Friday, March 29, 2024

World

Video: Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad reads her poem ‘Only in Gaza’

Palestinian journalist and writer Plestia Alaqad shares a poem with Middle East Eye's Mohamed Hassan during a conversation about the power of storytelling, leaving Gaza and what the world is still missing in the way it sees Palestine.

ICJ orders Israel to stop preventing ‘delivery of urgently needed’ aid

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday ordered Israel to provide immediate, unhindered delivery of aid to...

Gaza war surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah elected rector at University of Glasgow

Gaza war surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah elected rector at University of Glasgow.

In a week, Israeli army executes 13 children in and near Al-Shifa Hospital: Euro-Med Monitor

The Israeli army has executed 13 children by direct shooting in Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its Gaza City...

Gangs, kidnappings, murders: Why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats

Ruth Wells, UNSW Sydney and Max William Loomes, UNSW Sydney Late last week, a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees...

Sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in DRC: fatherless children speak about pain of being abandoned

Kirstin Wagner, University of Birmingham My father left my mother while she was pregnant – she gave birth when he had already left. People call me “daughter of a bitch”....

Olivia Newton-John, world’s most popular entertainer in 80’s,  dies aged 73

Olivia Newton-John, the musical star who found enduring fame for her leading role in the film Grease, has died aged 73. The news was confirmed by her husband.
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3 days of Israeli bombing in Gaza: 16 children among killed 45 Palestinians

After three days of heavy Israeli bombardment on the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel and the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad declared a truce late Sunday.

From Hiroshima, UN chief calls for global nuclear disarmament

It is totally unacceptable for states in possession of nuclear weapons to admit the possibility of a nuclear war, António Guterres underscored early on Saturday in Japan at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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Israeli air strikes take Gaza death toll to 24, including six children

The latest killings in Gaza by Israeli forces bring the tally of children killed since Friday to six, and the total toll among Palestinians to 24.

Gaza bombing: Toll rises to 10, 5-year-old girl among killed by Israel

On Friday, Israel launched missiles throughout the besieged Palestinian enclave, killing 10 people, including a five-year-old girl, a 23-year-old woman, as well as Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of Islamic Jihad’s military wing.
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Israel kills 8 Palestinians in Gaza bombing

Israel on Friday killed at least eight Palestinians, including a five-year-old child and a commander of the al-Quds Brigades in the latest air raids on Palestine's Gaza strip.

Taiwan: Beijing reacts to Pelosi’s visit with live-fire exercises

Todd Hall, University of Oxford The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has reportedly fired several DF-15B ballistic missiles into the seas around Taiwan as part of large-scale military drills announced...
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China launches major war drills near Taiwan

In response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China fired a barrage of ballistic missiles into the waters around the self-ruled island as it launched large-scale military exercises.

Monkeypox concern heightened after becoming a ‘northern’ disease, says WHO

Countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, “no matter the nationality, skin colour or religion of the affected population,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in US drone strike

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, United States President Joe Biden has said.

Putin says United States is main threat to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new naval doctrine which cast the United States as Russia’s main rival and set out Russia’s global maritime ambitions for crucial areas such as the Arctic and in the Black Sea.
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