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Kyiv Jewish Forum 2024 to address Ukraine, Israel, US relations amid wars


The Kyiv Jewish Forum will launch on The Jerusalem Post website on




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Sheryl Sandberg: I sit on this stage as a proud Zionist and a proud Jew


Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg delivers an emotional address on her post-October 7 transformation, urging Jewish leaders to combat rising antisemitism and campus bias.



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Dan Bilzerian 'would bet entire net worth that less than 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust'


Bilzerian has also described Hamas as a "resistance organization" and had called its late leader Yahya Sinwar "a hero" after his death on the Piers Morgan Uncensored show.





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Kenya: House Education Committee Turns to Govt As Lecturers Strike Persists

[Capital FM] NAIROBI -- Talks between the National Assembly Education Committee,university lecturers, and public universities failed to kick off on Tuesday amid a stalement over a strike declared unprotected by courts.




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Nigeria: Police Dismiss Rumour of Bomb Explosion in Jos

[Premium Times] The police on Tuesday morning received a report that a bomb was allegedly planted around Murtala Way, Jos.




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Uganda: COP29 - Nankabirwa Calls for Clean Cooking Solutions to Support Refugee Communities, Protect Forests

[Nile Post] Energy Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa, has called for sustainable clean cooking solutions to support Uganda's extensive refugee population and safeguard the country's forests.




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Nigeria: WFP Calls for Urgent Life-Saving Support in Nigeria As 33 Million People Face Food Insecurity in 2025

[WFP] Geneva -- This is a summary of what was said by Chi Lael, WFP Spokesperson for Nigeria (speaking from Abuja via Zoom) - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.




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Africa: African Nations Demand Huge Climate Aid Boost Amid Global Distrust

[RFI] African nations are pushing for a dramatic increase in climate financing at the UN's Cop29 summit that opened in Azerbaijan on Monday - calling for $1.3 trillion (€1.22 trillion) annually to help the continent transition to renewable energy, adapt to climate impacts and address damage from climate-related disasters.




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Botswana: Botswana's Election Shock - Analyst Reflects On Why Voters Kicked the Ruling Party Out After 58 Years

[The Conversation Africa] The dramatic loss of power by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had governed Botswana since independence in 1966, will go down in history as one of the biggest electoral upsets in Africa.




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Ethiopia: Dereja, in Partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Skills and the Mastercard Foundation, to Host the 5th National Career Expo, Connecting Over 30,000 Recent Graduates

[Mastercard Foundation] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Dereja, in partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Skills (MOLS) and the Mastercard Foundation, will host the 5th National Career Expo on November 6 - 7, 2024, at Millennium Hall, Addis Ababa. The event will connect over 30,000 skilled professionals to the job market.




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Africa: Aid Workers Are Increasingly Seen As Fair Game in Violent Conflicts

[ISS] In Gaza and several African countries, protection failures see local aid workers bearing the brunt of this alarming trend.




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Ethiopia: UN Conducts Fourth Review of Ethiopia's Human Rights Record Amid Mounting Reports of Rights Abuses

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's human rights record is under review today, 12 November 2024, by the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, marking the fourth assessment of the country's human rights practices.




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Ethiopia: CPJ's Five-Year Review Reveals Significant Decline in Press Freedom Since Ethiopia's Last Review

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) presented to the UN's Human Rights Council a five-year review of press freedom in Ethiopia ahead of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Ethiopia at the 47th Session taking place today by the UN's Human Rights Council.




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Ethiopia: Who Is Fano? Inside Ethiopia's Amhara Rebellion

[The New Humanitarian] Bahir Dar, Amhara -- 'I have been in the jungle, struggling for my people.'




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South Sudan: Alarming Spike in Admissions of Children With Malaria At Aweil State Hospital

[MSF] An alarming number of children suffering from severe malaria have been admitted to Aweil state hospital, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the paediatric and maternity wards, in Northern Bahr El-Ghazal state, South Sudan, over the past three months. Malaria admissions to the children's ward began to increase in June and, by September, up to 400 children a week were being admitted to the paediatric department with severe malaria - more than double the numbers compared to September the




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Senegal: Former Rivals Sonko and Macky Sall Face Off Again in Senegal's Parliamentary Elections

[RFI] In the upcoming parliamentary elections in Senegal scheduled for this weekend, former presidential rivals Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and former President Macky Sall will face off once more - this time aiming to secure a majority in Parliament. This follows their competition in the March 2024 presidential election.




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Cancer medication funding to be taken over by health ministry from community chest fund

Responsibility for the funding of cancer medication is set to be taken over by the Health Ministry from the Malta Community Chest Fund • Minister announces Paola Health Hub set to launch operations this week




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Film Commission delays in funds and rebate crippling local productions – MEIA

Maltese producers raise alarm over ripple effect of late payments in funding and services to creatives from Malta Film Commission




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Man gets three years imprisonment for distribution of child porn

Man sentenced to three years imprisonment after admitting to possessing and distributing child pornography




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Children lay out their vision for Malta in conference with national leaders

Malta ESG Alliance holds ISIMGħUNA conference to bring children and national leaders together to talk about the country's future




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Extradition to US of man accused with malware sale quashed, case to be reheard

Maltese judge quashes extradition to the US of Daniel Meli, ordering that his case be reheard by the magistrates’ court 




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Commuters face heavy traffic as SiGMA convention kicks off

This event is expected to draw around 25,000 attendees, leading to significant delays on key routes across the island




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Australia-Fiji Relations Deteriorate

As Fiji continues its efforts to reinstitute democratic institutions, its relations with Australia continue to frustrate and complicate the process.




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Bo Xilai: Anti-Corruption Failure in China

At the root of Bo Xilai's fall from a shining political career is a chronic, systemic problem of corruption in China's single-party political system.




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The International Criminal Court in Afghanistan

Transitional justice efforts have failed in Afghanistan. The ICC has become one of the few serious accountability options still available to this war-torn country.




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Afghanistan's Upcoming Presidential Elections

On April 5, the Afghan people will vote in the country's third-ever presidential elections, but corruption and security pose significant obstacles.




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Iranian Footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani Could Face Execution

According to reports, Amir Nasr-Azadani, a soccer player from Iran may face execution for participating in ongoing anti-government protests in the country.




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Detention, Torture and Killing of Afghan Women Continues

Throughout 2022, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan introduced and enforced some of the worst gender-based discriminatory policies seen anywhere in the world.




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The Tibetan People's Limited Options

For 65 years China has been taking over Tibet, abusing Tibetans and destroying their culture, and no one's doing anything about it.




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Myanmar: Transition Within Transition

The elections are over and the transition towards a democratic government in Myanmar is currently underway. However, the sailing isn't smooth.




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Taiwan's Participation in the WHO Annual Assembly Is Vital to Ensuring Global Health Security

Taiwan accepts World Health Organization invitation despite political caveat from China




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Sustainable Food Production is Imperative for a Healthy Planet

Food waste has been a pressing concern for environmentalists and humanitarians for decades. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that approximately one third of all global food products end up in landfills, equating to roughly 1.3 billion metric tons. Conversely, according to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), about 3 billion people lack access to […]




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UNEP’s 2024 Emissions Gap Report Warns: ‘No More Hot Air, Please’

"We’re playing with fire, but there can be no more playing for time. We’re out of time," says UN Secretary General António Guterres




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IMF isn’t doing enough to support Africa: billions could be made available through special drawing rights

At the 2021 UN Climate Summit, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley called for more and better use of special drawing rights (SDRs), the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset. The special drawing right is an international reserve asset created by the IMF. It is not a currency—its value is based on a basket of five currencies, […]




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EU delegation visits Sindh Assembly for Strategic plans 2024-2029

Nazir SiyalKARACHI: Jeroen Willems, Head of Cooperation at the European Union Mission to Pakistan, called upon Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Syed Awais Qadir Shah, here on Tuesday. CEU Mission to Pakistan leader Jeroen was accompanied by Ms. … read more





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At COP16, Biodiversity Credits Raising Hopes and Protests

At the end of the first week at the 16th Conference of Parties on Biodiversity (COP16), finance emerges as the biggest issue but also shrouded in controversies. On Saturday, as the COP moved closer to its most crucial phase of negotiations, resource mobilization—listed under Target 19 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)—took centerstage, with […]




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The July Revolution in Bangladesh Is Rooted in Meta-Modernist Philosophy

The students and the common people of Bangladesh dared to do something in 36 days of July-August that was considered simply impossible by most people just days before August 5, 2024. They said ‘enough is enough’ to an old order that outraged their humanity, robbed their dignity and the rulers imagined that their citadel of […]




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Empowering Change & Resilience: Social Protection in the Age of Megatrends

Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization. Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since COVID-19, reversing past gains, and many […]



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“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts

Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.” That was in 1961. […]




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A Growing New Battle: Nuclear Weapons vs Conventional Arms

The warnings from the United Nations and from anti-nuclear activists are increasingly ominous: the world is closer to a nuclear war—by design or by accident—more than ever before. The current conflicts—and the intense war of words—between nuclear and non-nuclear states—Russia vs. Ukraine, Israel vs. Palestine and North Korea vs. South Korea—are adding fuel to a […]




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Stigmatization is the Entry Door for Repression and Violence

Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially with the massive use of social media. Hostile and stigmatizing narratives against civil society and civic activism, whether intentional or not, especially when propagated by authorities, create undue restrictions and hinder the exercise of the rights to freedom of […]




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Abortion is a Fundamental Human Rights Issue

The right to abortion is a human rights issue that no government agency, courts, local and state legislators, or anyone else has the right to violate or impede in any shape or form. It is a fundamental right that every woman must be free to exercise with impunity, in consultation with her doctor only, who […]




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Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional Economics

New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity and democracy. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (AJR) are well known for their influential cliometric work. AJR have elaborated earlier laureate Douglass North’s claim that property rights have been […]




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UN Remains Paralyzed as “Rogue Nations” Violate Charter & Escalate War Crimes

The United Nations continues to be virtually paralyzed – and remains politically impotent amidst two raging conflicts—as Russia and Israel keep defying the world body. The killings of civilians and the destruction of cities, particularly by Israel, are devastating and continue despite repeated warnings from the UN, its humanitarian agencies, the International Criminal Court (ICC), […]




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Has the United Nations Outlived its Usefulness?

The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived its usefulness as it commemorated its 79th anniversary due to its failure to reform itself and adjust to the new world order following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is significantly different from when the UN was […]




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Africa’s Most Important Election is Underway

Africa has had a terrible record dealing with extreme poverty. The late Adebayo Adedeji, the legendary head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), campaigned vigorously but unsuccessfully in the 1980s against the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment programmes, contending that these contributed to poverty’s increase. The continent’s economic growth plummeted rapidly […]




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When the truth becomes a lie: What Trump’s election means for the world as we know it

On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people of the United States for their active participation in the democratic process. He wisely omitted mention that the election of Donald J. Trump – who attempted to overturn the people’s mandate by inciting an insurrection in […]




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