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Pablo Torre Finds Out: NEW INVESTIGATION: Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera's technology is powering Russia's drone war on Ukraine and is linked to what the UN calls "crimes against humanity," according to an undercover @hntrbrkmedia report.
As the civil war approaches its third year, death toll estimates vary widely. The United Nations and other aid agencies have recorded 20,000 confirmed deaths. A more recent report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Sudan Research Group claimed that more than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, 26,000 as a direct result of the violence. Meanwhile, former US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello claimed last year that up to 150,000 people had been killed. The civil war has also been marked by horrific atrocities such as sexual violence, torture, mutilation and ethnic cleansing. This was further underscored when the Sudanese military’s last remaining stronghold in Darfur fell to the RSF recently. The militia embarked on a mass killing spree so severe that images of the blood saturating the ground could be seen from space.
There's a possibility that the EuroLeague may not complete its 2025-26 season with all 20 teams. Following Israel's actions in Gaza against Palestine, the United Nations already deemed it a genocide, urging football's governing body UEFA to suspend Israel and its teams from the European competitions. The Times has reported that UEFA members are in favour of suspending Israel, so is the EuroLeague considering taking a similar action? The EuroLeague CEO, Paulius Motiejunas, didn't jump to conclusions, but didn't rule it out, saying that the league is monitoring the current events.
The former Toronto Raptors president was appointed as a United Nations sustainable goals development advocate on Thursday, according a release sent out by Giants of Africa. Ujiri, who parted with the Raptors in June, will join a group of international leaders in the SDG group, which aims to end global poverty and hunger while increasing well-being and education.
Masai Ujiri will spend the run-up to NBA training camps expanding his global horizons on another of his passions. The former president and vice-chair of the Raptors has been appointed a sustainable development goal advocate by United Nations secretary António Guterres, the group announced Thursday.
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Chris Haynes: Embiid to me on his UN participation: “I’ve never experienced UN week and it was very eye opening. I met so many leaders from Africa trying to create opportunities. I think of my own experience, and all the Africans in professional sports around the world, and how we can get all that influence working together.”
Chris Haynes: Joel Embiid to me on his UN participation: “I’ve never experienced UN week and it was very eye opening. I met so many leaders from Africa trying to create opportunities. I think of my own experience, and all the Africans in professional sports around the world, and how we can get all that influence working together.”
The latest war in Sudan, which began in April 2023, has produced one of the largest displacement crises in the world. Some projections have more than eight million displaced Sudanese, mostly from South Sudan and including those displaced within the country. Another generation is being affected by war and will too know the longings of home. That’s why they didn’t lose on this night against USA. Because South Sudanese people across the world got to see their flag, their people, their likeness on a pedestal with legends. Omot was born in a refugee camp in Kenya in 1994, and he was the lucky one. His parents and older siblings trekked from Ethiopia and were arrested. The United Nations helped get them freed and settled into the Kenyan refugee camp, where Omot was born. He was two when the family relocated to Minnesota. Wednesday, he scored a game-high 24 points on 8-for-12 shooting and was dancing with LeBron James.
“There have been a lot of great moments and some low moments as well. I’d have to think more about that,” Silver said, before immediately pivoting to things like World Basketball Day being celebrated by the United Nations, how more girls are interested in the WNBA and that players are more open about their mental health than ever before. Silver seems to be always looking forward, not backward. “I’m happy for him,” Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard said. “He’s been pushing this league in a great way and making it more worldwide, global. And I think he’s still going to continue to do that and do great things.”
Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr.'s alleged attack on his girlfriend at a New York City hotel left the woman with a fractured neck vertebra and a cut above her right eye, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment Tuesday. Porter, 23, is charged with felony assault and strangulation in connection with the incident Monday at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations in Manhattan. He was not required to enter a plea during his brief court appearance.
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You first entered into team ownership in 2009 and then became majority owner of ASVEL in 2014 – what have you learned since you’ve been working on the ownership side of the sport? Tony Parker: It’s always something that I wanted to do and always something that I had in mind. I was very blessed to make good money in the NBA and invest, and I always knew that was going to be my way to give back to French basketball. In ’09, I bought 20% because I wanted to see how it works. Then in 2014, I bought majority, and in 2017, I bought the women’s team. It was important and I wanted to have both teams. I’m an ambassador for the United Nations and I’m big on equality.
Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
Jusuf Nurkic: Genocide in Srebrenica ‼️ Unending pain of the Bosnia 🇧🇦 HERZEGOVINA Every year on July 11, Bosniaks mark the anniversary of the attack on the UN safe area of Srebrenica. Twenty-seven years later, Srebrenica remains an open wound for Bosniaks. pic.twitter.com/TaY5F9A4nV