US Is Preparing For ‘Inevitable’ Iranian Attack
The US is on high alert and believes that Iran is about to attack American or Israeli personnel in the Middle East in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike in Syria, according to reports. Since Friday […]
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Parts Of US Border Territory Now Belong To Cartels Says Border Agent
Much of the territory along the US-Mexico border are under the operational control of the cartels, according to an American border agent. A Fox news reporter also claimed that “this is a business”: “Illegal migrants […]
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European Court of Human Rights To Decide If Govt Should Protect Us from Climate Change
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) could rule that governments must protect people from climate change. Next week judges from the Strasbourg court will decide whether people’s human rights have been breached by the failure […]
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Tens of Thousands Demand Netanyahu’s ‘Immediate’ Replacement
Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in Tel Aviv to demand the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the return of hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.
Nearly six months to the day since Israel declared war on Hamas, around 100,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Democracy Square on Saturday evening, protest organizers claimed. Carrying Israeli flags and chanting anti-government slogans, the demonstrators called for early elections and implored Netanyahu to strike a deal with the Palestinian militants to release more than 100 Israelis thought to remain in captivity.
Speaking at a pre-protest press conference, Einav Zangauker, whose son was taken to Gaza as a hostage, claimed that Netanyahu is deliberately avoiding a deal with Hamas in order to please his far-right coalition partners.
BREAKING: TEL AVIV ON FIRE – HUGE PROTESTS pic.twitter.com/cdz77F8PU7
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 6, 2024
Protest in Tel Aviv demanding their PM Netanyahu resign. #Israel pic.twitter.com/ZKSU1PT7UT
— HK (@HKX07) March 30, 2024
“Netanyahu is failing the deal on purpose and he is standing between us and our loved ones in Gaza,” Zangauker said, according to the Times of Israel. “The hostages don’t have time for elections and to wait, the obstacle to the deal must be removed now and Netanyahu replaced immediately.”
As the crowd gathered in Tel Aviv, Israeli and Hamas delegations prepared to travel to Cairo for Egyptian- and Qatari-brokered ceasefire negotiations on Sunday. While a temporary ceasefire in late November saw Hamas swap 105 hostages for 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, successive rounds of talks have failed, with Israel refusing to accept the phased release of captives proposed by Hamas, and the militants refusing to accept anything less than a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Netanyahu insists that Israel will keep fighting until it achieves “total victory” over Hamas, and that the Jewish state will maintain “full security control” over Gaza once the war concludes.
The Israeli prime minister was unpopular before the war began in October, with tens of thousands of people marching almost weekly to demand his resignation over multiple corruption scandals and a package of controversial judicial reforms. The war put a stop to the protests until earlier this year but the demonstrations have increased in scale since last month.
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Nicaragua Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Ecuador Amid Fallout From Mexican Embassy Invasion
Nicaragua announced it had completely severed diplomatic relations with Ecuador Saturday over the storming of the Mexican embassy in Quito by Ecuadorian police.
Armed security forces stormed the Mexican embassy Friday to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had taken refuge in the diplomatic mission. Mexico immediately suspended diplomatic relations with Quito, claiming Mexican diplomats had sustained injuries as a result of the incident.
“Following the unthinkable and reprehensible acts committed… in Quito by forces that are supposed to protect the order and security of Ecuadorian citizens and their lives, our strong and irrevocable condemnation is transformed into a sovereign decision to sever all diplomatic relations with the Government of Ecuador,” the Nicaraguan government said in a statement published on El 19 Digital news portal.
Managua had previously withdrawn its embassy from Quito in 2020 over hostile statements by Ecuadorian authorities.
The highly provocative invasion of the embassy, considered sovereign Mexican territory under international law, provoked condemnation across Latin America. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela issued statements expressing anger over the incident. Honduras proposed an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a regional body promoted as an alternative to the controversial OAS.
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva declared his “solidarity” with Mexico, criticizing the violation of the embassy in “the strongest possible terms.”
Glas had been sheltering in the Mexican embassy since shortly after Ecuador issued a warrant for his arrest in December. Ecuador’s government has been engaged in a persecution campaign against supporters of former President Rafael Correa for several years. The country has been on a downward economic spiral since the populist leader left office, with the security situation in the country also deteriorating.
Observers had hoped current leader Daniel Noboa would pursue a change in policy after narrowly winning the country’s presidential election last year, but the arrest of Glas suggests Noboa is likewise committed to undermining Correa’s “Citizens’ Revolution” movement.
Ecuadoreans believed the populist movement was in safe hands when former Correa ally Lenin Moreno was elected president in 2017. But Moreno radically altered government policy and legally persecuted Correa’s supporters.
Moreno’s dramatic 180 caused many, including the country’s former foreign minister, to conclude Moreno had become an asset of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
“Moreno became a CIA insider due to blackmailing,” said ex-Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño to Sputnik in 2019. “We are absolutely sure that while Moreno was in Geneva [working as a UN envoy] he established a very close relationship with the CIA and the US administration because they may have found his secret bank accounts in Panama, opened by his brother to save money from corruption.”
The discovery of Moreno’s hidden assets with the release of the Panama Papers solidified the impression the former president was being extorted.
Economic instability has created an environment for organized crime to thrive in Ecuador, as in other Latin American countries where US-backed neoliberal policy has resulted in similar consequences.
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Only 59% of Americans Are ‘Satisfied’ With Their Health
Tomorrow, Sunday, marks World Health Day and the 75th anniversary of the World Health Organization.
The theme this year is: “My health, my right” and was chosen by the WHO to “champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.”
With this in mind, Statista’s Anna Fleck looks at data to find out: how satisfied are we with our health?
According to the Statista Consumer Insights macro-survey, respondents in Nigeria were particularly likely to say that they are satisfied or very satisfied with their general state of health in the last twelve months (85 percent).
By contrast, respondents in South Korea responded more negatively, with only 36 percent answering that they are satisfied or very satisfied with their health.
It’s worth noting here that this data does not necessarily mean that the inhabitants of South Korea are in worse health than those of Nigeria, for example, but that perceptions of health may differ.
This survey does not offer a look at the level of health of the population, but a glimpse of how people in different countries perceive their general state of health.
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