After a number of years of some calm, the Middle East has erupted again! On October 7, Hamas fighters, invaded Israel, killing scores of civilians and taking many more hostage, with Israel retaliating, killing more innocent civilians, this time, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Things have since gone from bad to worse, with scores more […]
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Refugees
At the time of writing some 10 million people in Ukraine have left their homes. Many of them are, for the moment at least, still in Ukraine and hence do not yet fit the UNHCR‘s definition of refugees. Then add to these to 82,400,000 forcibly displaced people at the end of 2020 of which, according […]
The grumpy older man 