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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressuring European diplomats to cease any talks about Ukraine joining NATO, according to a member of Rada (the Ukrainian parliament), Oleksiy Goncharenko. This is no minor politician. The son of a former Odessa…

Road accidents kill 1.3 million people in a year in the world. While this is a shockingly big loss in itself, the overall burden for society is much higher at several levels, particularly in terms of serious injuries which apart…

“Progressives reject Republicans’ cynical attempt to imperil the lives of people seeking safety to pass this supplemental funding bill,” said leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. By Brett Wilkins The U.S. Congressional Progressive Caucus said Monday that most of its…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday [3 December 2023] sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: the pledges made at COP28 in Dubai fall well short of what’s needed to meaningfully tackle the climate crisis. As the…

Russian LGBT Community in Dire Need of International Support Russia’s Supreme Court ruled today that the “international LGBT movement” is an “extremist organization,” jeopardizing all forms of LGBT rights activism in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. In a…

At a vigil on Thursday, November 30, outside the U.S. Mission to the U.N., the Atlantic Life Community, Nukewatch, NYC War Resisters League, and others will call on the U.S. to be the first nuclear armed state to respond to…

The Permanent Observer, currently Riyad Mansour, is charged with representing the State of Palestine to the United Nations.Palestine has signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). It was among the original 50 states parties to…

For the first time since the Nuclear Ban Treaty was agreed by 122 countries at the United Nations in 2017, the US Congress is represented at a treaty meeting. The Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear…

With Christmas fast approaching and shoppers gearing up for their gift-giving, safe toy advocate BAN Toxics issued a warning to the public concerning the sale of bouncy (also known as inflatable hoppers) and squeaky plastic toys that might contain toxic…

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the Louisiana coast for the source of a leak in a 67-mile-long pipeline that has spilled over 1 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. By Paige Bennett When the…