2024-02-04: News Headlines

newarab (2024-02-04). Gaza war: UN experts say UNRWA funding cut 'defies humanity'. newarab.com UN human rights experts on Friday condemned in the "strongest possible terms" any attempts to "delegitimise" the Several countries "The grossly disproportionate decision to suspend funding by some of the largest dono…

albawaba (2024-02-03). Alleged US airstrikes hits multiple areas in Syria. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In a tragic incident, unidentified aircraft carried out three rounds of airstrikes on locations in the Deir ez-Zor countryside in eastern Syria, leaving six individuals dead, according to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday.Details reveal that the aircraft, whose identity remains unknown, targeted sites in Al-Hajeera and Al-Shabli in the deserts of Deir ez-Zor. Afterward, they revisited these locations and struck another site near the Ain Ali base in Deir ez-Zor.A third round of airstrikes followed, hitting the Ain Ali Shrine in the Deir ez-Zor desert, resulting in additional…

newarab (2024-02-03). Iran Guard among three dead in Israel strikes in Syria. newarab.com The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "three members of pro-Iran groups, including an Iranian and an Iraqi" were killed in "Israeli a…

Pavel López Lazo (2024-02-03). SAIDR Sara Minkara visits Cuba. plenglish.com During her visit, SAIDR Minkara urged for greater inclusion of Cubans with disabilities in all aspects of society. She engaged with representatives from the Cuban government, alumni of Embassy-sponsored programs, and students from educational institutions in Havana. | During her visit, SAIDR Minkara underscored that policies promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality in the workplace encourage economic growth and respect for human rights across society. | She also emphasized the importance of dismantling physical and cultural barriers for persons with disabilities in order to build a world where "society demand…

Carla Stea (2024-02-03). Ukrainian "Myrotvorets" Kill List Claims Another Assassination, the Torture and Murder of American Journalist Gonzalo Lira. globalresearch.ca

newarab (2024-02-03). Assad regime 'levelled' mass graves: Saydnaya Detainees. newarab.com Satellite imagery has revealed levelling operations at the site of mass graves believed to hold thousands of political detainees killed in Satellite analysis of the site shows extensive excavation and levelling of the land, including upturning of the soil, between the summer of 2022 and January 2023…

EarthRights International (2024-02-04). WORLD BANK GROUP INSTITUTION AGREES TO SETTLE CASE ALLEGING IT ABETTED MURDER. cadtm.org

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-04). Coroner refers Jai Wright's death to DPP. greenleft.org.au

EarthRights International (2024-02-03). WORLD BANK GROUP INSTITUTION AGREES TO SETTLE CASE ALLEGING IT ABETTED MURDER. cadtm.org

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-03). Coroner refers Jai Wright's death to DPP. greenleft.org.au

Joe Piette (2024-02-03). Pennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability struggles. workers.org A Workers World article featuring an incarcerated person's struggles for disability rights is being denied entry into the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute at Coal Township. William "Billy" Rinick, who wrote the letter to WW newspaper featured in the article entitled "Fighting for disability rights behind bars" (workers.org/2024/01/76247/) cannot read the . . . |

Joe Piette (2024-02-03). Pennsylvania prison bans WW article on disability struggles. workers.org Billy Rinick A Workers World article featuring an incarcerated person's struggles for disability rights is being denied entry into the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute at Coal Township. William "Billy" Rinick, who wrote the letter to WW newspaper featured in the article entitled "Fighting for disability rights behind bars" (workers.org/2024/01/76247/) cannot . . . |

Maureen Clare Murphy (2024-02-03). Funding freeze could halt UNRWA operations by end of month. electronicintifada.net Rights groups say suspension of support could "constitute complicity in genocide."

newarab (2024-02-04). Canada may follow US lead, sanction W. Bank Israeli settlers. newarab.com The announcement came a day after the US "We are looking into how to make sure that those…

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (2024-02-04). Why The United States Is Reimposing Sanctions On Venezuela. popularresistance.org Even the US business magazine Forbes expressed surprise at the reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela's gold sales and its threat to do the same with oil. The oil sanctions especially, if reinstated, would precipitate higher gas prices and further debilitate the Venezuelan economy, forcing more people to leave the country out of economic necessity. | The Venezuelan government, for its part, has not been contrite. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez protested "the wrong step of intensifying economic aggression against Venezuela." She warned that if Washington takes the threatened measures, Venezuela will cancel repa…

newarab (2024-02-03). US sanctions four West Bank Israeli settlers amid Gaza war. newarab.com The US on Thursday imposed The sanctions marked a rare US move against Israel, which has been conducting The move comes as…

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