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Western countries apply double standards and fail to respond adequately to human rights abuses, which fosters impunity and instability. This is the conclusion of the human rights organization Amnesty International in its new annual report published on Tuesday. “The international system for managing global crises is failing,” the review read. The human rights organization acknowledges that Western countries reacted quickly …

What was supposed to be a spectacular dive ended fatally for a 26-year-old tourist in Mallorca. The man dived out of nowhere, in front of his girlfriend, from a 12-meter high cliff into the sea. However, he miscalculated and landed on the rocks. The 26-year-old Californian was vacationing in Mallorca with his girlfriend, according to Spanish media. On Saturday, the …

27 mrt 2023 om 15:34Update: 3 uur geleden Humza Yousaf becomes the new Scottish Prime Minister. He won the battle for the leadership of the Scottish ruling party SNP on Monday. Yousaf, 37, succeeds Nicola Sturgeon, who surprisingly stepped down six weeks ago. Like his predecessor, Yousaf says he is determined to make Scotland independent of the UK. He thinks …

The rescue vessel Louise Michel in the port of Lampedusa. At the end of last week, 2,045 refugees arrived on this island in one day.Image Elio Desiderio / ANP / EPA In the night from Friday to Saturday, 267 migrants arrived. Friday morning, afternoon and evening, 1,778 refugees had already been identified, according to the news agency. A number of …

26 mrt 2023 om 23:05Update: 4 uur geleden Italian authorities stopped and seized a migrant lifeboat on Saturday. The craft named Louise Michel belongs to a German charity. On Friday, Italy also seized a lifeboat belonging to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that it has limited the number of asylum seekers …

Scientists suspect that the smell of sweat has a calming effect, as it stimulates a certain part of the brain. This is written by various foreign media, including the BBC. How exactly the volunteers took the sweat samples from themselves, the story does not say. Some of the volunteers have been known to collect sweat while watching a horror movie …

26 mrt 2023 om 09:00Update: 2 uur geleden In Lebanon, daylight saving time has not yet officially started, as Minister Najib Mikati decided on Thursday that the clocks would not move forward one hour until April 20. But a large part of the population is already switching to summer time anyway, because it does not agree with the minister. Christians …

International•25 March ’23 17:00Author: Remy Cook Iraq has won an ongoing arbitration case over the export of crude oil from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. This reports Bloomberg. Turkey has already informed Iraq that it will honor the deal and not export a drop of crude oil from Kurdistan without Iraq’s explicit consent. Iraq has won an ongoing arbitration case …

25 mrt 2023 om 06:45Update: 6 uur geleden Filippo Bernardini, who pretended to be others to obtain more than a thousand manuscripts, escaped from prison. A year in prison had been requested against the 30-year-old Italian, but a New York judge said the man had been in pretrial detention for quite a long time. Bernardini worked in London for the …

24 mrt 2023 om 23:36Update: 35 minuten geleden Paul Rusesabagina was released on Friday after serving more than 900 days in prison. The Rwandan rose to fame after the movie Rwanda Hotel informed a wide audience of his heroic deeds during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Rusesabagina, now 68, was handed over to Qatar’s ambassador to Rwanda, a US official …