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If negotiations succeed, the rebels will end their 50-year armed struggle and transform into a political movement. The Philippine government will resume peace talks with the country’s communist rebels, in a bid to end decades of civil strife. Authorities will re-engage with the New People’s Army (NPA), the military wing …

by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, November 27, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (IPS) – The rise in authoritarianism worldwide has prompted a coalition of over 85 civil society organizations (CSOs) to call on the Geneva-based Human Rights Council to appoint a Special Rapporteur—an independent UN expert– to …

Doha, Qatar – The next major battle in Sudan’s civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) could spiral into all-out ethnic violence that puts entire communities at risk, residents, experts and aid groups told Al Jazeera. Over the last week, the Joint Protection Forces (JPF) …

The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize after business groups challenged it in court.The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that the rule – which was scheduled to go into effect in December – will now be effective …

While U.S. policy has been staunchly pro-Israel so far, there has been growing pushback in congressional offices and the Biden administration, as well as among Democratic voters generally, over how the war has been unfolding and its toll on noncombatants, especially children. Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from the Bronx …

Pentagon says it targeted training facility and a safe house in response to continued attacks on US forces. The United States has carried out two more air strikes in Syria against facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its aligned groups. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the …

NEW DELHI: In a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual summit, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a GOP presidential hopeful for 2024, criticised former President Donald Trump for his past praise of dictators and terrorist organisations, as reported by the New York Post.Haley rebuked Trump …

A Hamas fugitive who ‘ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank’ lives in a council property in a North London borough that is home to roughly a fifth of the UK’s Jewish community, a report has revealed. Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, who served on Hamas’s ruling body, managed …

A power blackout in the Gaza Strip caused by Israel’s “total blockade” of the besieged enclave has prompted condemnation and calls from international rights groups for urgent action as “hospitals risk turning into morgues” amid heavy Israeli bombardment. On Wednesday, Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel and shut …

NEW YORK: Humanitarian groups are scrambling to assist civilians caught in the war between Israel and Hamas and determine what aid operations are still safe to continue – efforts that are being complicated by an intensified blockade of Gaza and ongoing fighting. Two days after Hamas militants went on a …