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The silence — or worse — of human rights hawks on US sanctions against Afghanistan
Jan 11, 2022 13:29Months after the US-backed Afghan government fell to the Taliban, ordinary Afghans now face what could be their direst winter in decades. Thanks to the economic collapse that accompanied the U.S. military withdrawal, coupled with the imposition of sanctions and the cessation of much humanitarian aid, millions of Afghans must contend with the very real prospect of starvation.
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Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner’s condition ‘similar to clinical death’
Jan 11, 2022 12:10A well-known Palestinian prisoner’s health condition has deteriorated, amid deliberate Israeli regime negligence of his situation, to a status that is “similar to clinical death,” a report says.
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UN launches $5bn aid appeal for Afghanistan amid worsening crisis
Jan 11, 2022 08:24The United Nations (UN) has announced the launch of a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan to avert a major humanitarian crisis in the South Asian country.
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Rights group voices concern over ‘enforced disappearance’ under MBS in Saudi Arabia
Jan 10, 2022 05:06A human rights group has voiced concern over the unknown fate of dozens of victims of enforced disappearance in Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom is in a dark era under the rule of the infamous Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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The cruel farce of US regime change policy in Venezuela
Jan 09, 2022 16:33Biden’s willingness to let the bankrupt and evil policy against Venezuela is a black mark on his record. This was a Trump-era policy that he inherited, so it would not have been that difficult for him to repudiate Trump’s policy at the beginning of his term.
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The US is building, rather than tearing down GTMO prison facilities
Jan 07, 2022 18:24There seems to be little effort to hide the fact that the Biden Administration does not plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in his first term as he once declared. That pledge is but a whisper on the wind, much like the promises made by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
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America's wars are far more costly than the Pentagon admits
Jan 07, 2022 18:13According to a major 2019 study, from 2001 to 2019, taxpayers incurred a cost of $6.4 trillion for US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.
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Taliban appeal for humanitarian aid 'without political bias'
Jan 07, 2022 16:32The Taliban have called on the international community to send emergency humanitarian aid to Afghanistan without "political bias," as snow and freezing temperatures have worsened the already "sensitive situation" of millions of Afghans.
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Saudi-led coalition prevents another fuel ship heading for Hudaidah from docking at Yemen
Jan 05, 2022 13:11The Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen has banned a new ship carrying fuel and heading for the strategic port city of Hudaidah from docking at Yemen, amid crippling fuel shortage in the country.
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China slams Gen. Soleimani’s assassination as another US ‘war crime’
Jan 04, 2022 14:20China has slammed the 2020 assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as yet another “war crime” committed by the United States.