Attracted to higher yields in the US, investors withdrew their funds from developing country financial assets, raising yield costs and depreciating currencies. Debt repayment costs soared.
by Declassified UK showing the role played by the British base at RAF Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. The British have been running surveillance flights over Gaza since early December 2023, supposedly to facilitate the rescue of Israeli captives.The support of governments such as the United States, United Kingdom and Germany has provided Israel the means to continue its genocide.
“When you start acting in a conflict to a level that the people on the ground who are doing the fighting are using your information as they fight”, you may become “a party to the conflict”, Van Esveld explained.Israel did not provide answers to any of the allegations put to it by Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit.The UK government stated: "The UK is not a participant in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. As a matter of principle, we only provide intelligence to our allies where we are satisfied that it will be used in accordance with International Humanitarian Law. Only information relating to hostage rescue is passed to the Israeli authorities."
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit approached everyone else who featured in the documentary but received no response.Shortages and security worsen in Burundi’s overcrowded camps for people fleeing DRC war.
Claude fears he may soon die – either from starvation or violence – as he waits at a food distribution tent in a refugee camp in Burundi.
He is among thousands of Congolese refugees trapped between a brutal conflict across the border and severe reductions in international food assistance.The higher regional court in the western city of Hamm on Wednesday blocked the landmark complaint brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, 44, who argued that RWE’s historical emissions meant it was responsible for the higher flood risk caused by the melting of the Andean glaciers his hometown was facing.
But the judge in the case ruled that companies “may be obligated to take preventive measures” to counter their emissions, according to a statement from the court.“If the polluter definitively refuses to do so, it could be determined, even before actual costs are incurred, that the polluter must bear the costs in proportion to their share of the emissions,” the court concluded.
The ruling supported arguments made by Saul Luciano Lliuya, who claimed that RWE should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown near the city of Huaraz in northern Peru from a lake glacier swollen by melting snow and ice.RWE has never operated in Peru, but the 44-year-old farmer argued that, as one of the world’s top emitters of carbon dioxide, the firm was partly responsible for the flood risk.