Speaking this week as the death toll continued to climb above 30,000 and the United Nations warned of imminent famine, the SDLP MLA said: “I have attended rallies and spoken to activists and my constituents. We are all rightly outraged by the ongoing atrocities. How many life-saving supplies are so close, yet so far, to those who need them? "Knowing that, every day, women there are going without adequate and appropriate period products, instead using things like tent material and cloths, is...
WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus deplored renewed fighting Monday and Tuesday in and around northern Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, the largest medical compound in the besieged enclave, saying that “hospitals should never be battlegrounds.” He also noted that the hospital, originally the largest and most advanced in Gaza, had only “recently restored minimal health […]
Israeli forces launched the operation early today in and around Gaza’s largest hospital.
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Geneva, March 27 (Prensa Latina) Every year on the planet, a fifth of food is wasted, essentially coming from homes, while 783 million people go hungry, a new UNEP report warned today. The post UN warns of global loss of millions of tons of food first appeared on Prensa Latina.
About four and a half million children are not in education in Yemen, while
The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to serious problems if left unchecked, a UN report warned Friday.Roughly half of the planet's population is facing grave water shortages, with climate change-linked droughts affecting more than 1.4 billion people between 2002 and 2021, the report for the UN cultural agency UNESCO said.As of 2022, more than 2 billion people were without access to safely managed drinking water,...
Half of Gazans are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger, with famine projected to hit the north of the territory by May unless there is urgent intervention, a United Nations-backed food security assessment warned Monday."People in Gaza are starving to death right now. The speed at which this man-made hunger and malnutrition crisis has ripped through Gaza is terrifying," said Cindy McCain, head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)...
According to a new U.N.-backed report, famine could unfold in northern Gaza anytime between now and May.
The Finnish president, who took office two weeks ago, held phone talks with Jens Stoltenberg and António Guterres.
Social media platforms will face penalties, including legal action, if they do not take steps against disinformation in preparation for the European parliament elections in June, and other elections in Europe this year. The European Commission has published guidelines asking social media to “mitigate systemic risks online that may impact the integrity of elections”. The Netherlands will elect its 31 MEPs on June 6. The commission wants firms such as Facebook to set up specific internal teams...
The DVLA has issued a warning to drivers ahead of a rule change that will come into effect in ApriL