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Jun 20, 2024 | 
timesofisrael.com | Claire GALLEN |Serene Assir |Nina Larson
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
timesofisrael.com | Nina Larson
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Global temperatures “smashed” heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday — warning 2024 was likely to be even hotter. The annual State of the Climate report by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization confirmed preliminary data showing that 2023 was by far the hottest year ever recorded.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
ibtimes.com | Nina Larson
The United Nations on Tuesday called on the international community to "flood" Gaza with aid amid reports that children are dying of starvation in the war-torn Palestinian territory. "With children starting ... to die from starvation, that should be an alarm like no other," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
macaubusiness.com | Nina Larson
by Nina LARSONRepression in Russia has soared since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, reaching levels not seen since Stalinist times, a top United Nations expert warned Friday. “The level of repression against the civil society independent media, and generally anybody with a dissenting voice … is unprecedented in recent history,” Mariana Katzarova told reporters in Geneva.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
modernghana.com | Nina Larson |Sylvie Husson |Jean-Michel CORNU
Serious violations are still being committed in Ethiopia despite a peace deal in the north, UN rights experts said Monday, warning the conflict was spreading across the country and putting regional stability at risk. "Atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in the country," the United Nations-backed investigators said in a statement.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
macaubusiness.com | Nina Larson
The UN urged Belarus Friday to reconsider a decree ordering the reclusive country’s embassies to stop issuing passports, warning it risked violating the rights of thousands of Belarusians living in exile. Tens of thousands of Belarusians fled the Moscow-allied country in 2020, after strongman Alexander Lukashenko brutally suppressed mass protests against his rule. Those living abroad had until now been able to get new passports at the country’s diplomatic missions.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
macaubusiness.com | Nina Larson
Ukraine saw more than 900 cluster munition casualties in 2022, amid broad Russian use of the widely-banned weapons, driving global casualty figures to a record high, a monitoring group said Tuesday. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year, it has “extensively” used stocks of old cluster munitions and newly developed ones, and Ukrainian forces also used such weapons “to a lesser extent”, the Cluster Munition Coalition said in an annual report.
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Jun 10, 2023 | 
world-today-news.com | Nina Larson
(Geneva) A new confrontation among the member countries of the UN over LGBTQ + rights prevented for the first time Friday from adopting the work program and the budget of the International Labor Organization. These differences in views on sexual orientation and gender identity could potentially permanently delay or even block the approval of the ILO’s $885 million bi-annual budget, in the midst of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
sinardaily.my | Nina Larson
09 Jun 2023 05:30pm ISTANBUL - Manchester City have been named as Europe's most valuable football club, ousting Real Madrid, in a report published on Thursday, before this weekend's Champions League final.
The Football Benchmark report ranks Europe's 32 most prominent clubs based on a series of criteria including assessments of their financial statements, squad value and the size of their broadcast market.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
mg.co.za | Nina Larson
A Swiss appeals court will on Thursday hand down its verdict in the case of a Liberian warlord accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Alieu Kosiah was found guilty in June 2021 of multiple atrocities committed during the first of Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars, in which about 250 000 people died between 1989 and 2003. Switzerland’s federal criminal court found him “guilty of violating the laws of war”.
