29 March 2024; AP: NEW YORK — Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world teamed up Thursday night to deliver a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting $26 million-plus for his reelection campaign.
28 March 2024; MEMO: A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip must be “substantive, not symbolic” to end the “darkest chapters” of humanity, a UNICEF official said on Tuesday.
“Gaza has shattered humanity’s records for its darkest chapters. Humanity must now urgently write a different chapter,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder said at a UN press briefing in Geneva.
22 March 2024; MEMO: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday called on the international community to adhere to the same principles without double standards, whether in Ukraine or Gaza, Anadolu agency reported.
23 March 2024; MEMO: China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun announced that the US-proposed draft resolution in the Security Council on the Middle East greenlights the continuation of killings in the Gaza Strip.
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese shared that the crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since 7 October could preoccupy the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the next 50 years.
01 March 2024; MEMO: The New York Times is facing criticism following doubts raised over the accuracy of a story published in December regarding allegations of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas, Anadolu Agency reports.
Controversy has erupted over one of the reporters involved in contributing to the story.
03 March 2024; MEMO: The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF warned Sunday of rising child deaths in the Gaza Strip as Israeli offensive and siege on the territory continues, Anadolu reports.
At least 15 Palestinian children died from dehydration and malnutrition at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip as Israel tightened a crippling blockade on the area, according to local health authorities.
26 February 2024; MEMO: UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, warned today that a full-scale Israeli military operation in Rafah would deliver a death blow to aid initiatives in Gaza, where humanitarian assistance remains “completely insufficient”.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street returned to record heights Friday to cap a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by high inflation and worries about a recession that seemed inevitable but hasn’t arrived.
NEW YORK (AP) — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office.
Video made public Friday of the seven-hour, closed-door session last April shows the Republican presidential frontrunner’s demeanor going from calm and cool to indignant — at one point ripping Attorney General Letitia James lawsuit against him as a “disgrace” and “a terrible thing.”
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