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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering a range of options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine.
NATO looking at options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine
BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering a range of options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine, including establishing a fund of $100 billion over five years from the alliance members, according to three sources familiar with the matter.“It is future-proofing,” said one senior European diplomat familiar with the discussions, explaining that changes being considered will make it more challenging for individual NATO members to alter and disrupt ongoing support for Ukraine as swiftly.While the fund would not be large enough to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia indefinitely, it would give the country a base of support that NATO officials view as vital as they worry about Donald Trump securing a second term in November that could mean the US...
April 03, 2024

NATO looking at options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine

Palestinian children receive stationery items at an UNRWA school in south Lebanon. — courtesy UNICEF/Dalia Khamissy
$414 million appeal for Palestine refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan
GAZA — As hostilities continue in Gaza, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, urged donors not to forget about Palestinians affected by the ongoing war in Syria.UNRWA on Tuesday launched a $414.4 million appeal for Palestine refugees in Syria and those who have fled the country for neighboring Lebanon and Jordan due to the conflict.The funding will be used to keep cash and in-kind food assistance running, along with healthcare, education, and technical and vocational training.“We must continue to support Palestine Refugees affected by the 13-year-long Syria crisis,” said Natalie Boucly, UNRWA’s deputy commissioner-general for programs and partnerships, speaking at the launch in Beirut.“While the horror unfolding in Gaza is consuming most of our attention,...
April 03, 2024

$414 million appeal for Palestine refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan

Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the country needs $2bn (£1.6bn) to tackle hunger caused by low rainfall which has wiped out about half of the maize crop.
Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa declares national disaster over drought
HARARE — Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought crisis.Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the country needs $2bn (£1.6bn) to tackle hunger caused by low rainfall which has wiped out about half of the maize crop.The grain shortage has pushed up food prices and an estimated 2.7 million people will face hunger.Neighboring Zambia and Malawi have also declared states of disasters due to drought recently.The drought is a result of the El Nino global weather pattern and has triggered a humanitarian crisis in southern Africa.Zimbabwe now joins the regional scramble to find enough maize on the international market.Authorities say that the number of people needing food aid will be higher than the initial projection.Zimbabwe was once...
April 03, 2024

Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa declares national disaster over drought

Primary school students sitting in an art classroom being taught by a teacher in the North East of England. — courtesy Getty Images
Labour commits to full Tory childcare expansion plan
LONDON — Labour will back the childcare expansion plan being rolled out by the UK government if it wins the next general election.Shadow education minister Bridget Phillipson has said Labour will not remove any entitlements promised to families "in the future".The government announced an expansion of free childcare to all children under five in England in last year's budget.There are three phases of expansion, with the final one in September 2025.Previously, 30 hours of free childcare was available for working parents with children aged three and four, although that is limited to 15 hours a week if at least one parent earns more than £100,000.From April 1, working parents with two-year-olds are eligible for 15 hours of free childcare and that will be extended to...
April 03, 2024

Labour commits to full Tory childcare expansion plan

Charles H. Townes, Columbia University professor who invented the
White House wants Moon to have its own time zone
WASHINGTON — The White House wants US space agency NASA to develop a new time zone for the Moon — Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT).Because of the different gravitational field strength on the Moon, time moves quicker there relative to Earth — 58.7 microseconds every day.This might not seem like much, but it can have a significant impact when trying to synchronize spacecraft.The US government hopes the new time will help keep national and private efforts to reach the moon coordinated.Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland's Astronomer Royal, told BBC Radio 4's Today program: "This fundamental theory of gravity in our Universe has an important consequence that time runs differently in different places in the Universe."The gravity on the Moon is slightly weaker and the clocks...
April 03, 2024

White House wants Moon to have its own time zone

Khaled Khiari, assistant secretary-general for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific of the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, briefs the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security. — courtesy UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN calls for restraint following Iran consulate attack in Syria
NEW YORK —A senior UN official on Tuesday urged the Security Council to work to avert further escalation in the Middle East following the deadly airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria’s capital, Damascus.Briefing ambassadors, a day after the attack, Assistant-Secretary-General Khaled Khiari stressed the need for restraint.“We appeal to the Council today, as we do every month, to continue to actively engage all concerned parties to prevent further escalation and the worsening of tensions that undermine regional peace and security,” he said.UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the attack, his spokesperson said on Tuesday, reaffirming that the principle of the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected in all cases.The UN...
April 03, 2024

UN calls for restraint following Iran consulate attack in Syria

Flags have been flying at half-mast across Finland
Finland mourns after child killed in school shooting
HELSINKI — Flags have been flying at half-mast across Finland after a child was killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting at a school on Tuesday.The shooting took place in a classroom at Viertola school in Vantaa, to the north of the capital, Helsinki.Police said all three victims were 12 and that a suspect, also aged 12, had fled after the shooting but was later detained.One of the injured children is Kosovan, its foreign ministry said.All public buildings lowered their flags from 8:00 (05:00 GMT) on Wednesday to mark a day of mourning, the interior ministry said.According to the Finnish TV channel MTV Uutiset, the boy wore a mask and noise-cancelling headphones while carrying out the shooting.He ran off as soon as police arrived and was eventually detained "in a calm...
April 03, 2024

Finland mourns after child killed in school shooting

Rubiales is also due to go on trial for sexual assault for kissing the player Jenni Hermoso on the mouth after last summer's World Cup final
Luis Rubiales arrested in corruption investigation
MADRID — Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation.He was detained on his arrival in Madrid from the Dominican Republic.He is suspected of receiving illegal commissions when negotiating a lucrative deal to stage the Spanish Super Cup competition in Saudi Arabia.Prosecutors are seeking a two-and-a-half-year jail term for Rubiales, who denies any wrongdoing.Rubiales was in the Dominican Republic when police searched his home last month.They also searched the football federation headquarters and made several arrests.Rubiales is also separately due to go on trial for sexual assault for kissing the player Jenni Hermoso on the mouth after last summer's World Cup final. — BBC
April 03, 2024

Luis Rubiales arrested in corruption investigation

Cameras captured violent shaking from massive earthquake near Taiwan
Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine
TAIPEI — Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800 others.The powerful 7.4 magnitude tremor shook the island’s east coast, hitting at 7:58 a.m. local time 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of Hualien city and at a depth of 34.8 kilometers (21 miles), according to the US Geological Survey. It was followed by several strong aftershocks with tremors felt across the island, including by CNN staff in the capital Taipei.Taiwan’s National Fire Agency (NFA) said in an update on Wednesday that the death toll had risen to nine, while 882 people have been injured.The NFA did not indicate the severity of the injuries.At least 131...
April 03, 2024

Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine

Dr. Thaer Ahmad
Palestinian American doctor walks out of Biden meeting in protest
WASHINGTON — A Palestinian American doctor walked out of a meeting with President Joe Biden before it was over Tuesday evening, underscoring the high tensions, anger and concern from Arab, Palestinian and Muslim American communities amid the Israel-Hamas war.Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency physician from Chicago who traveled to Gaza earlier this year, told CNN he abruptly left the meeting that included Vice President Kamala Harris, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, other administration officials and a small group of Muslim community leaders.While the president has often faced protests and interruptions at public events in the last several months, Ahmad’s decision to leave the meeting is perhaps the most intimate moment of protest the president has faced to date since Israel’s...
April 03, 2024

Palestinian American doctor walks out of Biden meeting in protest

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