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28  mars     16h18
World court orders Israel to take action to address Gaza famine
   Judges at the International Court of Justice on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza.The ICJ said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life and...
    11h49
Haiti gang violence deaths surge in 2024, UN report says
   Gang violence in Haiti has killed over, people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so called self defence brigades, the U.N. human rights office said on Thursday.Haiti’s shattering gang wars have intensified in recent weeks with...
    15h59
WTO: China initiates dispute over US tax credits for EVs, renewables
   China has initiated dispute consultations with the United States regarding tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act to promote the production of electric vehicles and renewable energy, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday.China claims that the US credits at issue hinge on using...
    16h01
Dengue cases surge in the Americas in potentially worst-ever outbreak -PAHO
   Dengue cases in the Americas spiked in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday.Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are the countries most affected by dengue, in what PAHO...
    14h32
Russia blocks renewal of North Korea sanctions monitors
   Russia vetoed on Thursday the annual renewal of a panel of experts monitoring enforcement of longstanding United Nations sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.The move comes amid U.S. led accusations that North Korea has transferred weapons to Russia,...
    15h54
Collapse highlights need to protect critical foundations
   The collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge has highlighted what engineers say is an urgent need to better protect the piers holding up spans over shipping channels as the size of cargo ships has grown in recent decades.Federal authorities continue an investigation into why a massive cargo ship lost...
    16h01
What do we know about the suspects in the Russian concert shooting?
   Russia’s Investigative Committee says it has evidence that the Tajik gunmen accused of killing at least people at a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked to Ukrainian nationalists. Ukraine denies involvement, and the U.S. says Islamic State which claimed the attack bears sole...
    15h46
White House says US passed written warning of Moscow attack to Russia
   The White House on Thursday dismissed as nonsense Russia’s charge of Ukraine’s involvement in last week’s attack on Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall that claimed more than lives, saying it was clear that Islamic State was solely responsible. In a briefing to reporters, White House national...
    15h43
Russian military plane crashes in sea off Crimea - local governor
   A Russian military aircraft crashed into the sea on Thursday off the Crimean port of Sevastopol, the Russian installed governor of the region said.The pilot safely ejected and was picked up by rescuers. ivilian objects were not damaged, Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said.Earlier,...
    15h35
Russia says evidence links concert hall attackers to Ukrainian nationalists
   Russian investigators said on Thursday they had uncovered evidence that the gunmen who killed more than people in an attack on a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked to Ukrainian nationalists .Russia has said from the outset that it is pursuing a Ukrainian link to the attack, even...
    13h20
French lawmakers vote to outlaw discrimination against afros and braids
   France’s lower house of parliament approved legislation on Thursday to outlaw discrimination against dreadlocks, braids, afros and any other hair style, colour or texture, defeating some who called the bill an unnecessary import of U.S. ideas.Olivier Serva, a Black MP from the French Caribbean...
    05h04
Exclusive: China’s WuXi AppTec shared US client’s data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators
   U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec .SS had transferred U.S. intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources.The U.S. government is concerned that certain...
27  mars     12h45
Israeli strikes on Rafah raise fear ground assault could begin
   This March story has been refiled to change reference from ’exchange of prisoners’ to ’exchange of hostages for prisoners,’ in paragraph Israel bombed at least four homes in Rafah on Wednesday, raising new fear among the more than a million Palestinians sheltering in the last refuge on the...
28  mars     15h09
Dozens of stalled Israeli visas seen hindering Gaza aid efforts
   Difficulties getting Israeli permission for foreign staff to work in Israel and the Palestinian territories are hampering efforts to get aid into war shattered Gaza where civilians are facing imminent famine, according to U.N. data and aid workers.Six aid workers from the U.N. and other groups...
    11h02
Pope, looking healthy, begins busy four days leading to Easter
   Pope Francis looked well as he began four intense days of events leading to Easter on Thursday, and renewed his own ordination vow on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks Jesus’s founding of the priesthood the night before the crucifixion.Francis, who recently curtailed his speaking engagements...
    15h00
Kuwait hands 2 million to UNRWA for 2024, state news agency says
   Kuwait has handed its annual million contribution to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA , the Kuwaiti state news agency KUNA reported on Thursday.UNWRA said on Tuesday it had sufficient funds to run its operations until the end of May after many donors paused their...
    13h32
Palestinian PM Mustafa forms cabinet, calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
   Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa formed a new cabinet on Thursday in which he will also serve as foreign minister, making an immediate ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a top priority, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.Mustafa, an ally to President Mahmoud Abbas and a...
    09h37
King Charles praises ’hand of friendship’ in Maundy Thursday message
   King Charles, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, has praised people who extend the hand of friendship, especially in a time of need , and echoed the pledge to serve the nation that the British monarch made at his coronation last year.Charles delivered the remarks in a recorded message which...
    13h40
Britain to slow rise of minimum wage from 2025, government says
   Britain’s government has ended its push to use increases in the minimum wage to narrow the gap between the lowest earners and those on higher pay, offering some relief to employers after this year’s nearly jump.Britain’s minimum wage for workers aged and over will rise to . pounds ...
    14h06
Caught up in concert shooting, a Russian woman said goodbye to the world
   Russian artist Alyona Kazinskaya likes to fill her social media feed with cheerful messages and vivid floral paintings. For minutes last Friday night, it turned into a timeline of terror.Kazinskaya and a friend had bought last minute tickets to see Soviet era rock group Picnic perform in front...
    14h02
Pakistan to investigate army’s meddling in judiciary, law minister says
   Pakistan will set up an inquiry commission to investigate accusations by six High Court judges of interference and intimidation by the country’s powerful intelligence agencies in judicial decisions, the law minister said on Thursday.Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar made the announcement at a news...
    09h12
Poland, Ukraine hail progress in food import talks, but deal remains elusive
   Poland and Ukraine are close to an agreement on agricultural imports, the Polish prime minister said on Thursday, after intergovernmental talks in Warsaw failed to resolve an issue that has triggered protests by farmers.While both Donald Tusk and Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal spoke warmly of...
    13h46
Coastguards rescue 124 migrants off Spain’s Canary Islands
   Spanish coastguards rescued migrants, including young children and a person needing a wheelchair, from two wooden boats in the seas off the Canary Islands on Thursday.One boat carrying people was located nautical miles south of Gran Canaria, Spain’s Red Cross said. The second, carrying ...
    13h54
France to provide UNRWA funding ensuring right conditions are met - foreign ministry
   France will provide over million euros . million to United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA this year to support its operations amid the devastating war in Gaza, said the foreign ministry in Paris. We will make our contributions while ensuring that the conditions are met for UNRWA...
    13h47
Hungary prosecutors probe graft case tape leaked by former government insider
   Hungarian prosecutors are investigating statements made by a former government insider alleging attempts to influence a graft case, and have heard former justice minister Judit Varga as a witness, a chief prosecutor said on Thursday.Peter Magyar, , a lawyer formerly close to the government who...
    13h38
Two suspects in Moscow concert hall attack appeal pre-trial detention, RIA says
   Aminchon Islomov and his father Isroil Islomov, two of eight suspects detained over suspected involvement in the Moscow concert hall attack last week, have appealed their pre trial detention, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Thursday.The Islomov family brothers Amirchon and Dilovar and...
    13h42
UN rights panel concerned by extrajudicial killings in Indonesia’s Papua
   The U.N. Human Rights Committee said on Thursday it was concerned by extrajudicial killings in Indonesia’s Papua province, where separatists and Indonesian troops have been fighting for decades. The Committee is concerned by multiple reports of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of...
02  mars     10h21
Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens
   Long the world’s undisputed cocoa powerhouses accounting for over of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both facing catastrophic harvests this season. A worker transports a bag of sun dried cocoa beans at a warehouse in Kwabeng in the Eastern Region, Ghana,...
28  mars     13h00
Palestinian fighters battle Israeli forces around Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital
   Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in close combat around Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital on Thursday, where the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they attacked Israeli soldiers and tanks with rockets and mortar fireThe Israeli army said it continued to operate around the hospital...
    12h52
Kyiv asks NATO partners for air defence supplies after Russia hits energy system
   Ukraine asked Western allies for air defence supplies at an extraordinary meeting of the NATO Ukraine Council on Thursday after a spate of Russian missile attacks on critical and energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s mission to NATO said.Russia last Friday conducted its largest air strike on Ukraine’s...