Israel’s Occupation Must End, Says UN

SG Anthony Guetaras official portrait By Donald Chakamanga The conflict in Palestine is one of the most painful in the world. To many, it remains a puzzle, when and how the apartheid will end. Since June 1967, Israel’s ruthless policies of land confiscation, illegal settlement and dispossession, rampant discrimination which have inflicted immense suffering on…

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Billionaire Richard Branson Says What Separates Great Leaders From The Pack Really Comes Down to 1 Word

Billionaire Richard Branson By Marcel Schwantes One of the biggest myths surrounding this leadership strength is that it’s a sign of weakness. One of the factors behind ineffective leadership is that person’s inability to display the strength of the most exceptional leaders: Vulnerability. There’s immense power in being openly vulnerable. It allows a leader to…

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First Person: Saving Lives and Preventing The Spread Of Cholera In Haiti

Community health worker Esterline Dumezil visits families in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince © PAHO/WHO A community health worker in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has described how she is going door-to-door to raise awareness about cholera prevention. The deadly but treatable disease has been spreading across the country and according to the latest government figures published…

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21 perish in a massive Gaza inferno

Jabalia Refugee Camp building north of the Gaza Strip on fire By George Swarei At least 21 people were killed and several others injured, Thursday, in a tragic fire that engulfed a residential building in Jabalia Refugee Camp north of the Gaza Strip, Gaza’s Interior Ministry said.  A preliminary investigation found a large amount of…

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