WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is van plan om volgende week een miljardenplan aan te kondigen voor de wederopbouw van de Gazastrook, meldt persbureau Reuters op basis van ingewijden. Dat zou Trump gaan doen tijdens de eerste formele vergadering van zijn nieuw opgerichte Vredesraad.
Volgens twee Amerikaanse functionarissen die Reuters sprak, komen delegaties uit zeker twintig landen volgende week naar Washington voor de bijeenkomst. Onder hen zouden ook een aantal staatshoofden zijn.
Onder meer Turkije, Egypte en Saudi-Arabië hebben zich aangesloten bij de Vredesraad, maar veel Europese landen zijn terughoudend. Ze vrezen dat Trump de raad niet alleen zou willen gebruiken om te overleggen over Gaza, maar ook over andere conflicten. Op die manier zou het een concurrerend orgaan voor de Verenigde Naties kunnen worden.
Volgens de ingewijden gaat de vergadering van volgende week in elk geval alleen over Gaza.
Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gift to divisive forces in British society
In 2020, the year Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco, migrants in the United Kingdom made tax contributions estimated to be worth around £20bn. Sir Jim, by jetting off to a tax haven on the French Riviera, saved himself an estimated £4bn. It took some brass neck for the expat owner of Ineos and co-owner of Manchester United football club to lecture the country, using inflammatory and offensive language, on the perils of immigration.
Where to begin? The statistics used by Sir Jim to back his claim that Britain was being “colonised” by migrants, in an interview with Sky News, were flatly wrong. They were also astonishingly crass, coming from a man who presides over a sporting institution famous for and proud of its global fanbase and international connections.
Continue reading...A campaign of ethnic cleansing and ‘tectonic’ new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip service
Protecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and enforcement measures for the illegally occupied West Bank, Israel’s defence minister spelt it out: “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,” Israel Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.
While the world’s attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with entire Palestinian communities erased across vast swathes of land.
Continue reading...Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say
The Yangtze River in China, which has been in ecological decline for 70 years, is showing signs of recovery thanks to a sweeping fishing ban.
The ban was made more effective by the implementation of “evolutionary game theory”, which included finding alternative employment for fishers.
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