Archive for July 16th, 2025

16/07/2025

First Person: How Many More Children Must Die before the World Acts?

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The ongoing 21-month-long war in Gaza has seen more than 58,000 killed and 100,000 wounded as Israeli attacks continue amid rising numbers of child deaths from malnutrition.
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Salam, six months old, is screened for malnutrition at an UNRWA medical point in Gaza City.
© UNRWA/Hussein Owda | Salam, six months old, is screened for malnutrition at an UNRWA medical point in Gaza City.

In recent weeks, UN agencies have recorded nearly 900 deaths of desperate and hungry Gazans as they try to collect food – with most linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

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16/07/2025

Facts and Myths about Nuclear Materials Trafficking

A Q&A with Robert Kelley, a Distinguished Associate Fellow at SIPRI.

Yellowcake packed in special, tightly sealed steel drums similar in size to oil barrels. Photo: Dean Calma / IAEA
Yellowcake packed in special, tightly sealed steel drums similar in size to oil barrels. Photo: Dean Calma / IAEA
 

In January this year, a nuclear trafficking case made the international news headlines. The United States Department of Justice announced that Takeshi Ebisawa, an alleged Japanese gangster, had pleaded guilty to charges of major narcotics trafficking as well as conspiring to traffic nuclear materials.