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| Donors pledge US$857 million to protect and assist refugees in 2018 GENEVA – Donor governments on Tuesday pledged an initial US$857 million to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to fund operations destined to help some 67 million displaced or stateless people worldwide in 2018. The pledges, made at an annual meeting in Geneva, amount to around 11 per cent of ...
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| Labour leadership in UK has antisemitic views, says Israeli minister On a visit to Brussels, Gilad Erdan, Israel's public security minister, said his government had become concerned by the views expressed by figures in the highest echelons of the Labour party. "We recognise and we see that there are antisemitic views in many of the leadership of the current Labour party," ...
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Cahier Africain: Documenting War Crimes in CAR This two-part documentary begins with a small school notebook filled with pages of courageous testimonies from 300 Central African women, girls and men. They record crimes committed against them by Congolese mercenaries in the early 2000s. Amzine, a young Muslim woman, gave birth to a child ...
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| Justice Kennedy ruled for same-sex marriage. But he might flip in a big new LGBTQ rights case. As the Supreme Court wraps up arguments in a big new case for LGBTQ rights, the focus is on 12 key words from swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy: "It seems to me the state has been neither tolerant nor respectful." The case is Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Division. In short, it's ...
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| First of Chennai Six arrives back in UK from India A former British soldier has said "it feels excellent to be home" as the first of the Chennai Six arrived back in the UK, more than four years after they were ... He and five other British men had been guards on a ship to combat piracy in the Indian ocean but were jailed in October 2013 after being charged ...
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| China plans super-grid for clean power in Asia The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China's ambitious outbound investment strategy which links at least 65 countries along terrestrial and maritime trade corridors, will open massive new opportunities for trade and investment in frontier markets. Energy infrastructure investments are a backbone of BRI, ...
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