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Lula wants permanent UN Security Council seats for Africa and Latin America

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Tuesday opened the 79th United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York with a speech focused on the Security Council's shortcomings in the face of recent global events and called for a permanent seat on the body for Latin America as well as for Africa while insisting that such an omission was "an unacceptable echo of the domination practices of the colonial past." Today, only the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom are permanent members... Читать дальше...

The Wall Street Journal 

De-Fun the Police

Should saloon hours be dictated by government?

Committee to Protect Journalists 

Egypt violates own law by adding 2 years to Alaa Abdelfattah’s prison term

Washington, D.C., September 24, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abdelfattah, a prominent Egyptian-British blogger and writer, upon completion of his five-year prison sentence this Sunday, September 29. Abdelfattah was arrested on September 28, 2019, and in December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison, starting from...