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The current population of Vietnam in2024 is 99,497,680, a 0.65% increase from 2023. The population of Vietnam in 2023 was 98,858,950, a 0.68% increase from 2022. The population of Vietnam in 2022 was 98,186,856, a 0.74% increase from 2021. The population of Vietnam in 2021 was 97,468,029, a 0.85% increase from 2020.
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late wrote:
Russia is conquering countries, and if they get Ukraine, what comes after that is NATO.
late wrote:
He's been talking about Poland, and that's one of the countries Russia always wants.
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The Equality Act 2010 says you must not be discriminated against because of your race.
In the Equality Act, race can mean your colour, or your nationality (including your citizenship). It can also mean your ethnic or national origins, which may not be the same as your current nationality. For example, you may have Chinese national origins and be living in Britain with a British passport.
Race also covers ethnic and racial groups. This means a group of people who all share the same protected characteristic of ethnicity or race.
A racial group can be made up of two or more distinct racial groups, for example black Britons, British Asians, British Sikhs, British Jews, Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers.
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Israel Gaza war: EU says starvation being used as a weapon
Starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza, the EU's foreign policy chief has claimed.
Josep Borrell described the lack of aid entering the territory as a "manmade" disaster.
A Spanish ship carrying desperately needed food supplies has left Cyprus for Gaza, but the UN says this cannot replace the delivery of aid by land.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has meanwhile vowed to press on with an offensive in southern Gaza.
The quickest, most effective way to get aid into the territory is by road, but aid agencies say Israeli restrictions mean a fraction of what is needed is getting in.
Attention has instead shifted towards alternative routes including sea and air drops.
On Tuesday, a UN World Food Programme convoy used a land route to deliver aid to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks.
The trucks used an Israeli military road running along Gaza's border fence, Jamie McGoldrick, UN aid coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told Reuters.
Enough food for 25,000 people was delivered to Gaza City, with WFP spokesperson Shaza Moghraby saying they were hoping to "scale up" deliveries, but "need access to be regular and consistent".
Israel says it is not to blame for Gaza's food shortages as it is allowing aid through two crossings in the south.
But addressing the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, Mr Borrell said the humanitarian crisis in the territory was as a result of a lack of viable land routes.
"We are now facing a population fighting for their own survival," he said.
"Humanitarian assistance needs to get into Gaza, and the European Union is working as much as we can in order to make it possible.
"[The humanitarian crisis is] manmade and when we look for alternative ways of providing support by sea, by air, we have to remind [ourselves] that we have to do it because the natural way of providing support through roads is being... artificially closed.
"Starvation is being used as a war arm and when we condemned this happening in Ukraine, we have to use the same words for what is happening in Gaza."
His comments come after the UN warned at least 576,000 people in Gaza - one quarter of the population - were one step away from famine.
The territory's Hamas-run health ministry says at least 27 people, many of them children, have died as a result of malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals there in the last two weeks.
Currently en route to help is the Spanish ship the Open Arms, which set sail from Larnaca just before 09:00 (07:00 GMT) on Tuesday towing a barge loaded with 200 tonnes of food supplies.
While it is at sea, Palestinians working for World Central Kitchen (WCK) will continue building a jetty at an undisclosed location on Gaza's coast, which will be used to offload the aid.
A US military ship, General Frank S Besson, is also sailing towards the Middle East carrying equipment to build a temporary pier, which WCK says is unrelated to its own project.
Israel has welcomed the creation of the maritime corridor and said it was facilitating the transfer of aid to Gaza while its forces continued to fight Hamas.
Mr Netanyahu reiterated on Tuesday that Israel would press ahead with its military campaign into Rafah, Gaza's most southerly city located near the border with Egypt.
"We will finish the job in Rafah while enabling the civilian population to get out of harm's way," he said in a video address to a conference of the pro-Israel Aipac organisation in Washington on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the UK's Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, has urged Israel to open the major port of Ashdod - one of the country's three main cargo ports located just south of Tel Aviv - to seaborne aid deliveries destined for Gaza.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages.
More than 31,180 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry there says.
Weeks of talks involving US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have failed to bring about a ceasefire or hostage exchange deal.
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And yes, one issue with actual law of war is that it can extend conflicts. Another one is that it can in practice encourage operating within civilian areas.
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The Team of the Ukraine Support Tracker introduces a new measure to track foreign government aid to Ukraine – government “allocations”. The data show that total European aid has long overtaken U.S. aid - not only in terms of commitments, but also in terms of specific aid allocations sent to Ukraine. In addition, the approval of the EU's Ukraine Support Facility guarantees further financial assistance. However, the gap between EU commitments and allocations remains very large (€144 billion committed vs. €77 billion allocated). To fully replace U.S. military assistance in 2024, Europe would have to double its current level and pace of arms assistance. These are results from the latest Ukraine Support Tracker update, which now covers aid through January 15, 2024.
A new research report explains the methodological update and new results on “aid allocation”. It also contains a discussion on French aid numbers.
“Thus far, limited transparency required a focus on "commitments”, or the amount of aid promised. With this latest update, the Ukraine Support Tracker has been expanded to track specific aid packages that are allocated or earmarked for delivery in the near future. The "allocations" data provide a much better picture of the aid that is actually arriving in Ukraine,” says Christoph Trebesch, head of the Ukraine Support Tracker and Research Director at the Kiel Institute.
US aid has come to a halt
According to the latest update, US aid commitments and deliveries to Ukraine have essentially come to a halt, given that no new support package has passed the US Congress. European aid, in contrast, continues to grow, both in terms of commitments and in terms of aid “allocations” – meaning aid that has been “allocated” or earmarked for a specific purpose and to be sent to Ukraine in the near term.
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The fresh package, the 22nd since the start of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, will bring the total defense aid given to Kyiv by Finland to 1.8 billion euros ($1.94 billion)
Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Scandinavian kingdom has announced arms deliveries worth €4.5 billion.
According to data gathered by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, as of the end of July Norway had given the highest percentage, at 1.4%.
It marks Sweden's 15th aid package to Ukraine and is the largest yet.
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noemon wrote:
You claimed Europe is as in on it in Ukraine as the US, but your were proven conclusively wrong.
It is not Europe refilling European weapon stocks, it's the US. It's not Europe escalating with "Fuck the EU" Nuland.
It was not Europe that blew up South Stream in Germany, that was the US, UK, Ukraine.
It is not Europe failing to sign international treaties with Putin, they have signed 2 of them and a third one almost had it not been the US and its tail the UK.
Telegraph=anti-Russian British rag wrote:
Asked who was responsible for the war, 36 per cent of Germans blamed the US, 15 per cent Nato and 9 per cent Ukraine; only 29 per cent blamed Putin or Russia. In France, 46 per cent blamed the Americans, 36 per cent Nato, 19 per cent Ukraine, and 40 per cent Putin.
De Gaulle wrote:
"The French are paying a heavy price for a war provoked by the United States to turn Europe into a vassal," he told the newspaper.
"Public opinion in France is beginning to understand what the evil game of the Americans is today. By using lies... within Nato, the United States has managed to use the Ukrainian crisis to destabilise Europe."
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No, just stating the facts.
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