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The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Wednesday condemning and demanding an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen Houthi rebels on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea area.The resolution, sponsored by the United States and Japan, says stanley tumbler at least two dozen Houthi attacks are impeding global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security. The vote was 11-0 with four abstentions 鈥?Russia, China, Algeria and Mozambique. Immediately before the vote, the council rejected three proposed Russian amendments.The Iranian-backed Houthis, who have been engaged in a civil war with Yemen internationally recognized government since 2014, have said they launched the attacks with the aim of ending Israel devastating air-and-ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.Story continues below this adIt was triggered by the Palestinian militant group Hamas ; Oct. 7 surprise attack in southern Israel which killed about 1,200 people and led to some 250 others being taken hostage. Israel three-month assault in Gaza has killed more than 23,000 people, two-t stanley mugs hirds of them women and children, according to the Hams-run Gaza Health Ministry which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.The resolution demands the immediate rele stanley cups uk ase of the first ship the Houthis attacked, the Galaxy Leader, a Japanese-operated cargo ship with links to an Israeli company that it seized on Nov. 19 along with its crew.Howeve Xryy Decayed bodies found on hospital roof in Pak, probe ordered
Lee was seen as part of a pressure campaign against the stanley website administration of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. Source: Via AP video China on Wednesday defended a five-year prison sentence handed down to a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist who held online political lectures and helped the families of jailed Chinese dissidents, saying the punishment was arrived at partly due to the degree of harm to society.聽The trial of Lee Ming-che was seen as a demonstratio stanley cup n of how Beijing harshest crackdown on human rights in decades has extended beyond the Chinese mainland, and sent a chill through Taiwanese society.Lee and a mainland Chinese colleague pleaded guilty and were convicted on the vaguely defined charge of 8220 ubversion of state power. The Chinese man, Peng Yuhua, was given a seven-year sentence. Both said they would not appeal _ a possible sign they had reached a deal with the court in exchange for a degree of leniency.Spokesman for the Cabinet Taiwan Affairs Office Ma Xiaoguang told reporters Wednesday that Lee sentence was based on the facts, the nature and circumstances of the crime and the degree of harm to the society.Story continues below this adMa offered no specific details on the degree of harm, but said, Whether Lee Ming-che actions endanger the security a stanley mug nd security of the mainland should be judged by mainland laws, rather than by outsiders.Taiwan government and human rights gr |
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