Published by Reuters UK By Emma Farge and Dan Williams GENEVA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An independent commission of inquiry set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council after the 2021 Gaza war said Israel must do more than end the occupation of land Palestinians want for a state, according to a report released on Tuesday. Israel’s […]
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Published by Al-Araby As the world’s second-largest wheat-producing country, India had planned to export nearly 10 million tonnes of wheat to new customers in Europe, Asia and Africa in 2022-2023. Offering to help all the countries facing a food crisis, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi said, “We already have enough food for our people but […]
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Published by Reuters UK By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast by 1.2 percentage points to 2.9% for 2022, warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has compounded the damage from the COVID-19 pandemic, with many countries likely to face recession. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had […]
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Published by Mongabay It was a banner moment at COP26, one of the climate summit’s headline achievements. On stage, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo and put their pens to paper. As a part of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use — […]
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Published by Mongabay KIRKWOOD, South Africa — About 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, inland from the coastal city of Gqeberha, a brilliant patch of green stands out against a landscape recovering from six years of drought. The rudimentary fence of wooden poles and chicken wire surrounding it has been knocked over in places by kudu, […]
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Published by Al-Araby Dubai police said on Tuesday they arrested two brothers from the Gupta family wanted in connection to a corruption case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma. The arrest of Atul and Rajesh Gupta represents the latest major extradition arrest to be made by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, which has […]
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Published by Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African government said on Tuesday it was taken aback by Ryanair’s decision to force UK-bound travelers holding the country’s passport to take a test in Afrikaans language to prove nationality, calling the move a “backward profiling system”. The Irish low-cost airline had from last week started forcing […]
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Published by Raw Story By David Edwards Former Attorney General Eric Holder warned on Monday that the United States is “slipping into” a “political apartheid system” because conservatives have greater influence than their numbers would suggest. During an interview with Washington Post Live, Holder said he was concerned that gerrymandering allows politicians to pick their […]
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Published by Reuters DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just by 12% of the population that has long been identified with apartheid and the white minority. Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, which does not operate […]
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Published by Kaiser Health News Quenton Tompkins’ family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, South Carolina. His grandfather was a sharecropper in McCormick. His mother, who turns 88 this month, grew up as the youngest of 24 children. Branches of aunts, uncles, and cousins now stretch from Florida to Chicago. And although 48-year-old […]
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