2024-04-11: News Headlines

Marcy Winograd, CODEPINK. (2024-04-11). Protests At German Diplomatic Missions: Stop Arming Genocide. popularresistance.org On the first day of ICJ proceedings, April 8, 2024, in Nicaragua v. Germany, pickets and letter deliveries took place in DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Houston, Miami and Seattle. Demonstrators echoed Nicaragua's requests of the World Court to order Germany and the United States to stop supplying weapons to Israel. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the US supplies 69% of Israel's arsenal; Germany supplies 30% of the weaponry. | Benjamin Alvarez Gruber, US correspondent for Deutsche Welle (DW), state-owned German state-television, covered the story at the DC German em…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-04-11). Germany, Gaza and the World Court: Broadening the Scope of Genocide. counterpunch.org Can it get any busier? The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by applications on the subject of alleged genocide. The site of interest remains the Gaza Strip, the subject of unremitting slaughter since the October 7, 2023 cross-border attacks by Hamas against Israel. The retaliation by Israel

Phil Pasquini (2024-04-11). Consulate Rally Demands an End to German Weapons for Israel. indybay.org Members of Code Pink held a rally at the German Consulate in San Francisco calling upon Germany to desist in arming the Israeli military and to reopen humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Zoe Johnson (2024-04-11). Germany confiscates funds of Jewish people (once again). workers.org Berliner Sparkasse, a state-owned bank in Germany, has frozen the account of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East. Berliner Sparkasse Bank also demands that the anti-Zionist organization disclose a list of its members. According to Jewish Voice's social media platforms, Berliner Sparkasse froze the account on . . . |

Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears, Jeffrey Sachs (2024-04-11). Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged. counterpunch.org U.S. policymakers are still mired in imperial delusions, fueling fights to maintain and extend their hegemony in Ukraine, Palestine and even in the South China Sea, and refusing to recognize the emerging reality of a multipolar world which is expressed in so many ways economically in the rise of the BRICS countries but also simply in the refusal of other nations to go along with what the imperial hegemon expects them to do.

Nava J. Thakuria (2024-04-11). Projecting Begusarai and Guwahati as Highly Polluted Regions. pressenza.com Rapid urbanization in the last few decades has made Guwahati, the prime city of Assam, a polluted city, but can it feature on top of a list comprising the regions containing highly polluted air across the Asian region? The issue came for discussions as an air quality monitoring body (Switzerland-based IQAir) recently revealed that the virtual capital of northeast India emerged as the second highest polluted city in the continent. Many jumped into the revelation of the World Air Quality Report 2023 and started making voluminous reports in various media outlets terming the prehistoric city as an unhealthy place for…

tvbrics (2024-04-11). Exhibition of Islamic miniature and calligraphy is held in Russian region. tvbrics.com The works of three artists were exhibited in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan…

WSWS (2024-04-11). Washington threatens China over aid to Russia in Ukraine war. wsws.org US threats against China underscore that the NATO war with Russia in Ukraine is part of a global war waged by the NATO imperialist powers to assert their world hegemony.

| Name (2024-04-11). At least 4 Ukrainian journalists injured in consecutive attacks on Ukraine. kyivindependent.com

WSWS (2024-04-11). German government slashes support for children to fund its war drive. wsws.org More than one in five children in Germany are poor. Despite this, the government is sacrificing measures planned to tackle child poverty to fund its growing arms budget.

ecns.cn (2024-04-11). Sino-French satellite set for June launch date. ecns.cn A cutting-edge astronomical spacecraft jointly developed by China and France is scheduled to be deployed in orbit in June, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Innovation Academy for Microsatellites in Shanghai, which built the satellite.

| Name (2024-04-11). Russia issues arrest warrant for exiled journalist Mikhail Zygar. t.me

The Committee for the Respect of Freedoms, Human Rights in Tunisia (2024-04-11). Tunisian authorities strive to legalize racism with European blessing. cadtm.org

newarab (2024-04-11). Europe Jewish leader hits out at Ben-Gvir over antisemitism. newarab.com A senior European Jewish leader has accused extremist Israeli National Security Minister Ariel Muzicant, president of…

newarab (2024-04-11). Ireland poised to recognise independent Palestinian state. newarab.com

newarab (2024-04-11). A Turkey of an Election for Erdogan>. newarab.com The recent local elections in Turkey did not go to plan for President Erdogan. | The voters sent a clear message to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party and the strongman president, when they voted in unprecedented numbers for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). | The CHP took control of Turkey's biggest cities and also managed to make significant headway into provinces that had been traditional AKP territory. | Additionally, the AKP also lost out to the New Welfare Party (YRP), and Islamist party, who collected former AKP voters, who were angered by Erdogan's Gaza policy. | The rec…

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Nicaragua closes embassy in Berlin after suing Germany over Gaza genocide. presstv.ir Nicaragua shuts down its embassy in Germany after taking the European country to the ICJ for helping Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Iran tells Turkey Muslim countries should cut economic ties with Israel. presstv.ir Iran's Raeisi tells Turkey's Erdogan that Muslim countries need to cut their economic ties with Israel.

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Spain says Israel's 'disproportionate' attacks in Gaza threaten whole world. presstv.ir Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was speaking to the Spanish lawmakers on Wednesday.

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Time running out for Ukraine in war with Russia, US commander warns. presstv.ir "If one side can shoot and the other side can't shoot back, the side that can't shoot back loses. So the stakes are very high," General Cavoli has said.

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Zaporizhzhya a new Chernobyl? presstv.ir The risk of Zaporizhzhya becoming a new Chernobyl must be averted and a free zone around the Russian-held nuclear plant should be declared.

presstv.ir (2024-04-11). Streets in western France turned into lake after historic flood. presstv.ir Heavy rainfall causes severe flooding in a French town.

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