10 October, 2023 - Sight Magazine

Russia fails to return to UN rights body after losing vote

The empty seat for the representative of Russia is pictured during the Human Rights Council special session on the human rights situation in Ukraine, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on 12th May, 2022

Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Russia failed in its bid to return to the United Nations’ top human rights body on Tuesday, with rivals winning considerably more votes at the General Assembly in an election seen as a key test of Western efforts to keep Moscow isolated. In the secret ballot, Russia won 83 votes versus 160 for […]

Postcards: Russian and Iranian emigres find haven in old Armenian factory

Residents of the Abastan creative space play backgammon in the kitchen, in the town of Tumanyan, Armenia, on 1st September, 2023

ROMAN CHURIKOV, of Reuters, reports from the Abastan project…

Guatemala’s Arevalo says state using violence to counter protests, warns of possible ‘siege’

A burning barricade is pictured as demonstrators block an avenue as part of a national strike to demand the resignation of authorities from the attorney general's office, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on 10th October, 2023.

Guatemala City, GuatemalaReuters Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo said on Monday the government is using violence to counter protests and create tension which could be used as an excuse for declaring a state of “siege,” even as the government announced tighter measures. Ongoing protests entered their eighth straight day on Monday, with Guatemalans taking to the […]

Israeli woman has “no tears left” after family missing, brother abducted while in Thailand, distraught parents of seized Thai plead for help

Thawatchai and Thongkoon On-kaew, parents of Natthaporn, who was working in Israel and has been abducted in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, hold up his pictures during an interview with Reuters at their house in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, on 10th October, 2023

Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters A 21-year-old Israeli woman said she was in despair and had “no tears left” after her father, sister, grandmother and cousin went missing on Saturday after Hamas militants attacked their kibbutz and video emerged showing her 12-year-old brother being taken by gunmen. Thawatchai and Thongkoon On-kaew, parents of Natthaporn, who was working […]

Pressure on Gaza border alarms Egypt as strikes close crossing

Palestinians walk among the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 9th October, 2023.

Cairo, Egypt/GazaReuters Egypt is moving to prevent a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula, as Israeli bombardment halted crossings at the main exit point from the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday, Gaza officials and Egyptian security sources said. Israel’s assault on Gaza has caused alarm in Egypt, which has urged Israel to […]

UN aid chief calls for immediate release of hostages in Israel-Hamas war

Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 25th January, 2023

Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The head of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency on Tuesday called for the immediate release of all people who have been taken hostage in the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants. Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kabul, Afghanistan, […]

“An act of sheer evil”: Biden pledges support for Israel, American Jews in speech

US President Joe Biden lholds a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly in New York City, US, on 20th September, 2023.

Washington DC, US Reuters President Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced Hamas, calling the surprise attack on Israel launched by the Palestinian militant group “an act of sheer evil,” and stressed US support for Israel as it mourns the killing of more than 1,000 people, including at least 14 Americans. The President also voiced concern for […]

Israel pulverises Gaza after Hamas attack as it collects its dead

A view shows smoke near houses and buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza City, on 10th October, 2023

Updated: 7:10am, 11th October (AEDT)Jerusalem/GazaReuters Israeli air strikes hammered Gaza on Tuesday, razing entire districts and filling morgues with dead Palestinians as Israel took revenge for the Hamas assaults that have triggered some of the worst blood-letting in 75 years of conflict. Across the barrier wall enclosing the coastal enclave, Israeli soldiers collected the last […]

Women, children among 29 killed as artillery hits Myanmar refugee camp – media, sources

Reuters An artillery strike that hit a refugee camp near Myanmar’s border with China has killed at least 29 people, including women and children, media and sources said on Tuesday, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the return of military rule. The shelling took place close to midnight on Monday in Kachin […]

Aboriginal elders suspend Rio Tinto site survey over heritage concerns

A combination image shows the Nammuldi rock shelter before and after a mine blast by Rio Tinto in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, on 6th August, 2023

Updated: 5:20pm (AEST)Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Aboriginal elders have walked off a heritage survey on a Rio Tinto iron ore project in Western Australia over concerns the global miner has played down the harm it caused them after blasting impacted an Indigenous rock shelter in August. Rio Tinto conducted a visit to the Nammuldi site last weekend […]

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