Thursday, March 7, 2024

U.S to build temporary dock to allow aid into Gaza from ships

Packages attached to parachutes fall onto a city. Silhouettes of people standing and watching are visible in the foreground.

President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza's Mediterranean coast to receive humanitarian aid by sea, senior administration officials said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-us-dock-pier-1.7136928?cmp=rss

Trudeau non-committal about restoring funding to Palestinian relief agency UNRWA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits outside the west doors of West Block in Ottawa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday his government isn't ready to announce it's restoring federal funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency that has been delivering aid to the people of Gaza.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-unrwa-funding-restore-1.7136924?cmp=rss

Sweden officially joins NATO during ceremony in Washington

Two cleanshaven men wearing suit and tie, one of them bespectacled, pose for a photo while holding a leather-bound book together.

Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance was the Scandinavian nation's best guarantee of safety.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sweden-washington-nato-1.7136704?cmp=rss