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Are going to watch and see how this plays out over the coming days and weeks. matt rivers, cnn, port-au-prince haiti. anchts aid groups are also sounding the alarm about escalating violence and instability in haiti. unicef estimates at least 1.5 million haitian children are in urgent need of emergency aid, including medicine, food, clean water, and so on. the agency says the rising violence is only compounding that crisis. making it more difficult for aid workers to enter and get around the coun...

1996, the u.s. launched something called operation pacific haven. and it was all pulled together on very short notice but they did it. 6,600 iraqi kurds and other iraqis who had assisted american aid groups and american coalition forces in iraq. 6,600 of them were rushed, by air, they were airlifted out of northern iraq and also turkey. to a place they could be kept safe. they were brought here, to the u.s. territory of guam. and those 6,600 iraqi kurds spent, on average, a number of weeks there...

Borisjohnson is going to have a number of one—to—one meetings with the eu leaders who are here, so that will start creeping up the agenda again in the coming days.- again in the coming days. adam flemin: , again in the coming days. adam fleming. our— again in the coming days. adam fleming, our chief _ again in the coming days. adam fleming, our chief political - fleming, our chief political correspondent. well, the g7 leaders here are expected to agree to donate at least a billion doses of...

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So the question of vaccinating the world high on the agenda. world leaders expected, as we were hearing, to donate at leasti billion doses of vaccine to poorer nations. aid groups have welcomed those promises but they also point out that many of the doses will not arrive until next year, and they say that more must be done right now to help inoculate at—risk populations around the world. sean dilley has this report. britains vaccination roll—out has been one of the success stories of a pande...

The United States has begun restricting visas for people undermining efforts to resolve the deadly fighting in Ethiopias Tigray region, saying it is time for the international community to take action in a conflict that has sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing and fears of famine. Thousands of people are estimated to have died in the six months the conflict between Ethiopian troops and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front has raged in the northern regional state. Atrocities including rape,...

Photo: Yangon Free Funeral Service Groups offering emergency medical services and help with funerals are closing around Myanmar amid a drop in funds and with volunteers targeted by junta forces for assisting anti-coup protesters injured in army and police crackdowns, sources said Thursday. Many benevolent charity group members are now in hiding, with offices shutting down in cities and towns across the country. “We’re caught between the opposing sides,” said an official of o...

The civilian death toll in the crackdown by the Myanmar junta has reached 550 since the Feb. 1 coup, a human rights group said Saturday. Of those, 46 were children, according to Myanmars Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Some 2,751 people have been detained or sentenced, the group said. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected governm...

Helping bring festive cheer to isolated and vulnerable residents of Matlock Thanks to funding from Western Power’s ‘In This Together-Community Matters Festive Fund’ gifts and cards have been delivered to 100 vulnerable or isolated residents in Matlock, bringing smiles to their faces at a difficult time. Monday, 21st December 2020, 10:50 am The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating effect on many groups in society, not least the elderly and disabled, many of whom rely on social clubs ...

Faro, Loulé and Portimão to have shared apartments for homeless people By TPN/Lusa, in Algarve · 17-12-2020 18:00:00 · 0 Comments In total, 35 more people will be accommodated (10 in Faro, 10 in Portimão and 15 in Loulé). Faro, Loulé and Portimão will have shared apartments to welcome, as of next year, people who are homel...