Nations humanitarian leaders demand increased aid flow into Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Left-wing politics

Biden's Absence at Climate Summit Highlights His Fossil Fuel Conundrum

President Biden will not be attending the United Nations climate summit in Dubai due to other global crises.
Biden's climate and energy policies are facing challenges from centrists, climate activists, and Republicans.
Biden is missing an opportunity to strengthen his climate credentials by not attending the climate summit.
Truthout
9 months ago
Left-wing politics

A New Cold War Between US, Russia and China Began in 1999, Says Gilbert Achcar

He says the U.S. squandered opportunities to pursue long-term peace in the '90s and instead made "opposite choices."Belarus says Russia has begun transferring tactical nuclear weapons to the former Soviet state, which shares a nearly 700-mile border with Ukraine, escalating the risk of a nuclear confrontation in Europe.
BBC News
3 months ago
UK politics

SNP: UK 'shamefully abstained' on Gaza ceasefire vote

153 nations voted for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war
Rishi Sunak defends UK's efforts to provide aid to Gaza
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
UK politics

Lives put at risk' by UK's failure to fast-track Sudanese asylum claims

A Sudanese asylum seeker, Yousif (not his real name), was in his Home Office hotel room trying to sleep when he got a horrifying WhatsApp message from his wife.It was a picture of his three-year-old son fast asleep on the street in Khartoum, surrounded by plastic bags, using a salvaged wheelie suitcase as a mattress after they were forced out of their home by the fighting between the Sudanese army and its paramilitary opponent, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), that has torn the country apart over the past two months.
Futurism
3 months ago
Environment

Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap

The United Nations climate change conference in Dubai has been criticized for offering ineffective solutions and distractions from the real issues.
Dubai's Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who runs the United Arab Emirates' national oil company, presides over the conference, leading to concerns about conflict of interest.
Truthout
3 months ago
Environment

COP28 Must Address the US Military as World's Largest Institutional Emitter

The Conference of the Parties (COP) has never resulted in substantive solutions for addressing climate change.
The U.S. military industry is a major contributor to climate change through its emissions and environmental damage caused by wars.
COP discussions rarely address the root causes of climate change, such as colonialism and imperialism.
www.fastcompany.com
3 months ago
Environment

This is what actually happens at the COP climate summits

The United Nations holds an annual climate conference called COP (Conference of Parties) to assess progress in climate action and negotiate next steps.
The meetings include closed-door negotiations, official negotiations attended by world leaders, side events with nonprofits and activists, and heavy representation from oil companies.
www.mercurynews.com
4 months ago
Environment

Biden plans to skip UN climate talks this week in Dubai

President Biden will not attend the climate talks in Dubai, sending a climate team instead.
The COP28 conference aims to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions and move away from fossil fuels.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Environment

Biden to Skip U.N. Climate Summit, White House Says

President Biden will not attend the U.N. climate summit in Dubai.
The war between Israel and Hamas and the conflict in Ukraine may have influenced Biden's decision.
Biden has previously made climate change a priority and attended past U.N. climate conferences.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Environment

What Is COP28? And Other Questions About the Big U.N. Climate Summit

The planet is careening towards climate disaster
Governments are acting too slowly to avert the crisis
www.npr.org
3 months ago
Women

Israel presses U.N. to investigate charges of sexual violence by Hamas fighters

Israel accuses Hamas militants of committing rape and sexual assaults during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left 1,200 Israelis dead
Israel criticizes major international groups, including the United Nations, for being slow to acknowledge and condemn the sexual violence
www.aljazeera.com
3 months ago
Europe politics

Who's attending COP28 in Dubai and who's giving it a miss?

Over 100 world leaders are expected to attend the United Nations' annual climate summit, COP28.
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are among the leaders likely skipping the event.
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
Europe politics

Greece shipwreck: people smuggling suspects arrested as search continues

Greek authorities have arrested 32 people suspected of people smuggling following a shipwreck off the coast of the island of Samos.
According to the Greek coastguard, the shipwreck resulted in the death of at least 11 people, while the search for survivors continues.
The incident is the latest in a series of tragedies involving migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Aegean Sea to reach European Union member states.
WSJ
3 months ago
France politics

Rift Over Fossil Fuels to Dominate COP28

World leaders gathered for climate talks in Dubai amid divisions over how quickly to transition to renewable energy.
Vice President Kamala Harris expected to join global leaders at the United Nations' annual climate talks.
ComputerWeekly.com
3 months ago
Business intelligence

CGI and Google Cloud join forces to support United Nations in climate change fight | Computer Weekly

IT consultancy CGI is partnering with Google Cloud to develop a platform for the United Nations to address climate change-related sustainability challenges.
The platform will utilize historical data sets and AI to help countries predict the impact of climate change and track progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
This collaboration will provide an accessible platform that simplifies complex data and allows users to make informed decisions regarding sustainability.
time.com
4 months ago
Environment

World Must Cut Emissions By 42% by 2030 to Meet 1.5C Paris Goal

Global warming is projected to exceed the international climate threshold under the Paris Agreement.
To stay within the 1.5-degree Celsius limit, countries need to reduce emissions by 42% by the end of the decade.
The report highlights that this year, the daily global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius on 127 days.
www.npr.org
4 months ago
Environment

The UN's Guterres calls for an 'ambition supernova' as climate progress stays slow

Countries' climate action plans are still far behind what's needed to curb human-caused warming and limit the devastating effects of extreme heat, storms and droughts.
Emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas will go up 9% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels, but will be 2% lower than 2019 levels because of some climate action from countries switching to cleaner energy.
The world needs to reduce emissions by around 45% by 2030 to effectively address the climate crisis.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Deployment ceremony for Nikki Haley's husband takes place in South Carolina

The official deployment ceremony for a South Carolina Army National Guard brigade that includes Michael Haley, the husband of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, is set to take place Saturday in Charleston.The ceremony is scheduled to be held at The Citadel military college ahead of the brigade's deployment to Africa in support of the United States Africa Command.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US politics

G.O.P. Hopefuls Haley and Scott Show Openness to Criticizing Trump

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, at a campaign event in Des Moines this month.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina during a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee in Washington last month.Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times While most of former President Donald J. Trump's Republican rivals have closed ranks around him since his indictment in the classified documents case, two of them Nikki Haley and Tim Scott have begun to move away from solely denouncing the Justice Department.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

The 2024 G.O.P. Field Faces a Choice: Law and Order or Loyalty

The federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump has left the Republican Party and his rivals for the party's nomination with a stark choice between deferring to a system of law and order that has been central to the party's identity for half a century or a more radical path of resistance, to the Democratic Party in power and to the nation's highest institutions that Mr. Trump now derides.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

Where Republican Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate Change

As wildfires in Canada have sent masses of smoke over the United States this week, engulfing much of the Northeast in a yellow haze of hazardous air pollution, scientists are clear that we are seeing the effects of climate change.But the Republicans campaigning for the presidency have largely downplayed the issue and rejected policies that would slow rising temperatures.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Growing GOP field isn't selling primary voters on why they should ditch Trump

The Republican presidential field is growing almost by the day, but no candidate has yet offered an effective answer to GOP primary voters on the race's most compelling question why they should ditch Donald Trump.Former Vice President Mike Pence became the latest candidate to signal a campaign on Monday by filing papers ahead of an official announcement and a CNN town hall on Wednesday.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US politics

Takeaways From Nikki Haley's Mild CNN Town Hall

Nikki Haley, who was the first prominent Republican to announce a challenge to former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 race, has yet to see her presidential campaign catch fire.On Sunday night, she had a fresh opportunity to make the case for her candidacy during a 90-minute CNN town hall in prime time, in an effort to emerge from the low single digits in polls where she has been mired.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Uganda School Attack Leaves at Least 25 Dead

At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured when militants with an extremist group attacked a secondary school in western Uganda, the authorities said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks to hit the East African nation in years.The armed outfit, known as the Allied Democratic Forces, attacked a school in Mpondwe, a town close to the border with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday night, a police spokesman, Fred Enanga, said in a post on Twitter.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

African Leaders Talk Peace in Ukraine, as Missiles Explode Overhead

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and African leaders on a peace mission to Kyiv had testy exchanges on Friday on how to end the war with Russia, hours after Russian forces fired missiles at the capital while the African heads of government were there.The African leaders spoke of hope and dialogue after talking with Mr. Zelensky, but the Ukrainian leader ruled out peace talks until Moscow withdraws its troops from occupied territory, and he called for Russia to be frozen out diplomatically.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Militia in Congo Kills Dozens at Camp for Internally Displaced

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo More than 40 civilians were killed on Monday when a militia attacked a camp for displaced people in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official and the head of a civil society group said.Jean Richard Lenga, chief of the Bahema Badjere district in Ituri Province, said members of the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, or CODECO, massacred 46 people with knives and firearms and burned others in their homes in the middle of the camp.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

As Assad's Isolation Lifts, Syrian Refugees Fear Pressure to Return Home

Early one recent morning, Lebanese soldiers swept through the Bourj Hammoud neighborhood in Beirut, emptying two buildings of the Syrian refugees living in them.They forced them into trucks and drove them to a no-man's land between the Lebanese and Syrian borders.After days stuck along the border, hundreds of refugees were taken by Syrian forces back to Syria.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Even in Prison, She's an Indomitable Voice' for Freedom in Iran

When Narges Mohammadi was just a little girl, her mother told her to never become political.The price of fighting the system in a country like Iran would be too high.That warning has proved prescient.Ms. Mohammadi, 51, Iran's most prominent human rights and women's rights activist, is now serving a 10-year jail sentence in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for spreading anti-state propaganda.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Mother and Child's Desperate Run for Cover in Kyiv Ends Outside LockedShelter

Listening to the wail of air-raid sirens, a mother and her 9-year-old daughter raced through the Ukrainian capital's early morning darkness on Thursday to a clinic, where a bomb shelter promised escape from another Russian missile barrage.But the clinic was locked, the authorities said.After explosions roared, the woman and her daughter were found dead among green trees and broken glass, just outside the door.
Acm
9 months ago
Digital life

UN-Backed Team Scans Ukraine Historical Sites to Preserve Them Amid War

Technology is being used to preserve historical sites in the Ukraine amid the war through a UN-backed project.
The project uses 3D scanning and imagery to capture and document the historical sites before the war damages them.
This project can be used as a model for other countries to use to protect and preserve their historical sites during periods of conflict.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

Hoping to Avert Nuclear Crisis, U.S. Seeks Informal Agreement With Iran

The Biden administration has been negotiating quietly with Iran to limit Tehran's nuclear program and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries, in part of a larger U.S. effort to ease tensions and reduce the risk of a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.The U.S. goal is to reach an informal, unwritten agreement, which some Iranian officials are calling a political cease-fire.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

Thomas Buergenthal, Holocaust Survivor and Judge, Dies at 89

Thomas Buergenthal, who said his survival in a Nazi death camp when he was 10 years old equipped him to become a human rights lawyer and venerable judge on the World Court, died on Monday at his home in Miami.He was 89.His death was confirmed by his son Alan Buergenthal.Judge Buergenthal and his parents were transported from a Jewish ghetto in occupied Poland to Auschwitz, where Tommy, as he was called, was believed to be among the youngest survivors.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

Nikki Haley's Husband Will Deploy to Africa for Year With National Guard

The husband of Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina, is preparing to deploy to Africa with the Army National Guard, a military tour that is expected to last a year and for most of the G.O.P. primary race.The deployment of Michael Haley, a major in the National Guard, was confirmed on Friday by a person familiar with his plans.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Camilla stamps Queen Bee' on paper art installation at beekeeping charity event

The Queen stamped the words Queen Bee onto a piece of paper and added it to an art installation at a beekeeping charity's garden party.Camilla attended the Bees For Development (BFD) event in sun-soaked Marlborough House in central London on Wednesday together with hundreds of guests, including Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith, celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and television presenter Kate Humble.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Russia warns of escalation to war if UK keeps supplying weapons to Ukraine

Russia's ambassador to the UK has warned of an escalation to the war in Ukraine as Britain and other Western allies commit more weapons to aid President Volodymyr Zelensky.Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Andrei Kelin said the actions of Nato countries, especially the UK, risk lengthening and triggering a new dimension in the war.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Attempts to freeze the conflict in Ukraine where it is are wrong, says Sunak

Attempts to freeze the conflict in Ukraine where it is are absolutely wrong and should be called out, the Prime Minister has said.Rishi Sunak was answering former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who made the case for a ceasefire.The PM said he could not disagree more with Mr Corbyn, an independent MP, and said a temporary suspension of fighting would not be a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
www.cnn.com
10 years ago
US politics

George W. Bush Fast Facts

Here's a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush Marriage: Laura (Welch) Bush (November 5, 1977-present) Children: Barbara and Jenna (November 25, 1981) Education: Yale University, B.A., 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975 Military: Texas Air National Guard, F-102 fighter pilot, 1968-1970 Religion: Methodist After John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush is the second president to be the son of a previous president.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

US says drone factory Russia is building with Iran's help could be operational early year

The US believes that an attack drone manufacturing plant Russia is building with Iran's help could be fully operational by early next year, National Security Council official John Kirby said on Friday.Iran is shipping equipment for the plant, as well as fully-built drones, to Russia via the Caspian Sea, US officials believe.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Takeaways from CNN's town hall with Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential contender, sharply criticized the party's top-polling candidates in a CNN town hall in Iowa on Sunday.Former President Donald Trump, Haley's former boss when she served as ambassador to the United Nations, was wrong, she said, to defend the actions of his supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 which she called a terrible day.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

CNN town hall with Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley and her family walk back into the South Carolina State House after her inauguration in 2011.Tim Dominick/The State/Tribune News Service/Getty Images A former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was first elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004.
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US politics

How to watch CNN's town hall with Nikki Haley

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a CNN town hall on Sunday as the field of hopefuls vying for the party's 2024 nomination continues to grow.Haley, who served almost two years as US ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, entered the GOP nominating contest in February and has had to navigate running against her former boss, who is seen as the current Republican front-runner.
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10 months ago
US politics

Trump Looks Like He Will Get the 2024 Crowd He Wants

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida officially entered the presidential race last week, but he appears farther than ever from the one-on-one matchup that his allies believe he needs to wrest the nomination from former President Donald J. Trump.Former Vice President Mike Pence is burrowing deeper into Iowa, crucial to his effort to dislodge the Republican front-runners, even before he has announced his bid.
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Intellectual property law

WIPO is seeking a Full-Time Legal Officer in Geneva Office - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is seeking a Legal Officer in the Legislative, Policy and Technology Advice Section of the Patent and Technology Law Division, Patents and Technology Sector.The Division is responsible for the implementation of WIPO's strategic goal concerning the balanced evolution of the international normative framework for intellectual property in the area of patents and related fields such as utility models and the protection of undisclosed information.
Exchangewire
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Marketing tech

IAB Europe Releases European Common Commitment for Sustainable Digital Advertising

IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, today announced the release of a new European IAB Common Commitment Agreement on Sustainability signed by 18 National IABs and Federations across Europe.The Commitment demonstrates the need and wants from National Federations for a collaborative and consistent approach to the measurement methodology of carbon emissions.
Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles

Report: Four of California's prisons ranked worst at handling COVID, care for inmates

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

More than three years after the pandemic started sweeping through the California prison system, a report from UCLA offers a new measure of just how bad it was - and which prisons handled it the worst.After analyzing nearly 300 letters and interviews from people in prison, a team of law students ranked which facilities had the most red flags for potential constitutional violations between April 2020 and April 2021, the first year of the pandemic.
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9 months ago
New York City

The Art of Reusing Plastic

Good morning.It's Tuesday.We'll meet two artists who observed World Environment Day with creations made from discarded plastics.We'll also find out why a court-appointed official says the police anti-crime units are still stopping and frisking people illegally.Image Credit...Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock For several years, the Israeli artist Beverly Barkat collected trash plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic cartons, plastic cups, plastic lids, plastic wrappers.
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9 months ago
Europe news

Who Owns the Benin Bronzes? The Answer Just Got More Complicated.

After years of ignored pleas and stonewalled requests, deals were finally coming together to return some of Africa's most prized treasures to the continent.The Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the German government announced they were returning scores of sculptures, plaques and ornaments, known as the Benin Bronzes, that British soldiers had plundered in 1897 from Benin City, in what is now Nigeria but was once the center of a kingdom.
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Health

A pop-up restaurant in Kabul is run by women for women. The Taliban is watching

Afghan women are waiting to order food in the Banowan-e-Afghan restaurant in Kabul.The name means "Afghan ladies" (men can order carryout).It's providing jobs for women and a welcoming space to eat although there are concerns about the Taliban's reaction.Nava Jamshidi By the side of a busy road in Northwestern Kabul, the savory smell of bolani, traditional vegetable-stuffed flatbread, wafts out of a cloth-walled, temporary building.
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10 months ago
Health

Myths and pseudoscience are causing HIV to spread DW 05/20/2023

17 minutes ago17 minutes ago Myths and superstitions about HIV and AIDS are causing the disease to spread, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.HIV/AIDS is a viral infection that attacks the immune system, specifically immune cells, which are crucial for fighting off infections and diseases.The virus is primarily transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse or sharing contaminated needles.
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9 months ago
World politics

A Plan to Avert a Vast Oil Spill Off Yemen Finally Moves Ahead

A United Nations operation to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea by salvaging a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward this week after years of delays.The oil tanker, the FSO Safer, holds more than 1 million barrels of oil, about four times the amount leaked in the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill of 1989.
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9 months ago
Girls

A Trans ModelFleeing the Trap of Respectability'

Geena Rocero can stop traffic.This is more than a metaphor.On a recent Saturday in Manhattan, she confidently stomped into West 34th Street, giving a shrug and a wave to a braking car before getting into a Lyft.I've counted: I can stop three lanes, she said.Not four.Ms. Rocero, 39, has honed the skill of attracting and deflecting attention throughout her extraordinary career, recounted in her new memoir, Horse Barbie, out on Tuesday.
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10 months ago
Europe news

Erdogan's victory could be fateful for Turkey's democracy and role in the world

Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday after securing five more years in office.Ali Unal/AP ISTANBUL, Turkey Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decades of dominance over the country's politics will continue after a win in Sunday's election.
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Design

Recycled plastics often contain more toxic chemicals says Greenpeace

The process of recycling can actually make plastics more hazardous to human health, according to a recent Greenpeace report that calls on the United Nations to rule it out as a scalable fix for plastic pollution.Released ahead of the second round of negotiations for the UN's Global Plastics Treaty, which will begin on Monday, the report compiles the findings of several peer-reviewed studies from across the globe.
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10 months ago
US politics

Oath Keepers Leader Is Sentenced to 18 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case

Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges for the role he played in helping to mobilize the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.The sentence, handed down in Federal District Court in Washington, was the most severe penalty so far in any of the more than 1,000 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack and the first to be increased for fitting the legal definition of terrorism.
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10 months ago
US politics

A guide to the Republicans running for president so far

A version of this story appears in CNN's What Matters newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.The first Republican primary debate won't occur until August.The first primaries and caucuses won't occur until early next year.But the 2024 presidential primary campaign is well underway.
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10 months ago
US politics

CNN to host town hall with Nikki Haley on June 4

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a live CNN presidential town hall next month in Iowa, the network announced Wednesday.CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper will moderate the event, which will air at 8 p.m. ET on June 4.The former South Carolina governor is one of many Republicans in a growing field of candidates who are vying for the party's presidential nomination and who are heavily focused on Iowa a state early in the primary election calendar that can make or break a campaign's momentum.
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Media industry

A Russian court has extended Evan Gershkovich's detention until the end of August

Evan Gershkovich at a court hearing in April to consider an appeal on his arrest.Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images MOSCOW A Russian court extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for another three months on Tuesday.The American journalist faces unsubstantiated charges of espionage.
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World politics

Death on the Floor or Death in the Streets': Childbirth Amid War in Sudan

Days after fighting erupted in Sudan, Amna Al-Ahmad received an urgent call for help from a pregnant woman who told her she was preparing to die.Ms. Ahmad, a 42-year-old midwife, said she sprinted through gunfire that had swept through her neighborhood in Omdurman, just north of the capital, Khartoum, to reach the woman's home.
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10 months ago
World politics

Sudan's Warring Groups Agree to 7-Day Cease-Fire

Sudan's warring parties have agreed to a seven-day cease-fire beginning on Monday, Saudi Arabia and the United States announced late Saturday, the first truce to be signed by both parties in a conflict that has raged for over a month, leaving millions of people across the northeast African nation in a dire humanitarian crisis.
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