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The staff at the hospital have been working around the clock since the fighting started in Sudan. “The biggest challenge facing medical staff trying to reach hospitals is the lack of safe passages. One video shows a doctor stitching a wound cutting through the calf of a woman. In another, the medical staff are slumped over a patient with a gaping wound in the upper thigh. “Hospitals of Sudan are under fire, medical supplies have almost run out, medical staff is exhausted.

☆ US, Britain walk out at UN on Russian wanted for war crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Michelle Nichols | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Britain and the United States blocked the informal meeting on Ukraine, convened by Russia to focus on "evacuating children from conflict zones," from being webcast by the United Nations. The diplomats left the U.N. conference room where the discussion was being held as Russian Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova spoke. Moscow has not concealed a program under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia but presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the war zone. During her statement Lvova-Belova showed video of Ukrainian children in Russia, then said: "I want to stress that unlike the Ukrainian side, we don't use children for propaganda." However, last month China blocked the U.N. webcast of a U.S.-convened informal Security Council meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea.

☆ Synopsys spreads AI throughout its chip design tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Synopsys first released an AI tool for one part of the chip design process three years ago, and with customers like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and ST Microelectronics (STM.DE) using the system. The tools Synopsys released Wednesday at its annual user conference in Santa Clara, California, spread much further across the chip design process. Synopsys is in a race with Cadence Design Systems (CDNS.O), its largest competitor, to add AI to chip design software. While some of the Synopsys tools released Wednesday are catching up to Cadence, Karl Freund, principal analyst with Cambrian AI research, said Synopsys is ahead, with more than 100 chips by customers using its AI tools coming to market. "I think they'll probably be at 1,000 (completed chip designs) by the end of the year."

☆ Tunisian police arrest Ghazi Chaouachi, a prominent critic of president
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

TUNIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Tunisian police on Friday arrested Ghazi Chaouachi, the prominent critic of President Kais Saied, Ghazi's son said, the latest arrest targeting the president's opponents. About 20 policemen searched the house and arrested Ghazi, his son Elyess said. The arrest comes amid a crackdown on dissent this month that has targeted more than 12 people including opposition politicians, activists, protest organisers and a media figure as well as an influential business leader and two judges. Reporting by Tarek Amara Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Tunisia holds prominent critics of president in pre-trial detention, lawyers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 25 - A Tunisian anti-terrorism investigative judge decided on Saturday to hold three prominent politicians and a high-profile businessman in pre-trial detention, their defence team said, amid a continuing crackdown targeting opposition figures. The four men are the first to face a judicial hearing among over a dozen leading figures critical of President Kais Saied who have been detained this month. Late on Friday, police also detained Ghazi Chaouachi, another prominent critic of Saied, his son said. Saied has said some of those detained are behind food shortages that economists have blamed on a crisis in state finances. Police have also detained a senior figure in the powerful UGTT labour union and several members of a police union on separate charges.

☆ Beirut blast investigator puts off interrogations of top officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BEIRUT, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The judge investigating the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast said he had postponed interrogations of senior current and former officials that had been set to begin on Monday until a legal dispute over the extent of his powers can be resolved. Bitar, who denies the accusations, had set interrogation sessions for about a dozen current and former officials in February, beginning with former ministers Ghazi Zeaiter and Nouhad Machnouk on Monday. He had also set sessions for former prime minister Hassan Diab and the intelligence chief, Major General Abbas Ibrahim. Some 40 Lebanese lawmakers and groups representing judges and lawyers have called for Oueidat to reverse his decisions and allow Bitar to resume his investigation. Reporting by Timour Azhari; Editing by Mark HeinrichOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Bitar told Reuters on Wednesday that Oweidat "had no right" to file the charge or release detainees because Oueidat himself was charged over the explosion. Oweidat told Reuters he had summoned Bitar for questioning but did not say whether he had charged him. Oweidat had earlier recused himself from any involvement in the blast probe as Bitar had issued an arrest warrant for his brother-in-law, former public works minister Ghazi Zeaiter. "Instead of me appearing before him, he'll be appearing before me," Oweidat told Reuters by text message. He met with French investigators visiting Beirut last week as part of a French probe into the explosion, whose victims included two French nationals.

BEIRUT, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The judge probing the 2020 Beirut blast has charged Lebanon's top public prosecutor, the then-premier and other senior current and former officials in connection with the devastating explosion, judicial sources said and court summons show. He also charged Prosecutor General Ghassan Oweidat, the head of Lebanon's domestic intelligence agency Major General Abbas Ibrahim, former army commander Jean Kahwaji and other current and former security and judicial officials, court sources said. [1/2] Relatives of some of the victims of the August 2020 Beirut port blast carry their pictures and banners during a protest outside the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon September 7, 2022. The embassy on Tuesday tweeted that the United States "support and urge Lebanese authorities to complete a swift and transparent investigation" into the blast. Diab, an academic, became prime minister in January 2020 and resigned less than a week after the blast.

☆ Analysis: Iraq's mercurial Moqtada Sadr risks isolation with political retreat
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Ahmed Rasheed | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Pro-Sadr clerics, former legislators and analysts say Sadr has no clearly defined political role for the first time since 2005, leaving him at his weakest since entering Iraqi politics. Sadr officials, pro-Sadr Shi'ite clerics and religious sources in the sacred Iraqi city of Najaf told Reuters they believed Tehran was behind the pronouncement. Haeri told Sadr's followers to seek future guidance on religious matters from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a scholar who is Iran's Supreme Leader. Ghazi Faisal, chairman of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies think-tank, said Haeri gave "momentum to Iranian efforts to consolidate the powers of its allies in Iraqi politics." Human rights groups accused Sadr militiamen of kidnapping and killing Sunnis at the height of Iraq's civil war.

Whether Mozambique and its allies can stamp out the insurgency altogether is a question that has global repercussions as countries hunt for new sources of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Mozambique has huge natural gas reserves which, if managed effectively, could transform its fortunes. With already more than 100 trillion cubic feet of proven offshore natural gas reserves, one industry insider likened its future potential equal to Russia – a natural gas giant. The Mozambican forces, as had happened multiple times in smaller towns, were unable to stop them. Fighting between the terrorist group and the Mozambican army and Rwandan Security forces has left its mark on the town.

☆ Meciul Everton - Manchester City a fost amânat din cauza COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Acum, ei se pot pregăti deja pentru următoarea partidă, care însă ese programată anul viitor. Pe 3 ianuarie, Manchester City se va confrunta cu Chelsea.La rândul ei, echipa londoneză a jucat aseară cu Aston Villa într-un meci din cadrul etapei a 15-a. Formația antrenată de Frank Lampard nu a reușit să se impună, iar partida s-a încheiat la egalitate, scor 1-1. Chelsea a marcat prima în minutul 34 prin Oliver Giroud, însă nu a reușit până la urmă să-și mențină avantajul. Oaspeții au egalat în minutul 50 prin El Ghazi.Într-o altă partidă disputată aseară, Leicester City a remizat în deplasare cu Crystal Palace, scor 1-1.

Persons: Gabriel Jesus, Kyle Walker, Aston Villa, Frank Lampard, ., Oliver Giroud Organizations: Premier League, Everton, Manchester City, Manchester ., . Chelsea, Leicester City, Crystal Palace Locations: City, Liverpool, Leicester

☆ Explozia din portul din Beirut: un judecător cere declanşarea de investigaţii împotriva a trei miniştri
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-25 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Judecătorul care conduce ancheta libaneză asupra exploziei sângeroase care a avut loc la data de 4 august în portul din Beirut doreşte să fie efectuate investigaţii împotriva a trei miniştri, pentru presupusa lor responsabilitate în această catastrofă, a anunţat marţi o sursă judiciară, informează miercuri AFP și Agerpres. El a cerut de asemenea anchete asupra rolului mai multor altor persoane ce au ocupat respectivele funcţii ministeriale în cadrul a trei guverne precedente. Investigaţiile făcute deja de judecătorul Swan însuşi au generat “unele suspiciuni în ceea ce priveşte responsabilitatea acestor miniştri şi a deficienţelor lor în gestionarea prezenţei de nitrat de amoniu în port”. Explozia a sute de tone de nitrat de amoniu în portul din Beirut s-a soldat cu peste 200 de morţi şi cu mii de răniţi şi a distrus o mare parte din capitala libaneză. Guvernul libanez a demisionat după această tragedie, însă continuă să gestioneze problemele curente, în condiţiile în care un nou guvern nu a fost nici până acum constituit.

Persons: Fadi Sawan, Michel Najjar, Ghazi Wazni, Marie, Claude Najm, Swan Locations: Beirut, libaneză, Liban, străinătate, Agerpres

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