Iran to sanction U.S. nationals, entities for human rights violations: Official
According to humanrights.eadl.ir, Judiciary Deputy for International Affairs and Secretary-General of Iran’s Human Rights Office, Kazem Gharibabadi said that the United States sticks to its failed policy of maximum pressure on the Iranian people and misuses sanctions in order to pursue its own political agenda, while the U.S. officials and entities do not respect human rights values. The secretary-general noted...
Japan and China mark 50-year ties
TOKYO—Japan and China marked the 50th anniversary of normalization of their ties September 29 as their leaders Fumio Kishida and Xi Jinping stressed the importance of their strengthened relationship over the decades, though they still face difficulties. On Sept. 29, 1972, then-Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed a communique normalizing their ties and pledging peace and friendship....
78 Palestinian children under 18 killed by Israel in 2021, says statistical institution
Israeli military forces killed 78 Palestinian children under 18 years in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) says, marking the Palestinian Child Day. According to the records of the Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), 17 children were killed in the West Bank and 61 in the Gaza Strip, the...
What’s happening in the Motherland? Latest coup targets Burkino Faso
Last year there were more coups in sub-Saharan Africa than at any time in the past two decades. January 24 in Burkino Faso marked the continent’s first coup of the new year. In the West African country, the military is now in charge after deposing a democratically elected president. The development comes amidst a string of coups on the...
Sudan and America’s racist foreign policy
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Bush imposes pre-emptive sanctions on the Sudan WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Hostility toward the government of the Sudan by the U.S. and other Western nations only serves to extend the armed conflict and prolong the humanitarian suffering in Darfur, Sudan’s Foreign Minister told reporters at the National Press Club here, in a satellite video conference from Khartoum June 6. “The biggest...
U.S. ‘surge’ strategy fails to curb continued violence in Iraq
JIM.LOBE Iraq war anniversary: The quagmire enters its fifth year (FCN, 04-09-2007)The greatest foreign policy blunder since Vietnam (FCN, 01-26-2007)Iraq war deaths 'top 650,000' (FCN, 10-31-2006)Life in ‘liberated’ Iraq a disaster, UN report says (FCN, 06-01-2005)Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's letters to Pres. Bush on Iraq (NOI.org, 12-01-2001) WASHINGTON, (IPS/GIN) - President George W. Bush’s “surge” strategy was supposed to enhance...
More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada
KAMLOOPS, British Colombia—The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school, one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said in a news release that the...
Sheikh Hasina sworn in as Bangladesh prime minister for fifth term
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a fifth term after her party, Awami League won a landslide victory in the general election boycotted by the opposition. Hasina, 76, who will serve her fourth consecutive term as the 12th prime minister, got her oath ceremony administered by President Mohammad Shahabuddin, which was attended by politicians, foreign diplomats, civil...
Israel major benefactor of Iraq war
DUBAI (IPS)–The biggest beneficiary of the second Gulf War–without firing a bullet–will be Israel, say two Middle East experts. Umaimmah al-Jalahmmah, professor of Islamic studies at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, says, "The Jews were the driving force behind the war, with powerful pro-Israel lobbies in Washington seeking the destruction of one of the main threats to...
Eyewitnesses report ‘unlawful killings’ by IDF as raid on al-Shifa Hospital continues
The Israeli military’s raid of Gaza’s largest hospital stretched into its fourth consecutive day on March 21 as humanitarian aid groups, United Nations officials, and human rights organizations, voiced alarm over the impact on patients, healthcare workers, and displaced people trapped inside the besieged facility. The multi-day raid that began earlier in the week marks the second time Israeli forces...