Day: April 21, 2024
Ukrainian president urges Senate to ratify aid package so that it can strengthen frontline with Russia
Ukraine’s president said the vote on Saturday by the US House of Representatives to pass a long-delayed $61bn military aid package demonstrated that his country would not abandoned by the west in its effort to fight the Russian invasion.
Voldoymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with US television that the vote showed Ukraine would not be “a second Afghanistan”, whose pro-western government collapsed during an American-led pullout in the summer of 2021.
Little from countless inquiries has been heeded, other than a trail of symbolisms and apologies and now a 10-year-old child has died
Australia has recorded its youngest apparent suicide in child protection custody – a 10-year-old boy, who had been in the custody of the state of Western Australia, in out-of-home care since age six.
He was a descendant of this continent’s First Peoples. The maternal side of his family was intergenerationally harangued by four generations of child removals – starting with the barbarous Stolen Generations.
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NPR News: 04-21-2024 11AM EDT
NPR News: 04-21-2024 11AM EDT
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The adoption of the Ukraine support act by the House of representatives appears a major setback for Trump.
1. He failed to deliver to his master in the Kremlin.
2. He managed to split the GOP faction in the middle = Trump does not control the GOP in the House.— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) April 21, 2024
Despite Israel’s limited response, the status quo with Iran has been breached / Amos Harelhttps://t.co/3H7DUAB5Hk
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) April 21, 2024
Zelensky: “While Ukraine Stands, There’s No Direct War Between U.S. Or NATO And Russia” https://t.co/KD2iMyvFCw
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) April 21, 2024
Live update: Ahead of Passover, Netanyahu vows to increase pressure on Hamas to free hostages https://t.co/IPc8Zr6o50
— ToI ALERTS (@TOIAlerts) April 21, 2024