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'Unfreeze Afghan funds' demanded after 13,000 newborns die from malnutrition
Mar 24, 2022 10:40Human rights advocates are demanding that the United States immediately release billions of dollars which it seized from Afghanistan's Central Bank after ending its 20-year military occupation of the country last year, causing a devastating hunger crisis that has already killed thousands of Afghan newborns in 2022.
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Iran reiterates political solution to Yemen crisis as Saudi war enters 8th year
Mar 24, 2022 08:04Iran has reiterated its support for a political settlement of the conflict in Yemen as the devastating war and inhumane blockade on the impoverished country, led by Saudi Arabia, enters its eighth year.
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Academics call for imposing sanctions on the Zionist regime
Mar 24, 2022 01:38A delegation from the International Academic Campaign against Occupation and Apartheid headed to the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as well as the UN Special Coordinator’s Office (UNSCO) in Gaza.
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Declassified docs show CIA used prisoner as a torture training prop
Mar 23, 2022 04:45Twenty years later, none of those responsible for the CIA's heinous regime of torture were ever prosecuted.
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Palestine top priority of Muslim world, no compromise with apartheid Israel on Palestinian cause: Iran
Mar 22, 2022 09:06Iran has once again reiterated the significance of Palestine for all Muslim nations, rejecting any compromise with the apartheid regime of Israel on the Palestinian cause.
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In act of piracy, Saudi Arabia seizes another fuel ship bound for Yemen’s Hudaydah
Mar 22, 2022 07:46The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led war coalition has confiscated yet another emergency fuel ship bound for the Red Sea port of Hudaydah, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis which has been tightly controlled by Saudi Arabia.
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Minority people face ‘ethnicity penalty’ on car insurance in UK
Mar 22, 2022 06:31Some British motorists living in areas where there are a higher proportion of colored people have paid more than white people for their car insurance, a charity organization has found.
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Wisconsin police officer accused of using knee restraint on 12-year-old girl
Mar 21, 2022 03:53An off-duty police officer accused of placing his knee on the neck of a 12-year-old girl to restrain her after a school fight in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is under investigation and remains employed, the city's police department said in a statement.
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Occupy-style protest in Boise highlights brutal conditions faced by the unhoused in the US
Mar 20, 2022 17:28The injustice of homelessness — a human rights crisis of immense proportions in the United States — is on stark display in Idaho’s modestly sized capital of Boise, just as it is across the nation.
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Pay attention: Yemen starves
Mar 20, 2022 17:26The World Food Program estimates that half of all Yemen’s children under 5, about 2.3 million kids, are at risk of acute malnutrition, with 400,000 at risk of dying if they don’t receive treatment, according to a spokesperson for the organization who asked not to be named because even the U.N. fears the consequences of criticizing Saudi Arabia.