Wednesday, November 20, 2024

#health - What experts say about who has the world's best health-care system | Opinion: Washington Post

17 June 2021

The U.S. health-care system is broken, but do other countries have it better? Seven leading health economists and public policy experts reflect on one of the hardest questions facing them — and us — today.

#investment #finance - Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever silenced it over Gaza stance | REUTERS

14 November 2024

In a latest sign of the long-simmering tensions between Ben & Jerry's and Unilever, the ice-cream maker has filed a lawsuit saying the parent company silenced its attempts to express support for Palestinian refugees.

#benjerrys #unilever #gaza #israelgazawar #middleeast #News #Reuters #Newsfeed

#Ukraine - First-Ever ATACMS Strike in Russia, Explained | WSJ

19 November 2024

Ukraine fired long-range U.S. missiles inside Russia for the first time despite Moscow’s threats of retaliation. The attack hit an ammunition storage facility near the Russian city of Karachev and is the first such assault to use long-range, NATO-made arms. WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald explains why the Kremlin sees this as a major escalation.

#Ukraine #Russia #WSJ

#MiddleEast - How Israel Won the West | The Big Picture

25 October 2024

The Big Picture: How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel and its ensuing occupation of the Palestinian territory.

Along the way, what is revealed is a process of transformation, of how Jews went from being despised by early Christians as "Christ killers" – seeding a vile anti-Judaism that would mutate into anti-Semitism – to being considered part of the white Western world, sharing a common Judeo-Christian heritage.

#israel #aljazeeraenglish #documentary

Ukraine-Russia War: 'We're Prepared for Any Negotiations,' Ambassador Says: Bloomberg Television

20 November 2024

Vsevolod Chentsov, Ukraine's ambassador to the European Union, comments on the possibility of negotiating a peace deal with Russia.

Speaking to Bloomberg's Kriti Gupta in Brussels, he also discusses Ukraine's use of long-range US-made missiles and whether European nations, including Germany, will allow use of similar weapons.

Tory frontbencher 'would support' allowing Ukraine's use of Storm Shadow missiles

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

#F1 - LATEST F1 NEWS | Carlos Sainz, Ugo Ugochukwu, Niels Wittich, Dan Fallows, Monaco, and more: The Inside Line

19 November 2024

- Sainz to test for Williams - Ugochukwu dominates Macau - F1 race director exits FIA - Fallows cut from TD role - Monaco gets deal extension - F1 set for 2025 season launch - Maffei to step down from role - Alonso will support protégé - Barrichello rates F1 2024 - RB takes on stock cars

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#Ukraine - 'Frozen trenches, burning steppes' - Ukraine marks 1,000 days of war • FRANCE 24 English

19 November 2024

Ukraine marked 1,000 days on Tuesday since Russia's full-scale invasion, with weary troops battling on numerous fronts, Kyiv besieged by drone and missile strikes, and officials preparing for Donald Trump to reclaim the White House in January.

Details by Selina Sykes.

#Ukraine #war #Russia

The War in Donbass (also known as the War in Ukraine or War in Eastern Ukraine ) is an ongoing armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, together commonly called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government Prior to a change of the top leadership in August, the separatists were largely led by Russian citizens . Russian paramilitaries are reported to make up from 15% to 80% of the combatants .
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