03/09/2018
In truth, these women embody the remarkable spirit and courage of every Palestinian woman living under Israeli Occupation and siege in the West Bank and Gaza.
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28 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Hanan al-Khoudari resorted to Facebook in a cry for help when Israeli authorities rejected her request to accompany her three-year-old son, Louay, to his chemotherapy treatment in East Jerusalem.
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07/08/2018
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today.
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The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT.
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It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.
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04/08/2018
The PT said it will formalize Saturday at its National Convention the presidential candidacy of former leftist president Lula.
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4 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s Workers’Party (PT) presented former
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-point government program for re-election as the party also said it will formalize Saturday
[4 August 2018] at its National Convention, in the city of Sao Paulo the presidential candidacy of the former leftist president, who has been unjustly imprisoned since April 7.
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04/08/2018
3 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — “I’m totally freaked out by what’s happening, especially here in Rio,” said 40-year-old soap opera star and father of three, Thiago Lacerda.
In recent years, Brazil’s wealthy along with its highly-educated University graduates, doctors, lawyers, even TV and film stars, have been fleeing the South American country to places such as Portugal, Miami and Orlando (in United States) in search of stability as the poor continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing political and economic crisis.
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04/08/2018
Protecting vulnerable people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the latest Ebola Virus outbreak is going to be “very, very complex”, given the huge logistical challenges and ongoing conflict there, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 August 2018 said.
WHO | WHO team with the help of local residents hack their way through the Equatorial forest to bring Ebola vaccine to remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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“We know for example that there have been around 20 deaths,” Dr. Peter Salama, Deputy Director General of Emergency Preparedness and Response, told journalists in Geneva.
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04/08/2018
It is partly because the mainstream Western media persists with its hysteria on Trump’s failure to stand up to Putin on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Election that other aspects of the meeting between the two men in Helsinki have yet to come to the fore. One of them is about the position that the two adopted on Israel.

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Some sections of the Zionist-linked media in particular are suggesting that as a result of the Helsinki Summit, Israel has now become “a joint American-Russian protectorate”.
The media conference that Trump and Putin addressed, according to these sources, underscored this. There is absolutely no truth to this claim.
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04/08/2018
3 August 2018 (UN Women)* – What does zero-tolerance to sexual harassment look like? Feminists, gender experts and UN officials came together to discuss promising practices to curb sexual harassment and assault in a UN Women-organized “Feminist Think Space” from 30 to 31 July in New York.
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04/08/2018
ILO chief, Guy Ryder, highlights the major contribution BRICS countries can make to social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.
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