Germany urges EU to end individual state’s veto rights

posted in: European Union, News

Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Mass (file image) The right for individual EU member states to veto decisions must be scrapped, Germany’s foreign minister has declared. Heiko Maas said that the 27-member bloc cannot be hamstrung by single hold-outs. “We can … Read More

Are Iranian Navy Vessels Headed to Venezuela?

A year ago Iran sent multiple fuel tankers to Venezuela to aid its Western Hemisphere ally during the latter nation’s fuel crisis. Now a pair of Iranian Navy ships, including a frigate, has rounded the Cape of Good Hope and is … Read More

Mount Nyiragongo: Half a million without water in DR Congo – charity

Displaced people – including children – have been seen queuing to get drinking water at a temporary camp in Sake – Reuters Nearly 500,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been left without clean drinking water after a … Read More

Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes Molucca Sea near Indonesia

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck in the Molucca Sea in Indonesia on Thursday. An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck Indonesia’s Molucca Sea on Thursday. (Representative Image | PTI) An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck in the Molucca Sea about … Read More

Boris Johnson narrowly avoids Conservative rebellion over foreign aid budget cuts

Boris Johnson has narrowly avoided a rebellion by some of his own Conservative Party MPs over cuts to the foreign aid budget. Thirty Tories, including former prime minister Theresa May and four other cabinet ministers, had backed a rebellion against … Read More

Joe Biden set to urge Boris Johnson to solve post-Brexit Northern Ireland issues at G7

Joe Biden will meet with the Prime Minister at a one-on-one meeting in London on Thursday, before the G7 summit over the weekend (Getty Images) Joe Biden is set to raise pressure on Boris Johnson to not go back on … Read More

Why Biden’s plan to slow migration through international aid is unlikely to succeed

Like the United States, most developed countries are shifting away from respecting refugees’ rights at the border to trying to prevent migration in the first place President Biden tackled immigration in his first 100 days by rescinding the “Muslim” travel bans; halted … Read More

More COVID cases and fewer vaccines for EU’s migrants

posted in: News, Refugee Crisis Europe

A man receiving a shot of the vaccine against COVID-19 at a mobile NPHO unit at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/VANGELIS PAPANTONIS According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit … Read More

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