Countries: Jordan, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Syrian Arab Republic Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNRWA will continue to provide quality primary education, based on the principles of human rights, to over half a million girls and boys. Its health centres will receive […]

North Korea’s army of hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars throughout much of 2020 to fund the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation of international law, according to a confidential United Nations report.

Summary The English Commercial Court has emphasized the difficulties airline operators and aviation lessees could face in seeking to rely on the common law doctrine of “frustration” in order to avoid their payment obligations under leases, especially where such leases contain “hell or high water” provisions and where they make […]

Countries: Ethiopia, Sudan Source: European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations It is estimated that thousands of fighters and civilians have died, and about 4.5 million people require emergency food assistance, of whom an estimated 2.2 million are displaced.

People damage their health in various ways and one of those ways is to continue to use fossil fuels. In 2018 alone more than 8 million people died from fossil fuel-related pollution, according to new research. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University […]

DNA analysis of teeth and other fossilized remains from five caves in China has suggested that it was unlikely early modern humans were in China as early as 100,000 years ago.