2024-03-13: News Headlines

tvbrics (2024-03-13). Chinese province steps up construction of modern industrial system. tvbrics.com This was announced by Communist Party Secretary of Hainan Feng Fei…

teleSUR (2024-03-11). UN: 68th Annual Meeting to Promote Gender Equality Opens. telesurenglish.net The 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women will begin today amid what experts are calling a crossroads for gender equality. | RELATED: | The agency's largest annual women's empowerment meeting will run through March 22 with discussions focused on accelerating the achievement of equality, addressing poverty, and strengthening gender-responsive institutions and financing. | The event brings together representatives of governments, civil so…

newarab.com (2024-03-13). Israel using starvation as 'weapon of war' in Gaza: Borrell European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday that Israel is deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. | | Addressing the UN Security Council in New York, Borrell stated that the lack of aid entering the Palestinian enclave is "manmade". | | "This humanitarian crisis… is not a natural disaster, is not a flood, is not an earthquake, it is manmade," the EU diplomat said.

Hannah Davenport (2024-03-13). Campaigners build cemetery outside Parliament warning 'cold homes cost lives'. leftfootforward.org Activists have constructed a cemetery outside the Houses of Parliament this morning drawing attention to the thousands of avoidable deaths in the UK due to fuel poverty and cold homes. | Hundreds of headstones made of insulation boards were put up in Victoria Tower Gardens along with an eight metre long funeral wreath with the message 'Cold Homes Cost Lives', as activists accused the government of failing on energy efficiency policy. | The protest, staged by Greenpeace UK activists, came as new analysis by the environmental campaign group found 58 people have died every day during winter due to cold homes over…

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