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Today a week-long meeting by officials including the director-general of the World Health Organisation and the director of the Pan American Health Organisation has ended. They met with top Brazilian officials, including the minister of health.…
India: new partnership to catch traffickers
04 Mar 2016
A US anti-trafficking organisation, in partnership with a Nepalese NGO, has just completed a first-of-its-kind raid and arrest of two major traffickers. For the first time, the Indian Police Special Task force partnered with US and…
USA: Trump and Israel
04 Mar 2016
Following Donald Trump’s ‘Super Tuesday’ win of eight US states in the primary contests, the question of what a Trump presidency would mean for Israel is being discussed. He told CNN, ‘As president there is nothing…
New mental trauma service
26 Feb 2016
Funding for a new mental trauma service for Northern Ireland has been announced by health minister Simon Hamilton. He said, ‘I am pleased to report that positive progress is being made. The final model will be…
IS frees 40 Assyrian Christians
26 Feb 2016
Forty kidnapped Assyrian believers have been released by IS. They were among the 230 taken a year ago. Millions of dollars were paid in ransom. The captives were released and sent to the town of Tal…
France: anti-Semitic terror
26 Feb 2016
‘I had to cover my kippah with a cap to be safe in public,’ said Lev, a young Jew from Paris, ‘and I worried that someone would kill my daughter at her school.’ Lev’s family are…