A Day Will Come When Israeli Crimes Would Be Held Accountable: Pakistan At UN | Dawn News English

 

DawnNews English – May 10, 2024

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, delivered a powerful statement during the 10th Emergency Special UNGA Session on Palestine, expressing Pakistan’s full support for the draft resolution submitted by the UAE on behalf of the co-sponsors.

Ambassador Akram condemned Israel’s crimes in Gaza, emphasized the need for accountability, and urged the General Assembly to take a step towards a final settlement of the conflict by admitting Palestine as a full member of the United Nations. Watch as he eloquently argues for the rights of the Palestinian people and calls for an end to Israel’s occupation.

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Canada abstains from UN assembly vote granting Palestinian territories new rights, privileges

CBC News – May 10, 2024

 

The UN General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new ‘rights and privileges’ in support of Palestinian statehood and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. Canada was among the countries that abstained from the vote.

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• Chomsky: Saudi Arabia is the “Center of Radical Islamic Extremism” Now Spreading Among Sunni Muslims
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UN votes in favor of Palestinian membership: What does it signify? | DW News

DW News – May 10, 2024

Today, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Palestinian bid to become a full member, recommending the Security Council reconsider the matter. The motion, which grants the Palestinians significantly more rights to participate in General Assembly sessions, but not regular voting rights, was supported by 143 countries. The US vetoed a Security Council resolution last month that would have paved the way for that. Ahead of today’s vote, Israel’s ambassador to the world body shredded the UN charter, saying that was what countries who support Palestine’s bid to join the UN were doing.

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• Chomsky: Saudi Arabia is the “Center of Radical Islamic Extremism” Now Spreading Among Sunni Muslims
• Noam Chomsky – Hatred Against Muslims and Arabs

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BREAKING: US says Israel may have used its weapons in breach of international law in Gaza | BBC News

BBC News – May 10, 2024

The US government has said Israel may have used American-supplied weapons in breach of international humanitarian law in its war in Gaza.

The State Department says it is “reasonable to assess” that US-supplied arms were used in ways “inconsistent” with Israel’s obligations.

The report, ordered by the White House, was submitted to Congress on Friday. It says the US government doesn’t have “complete information” to verify its assessment.

However it says that given Israel’s significant reliance on US-made weapons “it is reasonable to assess” that they had been used since October 7 “in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm”.

Jane Hill presents News at Ten reporting by Tom Bateman in Washington.

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• Chomsky: Saudi Arabia is the “Center of Radical Islamic Extremism” Now Spreading Among Sunni Muslims
• Noam Chomsky – Hatred Against Muslims and Arabs

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EAT Weekly Podcast Restoration Ag with Mark Shepard – Part 18

EAT Webinar – May 10, 2024

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Time to Wake Up 292: The Looming Economic Catastrophe if Climate Change Left Unchecked

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse May 8, 2024

May 8 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers his 292nd speech urging his colleagues to wake up to the threat of climate change. Whitehouse highlights multiple reports predicting a massive systemic shock to the economy that will be triggered by climate change unless the world undertakes major intervention to lower emissions. Assessments from the Potsdam Institute, The Economist, and Deloitte now predict climate-related damages will reach tens of trillions of dollars by 2050.

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Fernando Lecture 2024

OxfordSmithSchool – May 9, 2024

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AI and Climate Change: Fernando Lecture 2024

AI will accelerate innovation in clean energy systems and environmental monitoring and protection. It will thus make for a faster energy transition and help preserve biodiversity. But AI and climate change are also prompting domestic and international political changes that could slow the energy transition in this critical decade. Moreover, both AI and the climate are evolving very fast. By the time the world has net zero in sight, we will not only have disrupted the climate and nature, but we may have among us an abundance of human-level or super-intelligent datacenters. This abundance may usher in an era of economic plenty that makes it easier to deal with climate disruption, or it could generate more disruption by increasing inequality, reducing social cohesion, and possibly limiting human development. Humanity has set itself an epoch-defining challenge to rise to. Howard Covington will try to put into context some of the themes around AI and climate change that will shape our immediate future.

Howard Covington

Howard is a Cambridge graduate in physics and maths. He has been a director of SG Warburg, European chief executive of Wasserstein Perella, a co-founder and chief executive of New Star Asset Management, a trustee of the Science Museum, chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, founding chair of The Alan Turing Institute, chair of the Scotia Group, chair of ClientEarth, and an advisory board member of the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Howard is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and an honorary fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute and The Alan Turing Institute.

Adrian Fernando

The annual Fernando Lecture is held in memory of Adrian Fernando, COO of EcoSecurities Group, a company conceived to tackle climate change by using market mechanisms to properly price the environment. The series fosters discussion of the role of business & economics in solving the world’s environmental challenges.

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Kenyans cope with deadly floods, brace for more rain

Voice of America – May 9, 2024

With the number of deaths nearing 240 and about 235,000 people displaced, Kenyans are mourning their lost ones and trying to rebuild after weeks of heavy rains that resulted in deadly floods and landslides. VOA Nairobi Bureau chief Mariama Diallo has this report. VOA footage by Amos Wangwa. » Subscribe to VOA News: https://bit.ly/3KIPysi » Watch more VOA News video: / voanews

Global Business: Global plastics treaty hammers out pollution future

CGTN America – May 9, 2024

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CGTN’s Sean Callebs speaks with Dr. Michael Shank, Director of Engagement for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development at NYU. He shares progress made in a global plastics treaty and its global impact. #bizshow #globalbusiness #plastics #pollution

Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past?

Oxford Martin School 22 hours ago

Patricia Clavin’s research explores how economic and social issues took on as much importance as familiar concerns of border protection and weapons’ control in European and global order. Patricia holds the statutory chair in Modern History in the History Faculty, and is a Professorial Fellow at Worcester College.

In 2015 she was awarded both the British Academy Medal which ‘recognizes outstanding achievement that has transformed the field of study in any of the disciplines supported by the Academy’ for her work on international institutions, and Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship to research human security.

She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is an Associated Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, and a member of the ‘Fate of Nations’ group on global commodities at NTNU. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Past & Present.

Over the past few decades historians have investigated paleoclimate data seeking answers to long-standing questions in the premodern world that may be linked to climate variability.

At the same time, scientists have sought to find in historical knowledge keys to better understand the impact of climate on societies. Have these collaborations enhanced our understanding of climate’s role in shaping the human past?

In this talk, Professor Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies in Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, will examine the results yielded by interdisciplinary research on climate and history, and the issues they raise in terms of methodology, theoretical assumptions, and the general goals of a climatic “turn” in historical research.

This was a joint event with the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders, the Oxford Centre for European History and the Oxford Centre for Global History.

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