Rapists or peacekeepers? Investigators alarmed by UN inaction on sex abuse by Rwandan soldiers in Central African Republic
“If I haven’t gone to see MINUSCA, it is because I don’t know who to turn to, but also because I am afraid,” said Jeanne*, a fruit and vegetable vendor who said she was raped by a Rwandan peacekeeper last year. “They say that their peacekeepers have come from their country to protect us, only to rape us, so what can we do?”
US secretary of state Blinken lands in Israel to revive Gaza ceasefire but protagonists unlikely to budge
Israel is accelerating military operations to push Hezbollah away from its northern border while thrusting into Gaza’s densely packed Jabalia refugee camp in what Palestinians and UN agencies fear could be an attempt to seal off northern Gaza from the rest of the enclave.
Russian embassy in Sudan says it is investigating shoot-down of cargo aircraft in Darfur region
Mobile phone footage showed fighters among the burning wreckage, claiming they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile. Identity documents shown included a Russian passport and an ID that linked back to a UAE-based company, whose phone number was disconnected.
Tensions soar in Mozambique as police fire teargas at opposition supporters in Maputo
Police fired teargas at other protesters in the port city of Maputo earlier in the day and said there was also unrest in the neighbouring province of Gaza. Six people were arrested, police spokesperson Orlando Mudumane told state-run radio. Maputo’s streets were largely deserted in other parts as many stayed at home, either to observe the shutdown or to avoid the unrest.
As race tightens further Harris, Trump scramble for every vote in battleground states two weeks to Election Day
Donald Trump, 78, frequently rejects any notion that he is a threat to democracy, arguing it is Democrats who are the real threat because of the criminal investigations he and his allies have faced for their attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney teams up with Kamala Harris to cast Trump as a dangerous choice
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was essentially exiled from the Republican Party for participating in a congressional investigation of Trump’s involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. She lost her congressional seat in a primary battle two years ago.
As Putin hosts BRICS summit in Russia it’s emerged Moscow is willing to discuss Ukraine war ceasefire after US elections
BRICS’ share of global GDP is forecast to rise to 37 per cent by the end of this decade while the share accounted for by the Group of Seven major Western economies will decline to about 28 per cent from 30 per cent this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.
While political tensions are more pronounced since 2020 election, US doesn’t keep databank
On September 26, a Michigan man was arrested for assaulting a US Postal Service worker who delivered a Harris campaign mailer to his house. The postal worker was in her truck when Russell Valleau, 61, approached on a bike, yelling that he “did not want that ‘Black bitch’ in his mailbox,” according to police records and a statement from the Oakland County prosecutor.
New normal: Americans start seeing electoral violence as ‘part of the way politics happens’
Americans are starting to see violence as “part of the way politics happens,” said Nealin Parker, who heads Common Ground USA, a nonprofit that studies ways to bridge America’s political and cultural divides. In the current climate of mistrust, she added, “incidents of violence can metastasize into something bigger.
Iran expresses concern Israel is planning to bomb its atomic sites, appeals to UN to intervene
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel would listen to key ally the United States regarding a response to Iran’s missile attack but would decide its actions according to its own national interest.
