(Middle East Eye) – The UK will continue to export billions of pounds of weapons to Saudi Arabia after anti-arms trade campaigners lost a high-profile legal case in London on Monday. The high court ruled on Monday morning that arms sales to the oil-rich Gulf kingdom can continue after lawyers acting for Campaign Against Arms Trade […]
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(iNews) – Last October Saudi forces in Yemen bombed a funeral. They turned what was meant to be a scene of mourning into a massacre, in a “double tap” strike that killed over 140 people and wounded hundreds more. This was only one of the terrible atrocities that Saudi forces have been accused of committing in a two […]
(New York Times) – The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was suspending plans for a cholera vaccination campaign in Yemen — reversing a decision made a month ago — because the disease’s rampant spread and the ravages of war there would make such an effort ineffective. Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations aid coordinator […]
(Huffington Post) – A deadly cholera outbreak that has plagued Yemen since last year reached a grim milestone on Sunday as the number of suspected cases surpassed more than 300,000. More than 1,700 people in the war-torn country have died of cholera in the past months, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Monday, and 300,000 […]
(CNN Philippines) – The military said on Monday it is exercising caution in fighting against children who are in the enemy frontlines in Marawi City. Armed Forces of the Philippines Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said government troops are receiving “narratives from escapees that children are being employed in the firefight.” The escapees refer to hostages […]
(Independent) – Chilling footage has emerged of an Isis suicide bomber cradling a baby in her arms seconds before she blows herself and the child up. Initially it appeared the woman was fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul, which has now fallen from Isis control, with her child. But the video shows the woman is clutching a trigger which she detonates seconds […]
(Radio Free Europe) – Afghan police have arrested members of a human trafficking ring they say kidnapped 25 children and tried to smuggle them into Pakistan, where they were to be trained as suicide bombers for the Afghan Taliban. At least one of the children who was to be trained as a suicide bomber was 4, […]
(BBC) – A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen is thought to have infected 300,000 people in the past 10 weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. The situation has continued to “spiral out of control”, with about 7,000 new cases every day, the ICRC warned. More than 1,700 associated deaths have been reported, according […]
(UN News Centre) – As South Sudan enters its sixth year of independence, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling the situation in the country “a catastrophe for children” and cautioned that they are being denied a childhood in nearly all aspects of their lives. “A country’s independence day should be celebrated. However, today in South […]
(STAT) – Barely two decades ago, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia first treated rape and sexual assault as distinct war crimes. That decision revolutionized our understanding of rape as a weapon of war, leading in 1997 to the first-ever prosecution of rape as a war crime in Rwanda. Today we are seeing another cruel method of […]
