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The non-profit organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it rescued 73 people after carrying out two rescue operations at sea off the Libyan coast. On Friday night, 47 people were taken from a fiberglass boat that was in difficulty, and on Saturday morning, another 26 people were rescued from a wooden boat. All were safely brought aboard onto the Geo Barents rescue ship, a vessel operated by MSF, which is now on the way to its assigned port of Ravenna, Italy. The MSF rescue team says that two people refused help on Friday and decided to stay on the fibreglass boat. They were later assist...
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Extreme heat is killing more than 175,000 people a year in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared today. Globally, there have been around 489,000 heat-related deaths each year between 2000 and 2019, with people paying the “ultimate price” for climate inaction. Europe is the fastest warming continent on Earth, accounting for the large proportion of global deaths. The United Nations agency’s dire assessment comes days after a call to action on extreme heat from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic - wilting under increas...
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Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, a moderate by his country's standards, has promised to open up dialogue with Western powers — but he doesn't want radical changes to his country's Shiite theocracy. To prove this point, the heart surgeon and long-time legislator went to the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to celebrate his victory in the country's recent election. Majid Golpour, an expert in international politics and professor at the Free University of Brussels, says the decision to pay his respects to the Ayatollah was a clear...
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Before I first visited Copenhagen’s Mjølnerparken neighbourhood a decade ago, I had heard all the rumours: dangerous and overcrowded with unemployed foreigners refusing to integrate. Instead, I found tree-lined courtyards and children laughing in playgrounds while people from all walks of life from across the world shared coffee and conversations and looked out for each other. Soon after, I found a home there. Then, the government labelled our home a ghetto, prompting years of anguish. Next week, we hope that the EU’s top court can help end this discriminatory policy forever. This is why we de...
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Israel has accepted in principle to attend a key council on its bilateral relations with the European Union, but has dismissed top diplomat Josep Borrell’s suggestion the meeting should be convened specifically to address the situation in Gaza, an Israeli official told Euronews. However, the official reply letter by Israel to the EU seen by Euronews, does not refer to any specific agenda discussions nor a period or a date of when the association could take place. Borrell announced in late May he would convene Israel “as soon as possible” to discuss “the situation in Gaza” and the “respect of h...
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A group of older Swiss women who won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights on climate change are urging their government to fully comply with the judgment. In April, the court ruled in favour of an association of more than 2,000 women, known as the KlimaSeniorinnen, stating for the first time that insufficient government inaction to tackle greenhouse gas emissions is a breach of human rights. It was seen as a historic decision, not only in Europe but around the world. Swiss politicians fought the case from the startHowever, there was resistance within Switzerland from the start...
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Massive Attack have cancelled one of their upcoming shows in Georgia, in protest of the “government’s attack on basic human rights”. The British band were due to perform on 28 July at the Black Sea Arena, north of Batoumi, the country's second-largest city. Today (12 June), Robert Del Naja posted a message on the band’s social networks to announce that their decision was taken to protest against human rights violations by the Georgian government. The announcement comes as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Georgia recently, protesting a parliament-approved law regulating the med...
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War crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups might have taken place in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians, The UN Human Rights Office said. Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations of rules of proportionality, distinction and precaution by the Israeli forces in Saturday’s raid at the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Palestinian health officials say at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, were killed in the operation. Laurence sai...
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