by Agency Reporter | Apr 5, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK government and arms industry is complicit in Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, including three British citizens, says Campaign Against Arms Trade. The workers were killed by a strike from a Hermes 450 drone manufactured by Elbit Systems. The...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 4, 2024 | Briefing
TO support journalists in the region affected by the war in Gaza, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has established a new press freedom centre in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. This follows the opening of two centres in Ukraine in the aftermath of Russia’s...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 3, 2024 | Briefing
ABOUT 1,000 people a day are fleeing into South Sudan from Sudan after nearly one year of war, arriving in scorching heat and with children in dire need of support, Save the Children said. More than 600,000 people – both refugees and returnees – have crossed the...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 3, 2024 | Briefing
NEW Money and Credit figures released on 2 April by the Bank of England show mortgage borrowing rising, while consumer credit borrowing slowed to £1.4 billion in February, though it was still 8.7 per cent higher than a year earlier. Debt charity StepChange says that...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 2, 2024 | Briefing
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION Member States have agreed to resume negotiations from 29 April to 10 May, aimed at finalising a pandemic agreement . The decision came at the end of two weeks of intensive country-led discussions on critical subjects aimed at making all...
