Malaria and diseases spreading fast in flood-hit Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanReuters The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan’s flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she had met during visits to flood-hit areas this week would “not make it” if more aid did not arrive. Hundreds of thousands of people […]
UN raises less than a third of $US4.27 billion sought for Yemen to avoid starvation
Reuters The United Nations on Wednesday received only $US1.3 billion in pledges towards a $US4.27 billion aid plan for war-torn Yemen where the humanitarian drive had seen funding dry up even before global attention turned to the conflict in Ukraine. “We hoped for more and it is a disappointment that we weren’t able as yet […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘MALEFICENT’ NO FAIRY TALE
MARCUS CHEONG says ‘Maleficent’ reveals Disney’s over-eagerness to turn animated classics into live action films…
Women raped by Islamic State need justice, UK ex-foreign minister says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s former foreign minister William Hague called for greater efforts to prosecute rape in conflict zones such as Myanmar, Nigeria and Iraq, six years after he launched an initiative with Hollywood’s Angelina Jolie to end the crime. Hague and Oscar-winning actress Jolie launched the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative in 2012 to stop […]