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Hardline ex-minister warns UK PM of poll wipeout over immigration
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» LONDON - Britain's hardline former interior minister Suella Braverman on Wednesday issued Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak an ultimatum to get tougher on immigration or face certain wipeout at the polls.
UN seeks to investigate Hamas sexual violence
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» GENEVA - The UN rights chief voiced deep concern on Wednesday over allegations of sexual violence by Hamas militants during their October 7 attack, calling on Israel to allow his team in to investigate.
UN: Gazans living in ‘utter, deepening horror’
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» GENEVA - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living in "utter, deepening horror", the UN human rights chief said Wednesday, as he pleaded for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
EU: Turkey 'must soften tone to avoid isolation'
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» ISTANBUL - Turkey has become internationally isolated and must dial down its rhetoric if it wants to win key concessions from the European Union, a top European official said Wednesday in Istanbul.
Israeli ground forces move into south of Gaza
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES): Israel has moved ground forces into the south of Gaza in its war on Hamas, witnesses said Monday, despite global concern over mounting civilian deaths and fears the conflict will spread elsewhere in the Middle East.
Rights orgs sue Netherlands over F-35 parts to Israel
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» THE HAGUE: A group of human rights organisations took the Dutch government to court on Monday, arguing its supply of parts for F-35 fighters contributes to violations of international law in Gaza.
COP28 host UAE choking from its own 'toxic' air pollution: HRW
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates is choking under "alarmingly high" air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday as the oil-rich country hosts the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai.
Israel bombs Gaza as pressure mounts to protect civilians
AFP, Published on 03/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel struck Gaza targets Sunday in its war on Hamas sparked by the October 7 attacks as international concern mounted over the spiralling civilian death toll on the third day of fighting after a truce ended.
Tantric yoga sect guru to appear before France judge
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» PARIS: The leader of a controversial tantric yoga sect was to go before a French judge on Friday, a judicial source said, after he was arrested in a probe along with over a dozen others on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and people trafficking.
Kissinger, giant of statecraft, molded post-war US history
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.