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Yemen's war is being fuelled by economic profiteering: UN

United Nations expert have said that economic profiteering is fueling the catastrophe in Yemen, where a six-year war involving attacks on civilians, forced disappearances and other violations of human rights show no signs of abating. The report, which was examined by AP, describes the deteriorating situation in Yemen. The panel concluded that both the Yemen government and Houthi rebels "appear to be indifferent" to the devastating impact fighting is having on the people, with both parties continuing to divert the country's scant economic and financial resources towards their war efforts. Among...

Iraq asks UN to monitor elections to ensure 'fair and safe voting'

Iraq's minister of foreign affairs has asked the United Nations to oversee delayed elections, following repeated allegations of interference by outside parties. Fuad Hussein sent a letter to the UN Security Council on Wednesday asking for the general elections - now slated for October - to be monitored by international observers, to ensure they remain fair and free of outside influence. "Talks took place over the foreign ministry collaborating with international institutions, including the UN, to support fair elections taking place and to monitor the whole process," Hussein said according to a...

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Led ‘Large Group’ Tour Of Capitol Building Before Riots

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) told CNN in an interview that he saw Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) giving a tour of the Capitol building to a large group of people days before rioters stormed the same building. Public tours have been banned at the Capitol since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.  Gun-enthusiast Boebert is an outspoken ally of former President Donald Trump. “We were walking in a tunnel and we saw her and commented who she was and she had a large group with her,” Cohen told CNN. “Now, whether these people were people that were involved in the insurrection or not, I do not know.”...

Police search Navalny's Moscow apartments, office: aide

Russian police on Wednesday launched raids on the Moscow apartments and offices of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his team said, ahead of new protests called for the weekend to demand his release. Ivan Zhdanov, the head of Navalny's FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation, said police were searching flats linked to Navalny and the foundation's offices for alleged violations of coronavirus restrictions. Russia's Interior Ministry said Wednesday it had launched a criminal probe into the violation of sanitary and epidemiological measures during a Moscow protest that saw thousands rally in support o...

Italy could have saved 200 drowning migrants: UN committee

Italy failed to protect the right to life of more than 200 migrants on a boat that sank in the Mediterranean Sea in 2013, the UN Human Rights Committee found Wednesday. Italy "failed to respond promptly to various distress calls from the sinking boat, which was carrying more than 400 adults and children," the committee found. Rome "also failed to explain the delay in dispatching its navy ship, ITS Libra, which was located only about an hour away from the scene". Three Syrians and a Palestinian, who survived the sinking but lost their families in the tragedy, brought a joint complaint before th...

'We will fight for our Germany,' Holocaust survivor to far right

Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch on Wednesday called for a stronger defence of the country's "fragile" democracy and issued a searing rebuke to the far right: "We will fight for our Germany". In an emotional speech to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Knobloch told the Bundestag lower house of parliament that extremists and conspiracy theorists were exploiting fears around the pandemic and a diversifying society. "We must not forget for a single day how fragile the precious achievements of the last 76 years are" since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1...

UN urges consensus as deadline for Somalia vote looms

UN special envoy James Swan on Wednesday warned that Somalia was approaching "unpredictable territory" should its political leaders not broker an urgent settlement over how to proceed with delayed elections. Somalia was scheduled to hold indirect parliamentary and presidential elections before February 8 but the process has been derailed by political disagreements between the foreign-backed central government in Mogadishu and its federal states. Swan said it was "unrealistic" at this point to expect the election to occur on time, with a number of key procedural steps already months behind sche...

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France asks the US for to show more 'realism' towards Hezbollah

The US needs to adopt a more realistic approach towards Lebanon's Hezbollah in order to help Beirut break a political and economic impasse that threatens the plunge the country into crisis, a French official told reporters on Tuesday. Although there was no clarification on what "changes in attitude" meant, it could be a request for President Joe Biden's administration to reassess the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act, which has been in place since 2015. Imposed during President Barack Obama's administration - in which Joe Biden served as vice-president - the law aims to sever He...

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