UN agency warns disregard, disrespect for international law ‘reaching a deafening crescendo’
Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon insisted on Wednesday at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Gaza that his country’s humanitarian efforts remain “as comprehensive as ever.”
Kenya senate impeaches deputy president to set East African nation on course to ethnic tensions
Rigathi Gachagua, who has denied the allegations, had been due to defend himself against the charges in the Senate on Thursday afternoon ahead of the vote. When he failed to show up, his lawyer Paul Muite said the deputy president had been hospitalised with intense chest pains, urging the Senate to pause proceedings for a couple of days.
Impeachment of Kenya’s deputy president disrupted after he’s taken ill, senate adjourns sittings
Rigathi Gachagua was due to defend himself against the 11 impeachment charges in the Senate on Thursday afternoon, before senators take a vote on whether to remove him from office.
Harris deflects questions on Biden’s fitness, doubts Trump’s temperament and democracy credentials
Donald Trump and Republicans have claimed that immigrants are fuelling violent crime in the United States, although studies show immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than others. Asked about her recent comment that there was “not a thing” she would change about the actions of the Biden administration, Harris said, “Let me be very clear, my presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.”
Revolutionary Guards warns Israel against retaliation after barrage of strikes by Iran on October 1
Israel shows no signs of easing its military campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon after assassinating several of its leaders, and Hamas in Gaza and it has vowed to punish Iran for its October 1 attack.
England men’s team borrow leaf from women’s national team success, hire foreigner for Three Lions
One concern is that Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern team didn’t look much like that last season when they were beaten to the Bundesliga title for the first time in 12 campaigns. Neither did his Chelsea or PSG teams towards the end. At those three clubs, and indeed Dortmund and Mainz before that, he left in strained circumstances.
While England have hired a winner, it’s no guarantee in international football Thomas Tuchel will replicate club success
Gareth Southgate was always cast in some quarters as the reason England kept falling just short, which, after decades of falling a long way short, seemed strange. Whatever the undoubted qualities he brought to the job, it was always assumed by his critics that any half-decent coach who operates in the top half of the Premier League or the later stages of the Champions League would bring all of those plus, crucially, the hard-nosed winning mentality and hard-wired tactical expertise of a Pep Guardiola, a Carlo Ancelotti or a Jurgen Klopp.
Debt-ridden Zimbabwe to compensate white farmers who lost land in seizures 20 years ago
In this file photo dated March 29, 2000, Pippa van Rechteren, left, and her two-year-old twins Catherine, second from left, and Elisabeth (third from left) are blocked from leaving their house on the white-owned commercial farm, Chiripiro, by Zimbabwe war veterans in Centenary district, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: AP
Robbed of resources, brutalised by armed groups and ignored by UN, displaced millions in Congo report dire mental health crisis
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UN: 27m people in southern Africa go hungry as subregion endures worst hunger crisis due to El Niño
Scientists say sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most vulnerable parts of the world to climate change because of a high dependency on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources. Millions of African livelihoods depend on the climate, while poor countries are unable to finance climate-resilience measures.
