Sudan downplays progress in Israel ties, dismiss plans for Israeli embassy in Khartoum
Eleven months after Sudan agreed to normalize relations with Israel, the country’s foreign minister has played down progress in building ties with the regime,...
Canada’s Catholic Church apologizes ‘unequivocally’ to indigenous peoples for school abuses
Canada’s Catholic bishops have issued a public apology to indigenous people for a century of grave abuse and suffering at church-run residential schools. In a...
DR Congo: Abuse allegations amid Ebola outbreak ‘a sickening betrayal of the people we serve’
Sexual abuse and exploitation allegedly carried out by World Health Organization (WHO) staff during the UN health agency’s response to an Ebola outbreak in...
UN food systems confab draws fire from food activists
(GIN)—The first-ever UN Food Systems Summit saw nearly 300 commitments from hundreds of thousands of people from around the world and across all constituencies...
President Raeisi talks face-to-face with southwestern Iranian nomads, promises to resolve their problems
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has promised to resolve problems faced by Iranian nomads, in particular water shortages, upon visiting southwestern regions of the country...
UK Labour Conference condemns Australia, UK, U.S. agreement as threat to world peace
‘AUKUS is the next step in a new cold war with China,’ said one opponent of the trilateral agreement. ‘It makes the Indo-Pacific, and the...
Liberian leader announces year-long bicentennial to begin January, 2022
GIN)—On Feb. 5, 1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. Next year,...
UK’s surging gas prices turning into full-blown crisis
Surging gas prices across the United Kingdom are turning into a full-blown crisis, as the government holds emergency talks amid fears more small suppliers...
Indigenous language endures in Peru despite centuries of discrimination
CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru—Leila Ccaico walked slowly to the front of her class in a rural village in the Andes. Reluctantly, she faced her classmates,...
Myanmar: UN expert says current international efforts failing, urges ‘change of course
The UN independent rights expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the UN Human Rights Council on Sept. 22 that conditions inside the...