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Griffiths has worked as the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs for three years.UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who has played a key role in pressing for aid to the Gaza Strip and led earlier efforts for Yemen, has announced he will step down due to ill health. Griffiths, who has headed the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and served as the emergency relief coordinator for three years, said he has informed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of his intention to step down in June. “To everyone at UNOCHA, it’s been the privilege of my life. I am deeply…

Antitrust regulators will probe the Big Tech companies for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act.European Union regulators have opened investigations into Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta, in the first cases under a sweeping digital law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive, said on Monday that it was investigating the companies for “non-compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which took effect on March 7. The law requires six gatekeepers – which provide services such as search engines, social networks and chat apps used by other businesses – to…

NewsFeedThe UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil has passed a res­o­lu­tion de­mand­ing an im­me­di­ate cease­fire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan. The vote, which saw last minute delays over wording had 14 members vote in favour, with the US abstaining.Published On 25 Mar 202425 Mar 2024 Source link

The United Nations Security Council has demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the United States abstained from the vote. The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution on Monday. Speaking after the vote, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield blamed Hamas for the delay in passing a ceasefire resolution. “We did not agree with everything with the resolution,” which she says is the reason why the US abstained. “Certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of…

NewsFeedPalestinians who fled the ongoing Israeli siege of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital have given first-hand accounts of execution-style killings and other alleged abuses by Israeli forces.Published On 25 Mar 202425 Mar 2024 Source link

About four and a half million children are not in education in Yemen, while half of the country is in desperate need of medical aid, NGOs have warned. Reports released on Monday said two in five Yemeni children are not attending school while more than 17 million people – half of them children – require health assistance. The statistics underline the uncertainty of daily life following a decade of brutal war, the NGOs noted, pointing to mounting difficulties in funding and supplies as the number of emergency situations spread across the Middle East and other global locations. A Save the…

Beirut, Lebanon – Abbas Baalbaki, an environmental chemistry researcher at the American University in Beirut (AUB), has been looking at white phosphorous dropped by Israel onto Lebanese soil for nearly six months. Then, one day, a sample he and a colleague were looking at burst into flames. That should not have happened. The samples had been dropped over Kfar Kila on October 17 and collected on November 10 after it had rained in the area. They had been “spent” for nearly a month by the time Baalbaki tested them. He had read all the literature on white phosphorous and taken…

The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft ceasefire resolution at 10am New York time.Here’s how things stand on Monday, March 25, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis Israel said on Sunday it has killed dozens of fighters and arrested 450 in the week-old operation in and around al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, adding that it located military equipment and infrastructure in the area. The Israeli military has claimed that Hamas fighters have barricaded themselves inside al-Shifa Hospital and are throwing explosives from inside the maternity ward and emergency room. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the…

More than 133 people have been killed and more than 100 others were injured following a brazen attack on concertgoers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall before a performance by a Soviet-era rock band on Friday. Assailants dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert venue, which was left in flames with its roof collapsing after the deadly attack. Eleven people had been detained, including four people directly involved in the armed assault, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Saturday. ISIL’s Afghan branch – also known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K)…

The US vice president said that it would be a ‘huge mistake’ to move into Rafah with any type of major military operation.Israel could face “consequences” if it launches a ground assault on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, the US vice president has warned. Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview that aired on Sunday that it would be a “huge mistake” for the Israeli military to move on the city. The comments appear to underscore the continued strain in relations between Washington and Tel Aviv as the latter’s war in Gaza continues. The United States and…