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Israeli military escalates campaign against Hamas in Gaza Strip, reports say
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Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Weary Palestinians are somberly marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Hamas and Israel traded more rockets and airstrikes and Jewish-Arab violence raged across Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-05-13 22:39:37-04
JERUSALEM â Israel Defense Forces says its troops on the ground and in the air are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip, according to a tweet sent by their official account Thursday afternoon. The tweet was sent around midnight local time.
Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing
underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice,
they prioritize militarized responses that are not only
abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive.
African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic
narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country
is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords,
but by the less visible kinds of violence that prevail around the
world: violence against women or the everyday violence of crime and
discrimination against immigrants.
To do better next time, the group proposes a top-to-bottom overhaul of the pandemic preparedness system, including the creation of a new global health council akin to the United Nations Security Council and more money and power for the World Health Organization (WHO). “Pandemics pose potential existential threats to humanity and must be elevated to the highest level,” the authors write.
“It s a frank assessment of literally systematic failure in the COVID response at every level, from WHO down to country level,” says Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. But Gostin says the panel is vague on how to bring about the massive changes it seeks and has missed an opportunity to call out countries bad behavior, including China’s early handling of the outbreak. “The independent panel had the opportunity to give WHO political cover to name names, to identify fault, honestly, where it occurs. And they didn
Nothing about J&K is India s internal matter: Pak FM
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Hamza Ameer ( IANS) |
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KUWAIT CITY, May 19, 2019 (Xinhua) Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks at a press conference in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on May 19, 2019. Pakistan is ready to facilitate de-escalation of tension in the region and support peace and s. Image Source: IANS News
Islamabad, May 10 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that when it comes to the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir, no decision on the subject can be Indias internal matter.
Qureshi said the final settlement of what he called Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) dispute lies in the United Nation Security Council s (UNSC) resolution, calling for a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices.