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‘Anyone who says the UN is dead should spend some time with my colleagues in Sudan or DRC’

‘Anyone who says the UN is dead should spend some time with my colleagues in Sudan or DRC’

Published by Sam Flores

The Al-Qadisiyah refugee camp in Khan Yunis, Gaza, February 13, 2026. ABDELRAHMAN RASHAD FOR LE MONDE Tom Fletcher is the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs (OCHA). During a visit to Paris, the British diplomat, appointed to the role in 2024, responded to the first meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, held Thursday, February 19, in Washington. The official mission of the Board of Peace, created by the US president, is to rebuild Gaza. But the board seems, at least in Trump’s mind, to have a broader mandate. Is it intended to compete with the UN? I was in Davos [at the World Economic Forum held from January 19 to 23] a couple of weeks ago when they were convening it, and I talked a lot to the White House about the Board of Peace. In every conversation, they started by reassuring me that this is not an alternative to the UN, it’s not a threat to the UN. The UN is 193 countries, it has its charter, it’s on a completely different scale. …

“I was foolish to spend time with him”: Gates says he “regrets” associating with Epstein

“I was foolish to spend time with him”: Gates says he “regrets” associating with Epstein

Published by Sam Flores

Microsoft founder Bill Gates broke his silence regarding his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, saying he “regrets” ever knowing the international sex trafficker. Gates appeared in photographs in prior batches of released Epstein files, but is mentioned by name in the latest release. In Emails from 2013, Epstein claims that Gates got an STD from unnamed “Russian girls” and had requested antibiotics to give to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, “surreptitiously.” Gates’ office flatly rejected the claims in a statement on Friday. French Gates publicly urged her ex-husband to answer for his ties to Epstein. “Whatever questions remain there … for those people, and for even my ex-husband, they need to answer to those things, not me,” she told NPR on Tuesday.  Gates addressed his relationship to Epstein in an interview with Australia’s 9News, calling the allegations in the email “false” and calling himself “foolish” for associating with Epstein. “Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is false,” Gates said. “I don’t know what his thinking …

I’m not attracted to my girlfriend – but I want to spend the rest of my life with her

Published by Miika Tikkanen

I’m struggling in my relationship and I think my girlfriend is catching on. I am an 18-year-old man and she is 19. I know already that she is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. I know I am lucky to have found her and I don’t want to let her go. But, while she always has a high sex drive for me, I do not have the same for her. I have sex with her semi-regularly, but it is never really passionate and I don’t get much satisfaction from it. I’m aware that my feelings about her are coming through in everyday conversations. I sometimes mention, for instance, that what she is eating isn’t the best, or that she should go to the gym more often. I know this is unhealthy and is making her unhappy. I don’t know how to solve this problem, let alone work out what it even is. At 18, you are just at the beginning of your sexual and relationship journey. It’s important to …