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Belgrade, Serbia mdash; Serbians have handed over more than 3,000 illegally-owned weapons and weapons parts in just two days of a mass gun amnesty announced as part of a crackdown on firearm ownership in the wake of two deadly mass shootings. A total of 17 people were killed in the attacks last week, including one at a school, which have brought huge pressure on President Aleksandar Vucic s administration.Vuvic himself announced the progress of the amnesty campaign on Wednesday, which police had said would apply to guns, grenades, ammunition and other weapons.Shootings bring grief, and anger overThousands marched in silence earlier this week in a major outpouring of grief and anger against the populist government and how it reacted after the two mass shootings, in which many of the victims were children. A woman holds a banner with writing reading Stop violence during a march against gun violence in Belgrade, Serbia, May 8, 2023, following two mass-shootings. adidas samba Darko Vojinovic/AP nike air max The gatherings in Belgrade and the northern city of Novi Sad were dubbed Serbia against violence. They were called by opposition nike dunk low parties, which demanded the resignations of government ministers and the withdrawal of licenses to the state-controlled mainstream media that promote violence and often host convicted war criminals and crime figures on their programs. After the protest officially en Tyrd Turks Battle Kurds In Iraq
The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis and avert social unrest on an unprecedented scale, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. The first and immediate priority that we all agree is that we must feed the hungry, Ban said after a meeting with U.N. agency heads and other top officials.Ban, who will lead the task force, said he agreed with U.N. agency chiefs on a series of measures for the medium and long term, with the first priority being to meet the US$755 million euro483 mill stanley cup ion shortfall in funding for the World Food Program. Without full funding of these emergency requirements we risk again the specter of widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale, he told reporters in the Swiss capital, Bern, where the U.N. agency chiefs have been meeting. We anticipate that additional funding will be required, he said. Global food prices, stoked by rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather and increased demand from India and China have sparked sometimes violent protests this year in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.Ban said also urgent is the need to ensure food for tomorrow by supporting farmers in poorer countries.The effort needs to focus on Africa, which could double food production over a very few years, Ban said later in a stanley canada speech at the U.N. s European headquarters in Geneva.It will cost a relatively modest US$8 to US$10 billion stanley polska annually, he said. The fact is that Africa is anythi
Snmb Australia reverses previous government s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel s capital
VIENNA -- Iran and six world powersended the opening round of nuclear talkson an upbeat note Thursday, with both sides saying they had agreed on a planfor further negotiations meant to produce a comprehensive deal to set limits onTehran s nuclear ambitions.In a joint statement, they said thenext round of negoti crocs winterstiefel ations would begin in Vienna on March 17, continuing aprocess likely to take at least six months and probably longer.Expectations had been modest as the talks started Tuesday, and the upbeat tone o adidas originals na framework for future talks appearedaimed in part to encourage skeptics inside and outside Iran that thenegotiations had a chance to succeed despite huge gaps between the Iranians an air force one dthe six powers.The six want Tehran to agree tosignificant cuts in its nuclear program to reduce concerns it could be turnedquickly to weapons use.Iran opposes cuts, saying its programis not aimed at building weapons. The U.S. and its partners say that Iran mustcome to an agreement if it wants a full end to sanctions crippling its economy. We have ... identified all ofthe issues we need to address for a comprehensive and final agreement, said Catherine Ashton, the EU s top diplomat who convened the talks between Iran and the six powers - theUnited States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. It won t be easy, but we vegotten off to a good start, she said in a statement read later in Farsiby Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.A Western diplomat said Ashton wouldvisit Teh Lqnj EU Diplomats pressure Syria to end violence
Zimbabwe police planned to question senior opposition officials on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, a day after their leader was charged with treason, a party spokesman said.Mugabe was preparing to take his re-election fight to urban areas amid growing international condemnation of his government s pressure on Movement for Democratic Change chief Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of presidential polls set for March 9-10.The United States and Britain accused Mugabe of trying to fix stanley cup the election after Tsvangirai, who presents the greatest threat to Mugabe s 22 years in power, was charge stanley mugs d with treason on Monday in connection with the alleged assassination plot.Police did not try to detain him and Tsvangirai, who denies the charge, said he did not think the government would try to stop him from contesting the election.MDC spokesman Percy Makombe said on Tues stanley mugs day police had asked the party s secretary-general, Welshman Ncube, and member of parliament Renson Gasela to report to the Criminal Investigations Department. They will be going to the CID as asked, Makombe said.The official Herald newspaper reported that Mugabe was expected to hold rallies in two Harare townships on Tuesday.The head of a 14-nation Southern African Development Community parliamentary observer group, Duke Lefhoko, said he was worried about the safety of observers and wanted talks with Mugabe s government to encourage the police to protect them.Election observers have been sto
Belgrade, Serbia mdash; Serbians have handed over more than 3,000 illegally-owned weapons and weapons parts in just two days of a mass gun amnesty announced as part of a crackdown on firearm ownership in the wake of two deadly mass shootings. A total of 17 people were killed in the attacks last week, including one at a school, which have brought huge pressure on President Aleksandar Vucic s administration.Vuvic himself announced the progress of the amnesty campaign on Wednesday, which police had said would apply to guns, grenades, ammunition and other weapons.Shootings bring grief, and anger overThousands marched in silence earlier this week in a major outpouring of grief and anger against the populist government and how it reacted after the two mass shootings, in which many of the victims were children. A woman holds a banner with writing reading Stop violence during a march against gun violence in Belgrade, Serbia, May 8, 2023, following two mass-shootings. adidas samba Darko Vojinovic/AP nike air max The gatherings in Belgrade and the northern city of Novi Sad were dubbed Serbia against violence. They were called by opposition nike dunk low parties, which demanded the resignations of government ministers and the withdrawal of licenses to the state-controlled mainstream media that promote violence and often host convicted war criminals and crime figures on their programs. After the protest officially en Tyrd Turks Battle Kurds In Iraq
The U.N. will set up a top-level task force to tackle the global food crisis and avert social unrest on an unprecedented scale, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. The first and immediate priority that we all agree is that we must feed the hungry, Ban said after a meeting with U.N. agency heads and other top officials.Ban, who will lead the task force, said he agreed with U.N. agency chiefs on a series of measures for the medium and long term, with the first priority being to meet the US$755 million euro483 mill stanley cup ion shortfall in funding for the World Food Program. Without full funding of these emergency requirements we risk again the specter of widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale, he told reporters in the Swiss capital, Bern, where the U.N. agency chiefs have been meeting. We anticipate that additional funding will be required, he said. Global food prices, stoked by rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather and increased demand from India and China have sparked sometimes violent protests this year in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.Ban said also urgent is the need to ensure food for tomorrow by supporting farmers in poorer countries.The effort needs to focus on Africa, which could double food production over a very few years, Ban said later in a stanley canada speech at the U.N. s European headquarters in Geneva.It will cost a relatively modest US$8 to US$10 billion stanley polska annually, he said. The fact is that Africa is anythi
Snmb Australia reverses previous government s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel s capital
VIENNA -- Iran and six world powersended the opening round of nuclear talkson an upbeat note Thursday, with both sides saying they had agreed on a planfor further negotiations meant to produce a comprehensive deal to set limits onTehran s nuclear ambitions.In a joint statement, they said thenext round of negoti crocs winterstiefel ations would begin in Vienna on March 17, continuing aprocess likely to take at least six months and probably longer.Expectations had been modest as the talks started Tuesday, and the upbeat tone o adidas originals na framework for future talks appearedaimed in part to encourage skeptics inside and outside Iran that thenegotiations had a chance to succeed despite huge gaps between the Iranians an air force one dthe six powers.The six want Tehran to agree tosignificant cuts in its nuclear program to reduce concerns it could be turnedquickly to weapons use.Iran opposes cuts, saying its programis not aimed at building weapons. The U.S. and its partners say that Iran mustcome to an agreement if it wants a full end to sanctions crippling its economy. We have ... identified all ofthe issues we need to address for a comprehensive and final agreement, said Catherine Ashton, the EU s top diplomat who convened the talks between Iran and the six powers - theUnited States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. It won t be easy, but we vegotten off to a good start, she said in a statement read later in Farsiby Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.A Western diplomat said Ashton wouldvisit Teh Lqnj EU Diplomats pressure Syria to end violence
Zimbabwe police planned to question senior opposition officials on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, a day after their leader was charged with treason, a party spokesman said.Mugabe was preparing to take his re-election fight to urban areas amid growing international condemnation of his government s pressure on Movement for Democratic Change chief Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of presidential polls set for March 9-10.The United States and Britain accused Mugabe of trying to fix stanley cup the election after Tsvangirai, who presents the greatest threat to Mugabe s 22 years in power, was charge stanley mugs d with treason on Monday in connection with the alleged assassination plot.Police did not try to detain him and Tsvangirai, who denies the charge, said he did not think the government would try to stop him from contesting the election.MDC spokesman Percy Makombe said on Tues stanley mugs day police had asked the party s secretary-general, Welshman Ncube, and member of parliament Renson Gasela to report to the Criminal Investigations Department. They will be going to the CID as asked, Makombe said.The official Herald newspaper reported that Mugabe was expected to hold rallies in two Harare townships on Tuesday.The head of a 14-nation Southern African Development Community parliamentary observer group, Duke Lefhoko, said he was worried about the safety of observers and wanted talks with Mugabe s government to encourage the police to protect them.Election observers have been sto
