BRUSSELS: The European Union welcomes the resolution on Haiti adopted by the United Nations Security Council, which provides a framework for measures against gang leaders in Haiti and their financiers, who are directly or indirectly responsible for the current security and humanitarian crisis in the country. 

The sanctions regime established by the UN will be swiftly transposed into EU law.

The EU is extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Haiti, which has now reached unsustainable levels, with lack of fuel, medicines, food and water.

As a consequence, public institutions, schools and hospitals become dysfunctional, and cases of cholera are increasing in Port-au-Prince and other provinces.

The EU is a longstanding partner of Haiti and it remains engaged in supporting Haiti’s stabilisation, including by contributing to the strengthening the National Police of Haiti.

TOKYO, 26 October 2022, (TON): US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said “the United States will make full use of its military capabilities, including nuclear, conventional and missile defense, to defend its allies Japan and South Korea.”

Sherman said North Korea’s repeated firings of ballistic missiles and artillery in recent weeks were provocative military actions.

North Korea has described them as practice runs for the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

Sherman said “this is deeply irresponsible, dangerous, and destabilizing.”

It will be second in-person meeting of the three officials since conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in May, signaling an improvement in difficult ties between Japan and South Korea.

BRUSSELS: The European Union welcomes the resolution on Haiti adopted by the United Nations Security Council, which provides a framework for measures against gang leaders in Haiti and their financiers, who are directly or indirectly responsible for the current security and humanitarian crisis in the country. 

The sanctions regime established by the UN will be swiftly transposed into EU law.

The EU is extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Haiti, which has now reached unsustainable levels, with lack of fuel, medicines, food and water.

As a consequence, public institutions, schools and hospitals become dysfunctional, and cases of cholera are increasing in Port-au-Prince and other provinces.

The EU is a longstanding partner of Haiti and it remains engaged in supporting Haiti’s stabilisation, including by contributing to the strengthening the National Police of Haiti.

GHAZA, 26 October 2022, (TON): Six Palestinians were killed and 20 injured in Israeli predawn raids in the occupied West Bank as the army targeted an emerging group, and thousands later massed for the funerals of the alleged militants.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said “five people were killed in Nablus in the northern West Bank, where Israel confirmed an overnight operation targeted the Lions’ Den, a new group it blames for multiple recent attacks.”

Another Palestinian died from a gunshot wound to the chest during overnight clashes with Israeli forces in Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah.

The Israel Defense Forces stormed Nablus an hour after midnight and targeted an apartment in the Kasbah neighborhood.

AMMAN: Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has condemned the ongoing Israeli military incursions into Palestinian towns, including Tuesday’s dawn attacks in Nablus and Ramallah.

Jordan News Agency, or Petra, cited a statement in which the ministry warned that the military escalation would lead to a new spiral of violence for which everyone will pay a price.

The ministry said that the Israeli raids into Palestinian cities and measures to perpetuate the occupation amid a persistent stalemate in the peace process would lead to a dangerous escalation, for which Israel would be responsible, threatening regional peace and stability, Petra reported.

The ministry also stressed it was necessary for Israel to halt all military operations against Palestinians and all illegal measures that undermine the two-state solution and chances for peace.

NEW YORK, 26 October 2022, (TON): Members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday expressed dismay at the ongoing hostilities in northwestern Syria that in the past two months alone have caused the deaths of more than 90 civilians, including 35 children.

According to the latest UN report “this, a cholera outbreak across all of the country’s governorates, and rising fuel prices that are forcing families to choose between keeping warm or eating have further increased the humanitarian needs in the war-ravaged country to the point where they have reached their highest-ever levels.”

As Syrians once again prepare for a bitterly cold winter, 6 million people need assistance to survive, a figure that has grown by 30 percent since last year.

LONDON: Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year and now must turn his attention to taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions of Britons struggling to afford food and energy bills.

Sunak, the UK’s first leader of color, met at Buckingham Palace with King Charles III, who had just accepted the resignation of Liz Truss. In Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the monarch plays a ceremonial role in appointing government leaders.

Sunak at 42 the youngest British leader in more than 200 years is expected to immediately begin appointing a Cabinet and getting to grips with an economy sliding toward recession.

The third Conservative prime minister this year, he will also try to unite a governing party that is riven with divisions.

DUBAI, 26 October 2022, (TON): Russia’s warning that Ukraine was readying to use a “dirty bomb” fits Moscow’s track record of deception, when it “accuses others for what they intend to do themselves.”

Jens Stoltenberg said “Russia continues to accuse falsely Ukraine for preparing and making a dirty bomb that is absurd, because why should Ukraine use a dirty bomb on the territories they want to liberate?”

Western leaders have rejected Moscow’s claim that Ukraine is planning to set off a crude device that could spread nuclear, chemical or biological materials over a wide area.

They fear that the Kremlin, which has faced major setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine as NATO countries back Kyiv with weapons and funds, is preparing a false flag operation where it launches such am attack and blames it on Ukraine.

KYIV, 26 October 2022, (TON): A Ukrainian minister has said “Refugees who fled in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should stay abroad this winter due to blackouts created by Moscow’s bombardment of critical energy infrastructure.”

In an interview broadcast on Ukrainian national television, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told Ukrainians currently sheltering abroad that they should wait until spring before returning to Ukraine.

She said “I wanted to ask (them) not to return. We need to survive the winter.”

Since Oct. 10, Russia has launched waves of missile and drone strikes targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Kyiv says they have damaged up to 40 percent of the power system.

RIYADH, 26 October 2022, (TON): Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah received Ambassador of Ukraine to Saudi Arabia Anatolii Petrenko in Riyadh

During the meeting, they discussed issues of common interest related to humanitarian and relief affairs.

The ambassador extended his sincere thanks for the Saudi leadership’s decision to offer an additional humanitarian aid package for Ukraine in the amount of $400 million, which contributed to alleviating the suffering of Ukrainian citizens in light of the crisis the country is going through.