Africa: With Millions of Children’s Lives on the Line, Bill Gates Says Humanity Is at a Crossroads

Africa: With Millions of Children’s Lives on the Line, Bill Gates Says Humanity Is at a Crossroads

At 2025 Goalkeepers event, Gates lays out roadmap for saving millions more children’s lives by 2045 if governments stretch every dollar and scale a pipeline of affordable, lifesaving innovations Announces new pledge to the Global Fund 2026-2028 replenishment to prevent deaths from AIDS, TB, and malaria Honors President of the Government of Spain with 2025…

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Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged Saturday outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center. Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. Highway 41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as Tamiami…

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Africa: Quarter-Final Dreams On the Line As CHAN 2024 Group Stage Reaches Climax

Africa: Development Is ‘The First Line of Defense Against Conflict,’ Guterres Tells Security Council

Of the 700 million people worldwide living in extreme poverty, 40 per cent live in conflict-affected or fragile settings and this is on track to worsen, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday. Ambassadors met to debate how poverty, inequality, and underdevelopment are fuelling conflict and instability, at a time when hostilities…

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Thousands attend ‘red line’ protest in The Hague against Israel’s Gaza war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Thousands attend ‘red line’ protest in The Hague against Israel’s Gaza war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

According to Oxfam, nearly 150,000 people in the Netherlands called for the government to do more against the war in Gaza. Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered in the Netherlands to oppose Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and to call on the government to take a stronger stance, as nearly 55,300 Palestinians have now…

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