Hong Kong to Cut Elected Council Seats in Blow to Democracy
[ad_1] ChinaPower , Politics , Middle East Chief Executive John Lee's proposal would reduce the proportion of directly elected seats in local district councils to...
Ruto Sets Timeline for Withdrawal of KDF Soldiers From Somalia
President William Ruto announced on Tuesday, May 2 that his government would begin withdrawing Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) troops from Somalia in 2024 in a...
118, 2 May 2023, Press Release Regarding the Joint Action Taken by Türkiye and the U.S. on Freezing the Assets of Two Individuals Affiliated to Terrorist Organizations / Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[ad_1] Türkiye and the United States decided to take a joint action on freezing the assets of two individuals who have been identified...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has a Nuclear Complication
Zaporizhzhia, one of the four regions Russia has annexed and claimed as a part of the Russian Federation, is at the heart of Ukraine’s strategy...
Sudan rivals announce 72-hour truce extension as fighting rages
At least 528 people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured since the long-running power struggle between the Sudanese army and the RSF. Despite...
The UAE’s China-Nixon Moment Has Arrived
Given the range of grim climate projections in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, it’s easy to be downbeat about our planet’s...
Imprisoned Iranian women journalists receive UN press freedom prize
Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi and Narges Mohammadi have been named as the laureates of the 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize at a time...
Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as children, versus nearly one in four a decade ago, according to the...
Sudan latest: Over 100,000 have now fled says UNHCR
Those fleeing the fighting include Sudanese refugees as well as people who were themselves refugees in Sudan. UNHCR estimates that the number of refugees and...
Stamping out corruption can give SDGs $3 trillion boost
“Corruption drains more than 5 per cent of the global GDP,” said Lachezara Stoeva. “Of the approximately $13 trillion in global public spending, up to...