2024-03-13: News Headlines

Democracy Now! (2024-03-13). Democracy Now! 2024-03-13 Wednesday. democracynow.org Headlines for March 13, 2024; What Is Israel's Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War; Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan Are "Not Serious Responses" to Gaza Suffering; "Revolutionary Love": Michelle Alexander on Gaza, Solidarity, MLK & What Gives Her Hope; Warning to America: Hungarian Green on Authoritarianism as Trump Hosts PM Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago | Headlines for March 13, 2024; What Is Israel's Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War; Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan A…

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-03-13). Israeli artillery shells Lebanese border twown of Yarin: Al-Manar correspondent. english.almanar.com.lb

Gabisile (2024-03-13). Eliminate red tape to make it easier for African entrepreneurs to do business – Mashatile. sanews.gov.za Eliminate red tape to make it easier for African entrepreneurs to do business – Mashatile | Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called for the elimination of red tape to facilitate cross-border trade for African entrepreneurs. | "Countries on our continent typically perform poorly in various categories related to corporate performance and competitiveness due to an unfriendly environment, particularly in terms of intra-continental trade," the Deputy President said on Wednesday. | This is the reason he believes that countries should take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, whic…

krish-rad_ind (2024-03-13). Ukraine Loses Soldiers and Equipment in Failed Attempt to Cross Russia Border. orinocotribune.com

scorinoco (2024-03-13). Ukraine Loses Soldiers and Equipment in Failed Attempt to Cross Russia Border. orinocotribune.com The Russian Defense Ministry has revealed that in an attempt to cross Russian borders, the Ukrainian army lost 234 fighters and a substantial amount of military equipment, including seven tanks and three infantry fighting vehicles. | In a statement released on Tuesday, March 12, the Russian Defense Ministry said, "The enemy lost 234 militants, seven tanks, three US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and two armored personnel carriers. There were no violations of the state border," noting that the attack was confronted on all three different directions where Ukraine tried to infiltrate. | pic.twitter.com/pBm…

teleSUR (2024-03-12). Russia Thwarts Ukrainian Attacks in Koursk and Belgorod Regions. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Russian army confirmed that its forces managed to repel Ukrainian attacks with missiles and artillery against the border regions of Kursk and Belgorod. | RELATED: | "Since this morning, Tetkino village in the Glushkovsky district has been shelled. An Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group carried out a shootout and attempted to advance. But he didn't make it," Kursk Governor Roman Starovoi…

Associated Press (2024-03-13). Russia says it killed 234 fighters while thwarting incursion from Ukraine. scmp.com Ukrainian long-range drones smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia, while an armed incursion claimed by anti-Kremlin fighters unnerved a border region just days before Russia's presidential election.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2024-03-13). DR deported more than 174,000 Haitian citizens in 2023. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Mar 13 (Prensa Latina) More than 174,000 Haitians were repatriated from the Dominican Republic in 2023 for failure to comply with immigration measures, according to records from the General Directorate of Immigration.

ANIS SHIVANI (2024-03-13). The State of the Union is Warlike and Getting Worse. counterpunch.org The SOTU spectacle served its purpose. The warmongers shilling for the liberal establishment were reassured that their figurehead president was strong and vigorous, up to the challenge of fighting wars and demonizing immigrants and supporting genocide. Joe still has it in him to be the standard-bearer of the empire, the sigh of relief went up everywhere in the dinosaur media, he can take the fight to

ecns.cn (2024-03-13). Migratory birds rest at E China's nature reserve. ecns.cn Twelve dalmatian pelicans, a first-class national protected animal in China, have been spotted at the reserve during the migratory season.

Staff (2024-03-13). DWP has ADMITTED it's already stripped tens of thousands of people's benefits by forcing them onto Universal Credit. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released its latest figures regarding so-called "Universal Credit managed migration". This is where it forces people on old-style benefits like Tax Credits to move to Universal Credit. The Canary previously raised the alarm over just how many people — 24% — the DWP were denying benefits to in the process. …

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2024-03-13). Autoridades mexicanas rescatan a más de 220 migrantes. telesurtv.net El INM informó que un grupo de migrantes fue trasladado a instalaciones migratorias para avanzar en sus procesos migratorias correspondientes.

teleSUR (2024-03-12). Haiti's Number of Forcibly Displaced People on the Rise. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 362,000 people have been forcibly displaced in Haiti. | RELATED: | According to the IOM, more than half are children, and the total number has increased by 15 percent since the beginning of the year. | The international organization assures that forced displacements in Haiti worsen the humanitarian situation in the Caribbean country, where v…

unitedEditor (2024-03-13). What lies within the Tuareg potential in Libya? uwidata.com The Tuareg are an ancient Berber tribe settled throughout the Saharan regions of Libya, Algeria, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The Tuareg are believed to have migrated from modern-day Libya in the 7th century AD under pressure from Arab invaders. As nomadic pastoralists, traders and farmers, they had some resistance to recurring droughts. Due to …

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2024-03-11: News Headlines

albawaba (2024-03-11). Israel's Netzarim Corridor to divide Gaza into two parts. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – A satellite imagery analysis by CNN revealed that, as part of a security plan to control Gaza, the Israeli army is building a road, that has now reached the Mediterranean coast, to split the besieged enclave into two parts. According to a satellite image taken on March 6, the east-west road, which has been under construction for weeks, now stretches from the Gaza-Israeli border area across the entire roughly 6.5-kilometer-wide strip separating northern Gaza, including Gaza City, from the south of the enclave.According to CNN's investigation, about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the road is already in plac…

newarab (2024-03-11). Gulf state ready to fund Lebanon-Israel border deal: report. newarab.com A Gulf state has expressed readiness to financially support Lebanon's military and fund Citing unnamed diplomatic sources, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said an Arab Gulf state had expressed its willingness to finance the voluntary recruitment of 7,000 soldiers in the Lebanese army, as well as fund obse…

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-03-11). Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon: Israeli artillery shells border town of Yaroun. english.almanar.com.lb

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-03-11). Hezbollah Carries Out Major Aerial Attack on Israeli Barracks. english.almanar.com.lb In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border. Hezbollah military media issued consecutive statements to illustrate the attacks and their outcomes. The first statement mentioned that the Islamic …

Emilia Cieslak (2024-03-11). The Weekly Round-up: Trump on the ballot, government defeats in the House of Lords, and abortion a constitutional right. ukhumanrightsblog.com In UK news The government has suffered defeats in the House of Lords, as the peers voted through ten amendments to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. The amendments included: Labour's Lord Coaker, the Speaker for the Opposition, has confirmed that the House of Lords will not block the bill. Lord Coaker did …

Justin Pearson (2024-03-11). Cities Are Quietly Waging War on Marginalized Food Truck and Street Vendors. truthout.org Married business partners Theslet Benoir and Clemene Bastien immigrated from Haiti and settled in Parksley, Virginia, in 2005. They followed the law when they opened a brick-and-mortar store and expanded with the town's first food truck in June 2023. Local officials should have celebrated the couple's entrepreneurial spirit. Instead, they punished it: A Town Council member came to the restaurant… |

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