Hospitals in Gaza City and northern Gaza are in their final, “critical hours”, and are expected to completely go out of service due to a lack of fuel and as a result of “direct and intentional targeting”, the government’s media office said. The number of hospitals that have gone out of service since the beginning … Read more
Marc Lamont Hill challenges former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The Israel-Gaza war has been raging for more than a month, killing over 10,500 civilians in Gaza, half of them children. Israel says it is acting in legitimate self-defence and is rooting out Hamas. Meanwhile, criticism over the … Read more
OTTAWA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday condemned recent violence as unacceptable after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal overnight and clashes between students at a university in the same city late on Wednesday. Police on Thursday said they were investigating overnight shootings at two Jewish schools … Read more
Crying in a hospital bed with a nebuliser mask on his tiny face, one-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. His doctors blame the acrid air that blights New Delhi every year. The spartan emergency room of the government-run Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya hospital in the Indian capital is crowded with children struggling to … Read more
[1/3]Police work at the site where Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former head of Spain’s People’s Party in the Catalonia region, was shot in the face, in Madrid, Spain, November 9, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce Acquire Licensing Rights MADRID, Nov 9 (Reuters) – The former head of Spain’s centre-right People’s Party in the Catalonia region was shot in the … Read more
Palestinians live moment to moment as Israel’s bombardment continues. Life in Gaza is dominated by fears of Israeli attacks, finding somewhere safe, worrying about food, water, medicine and whether loved ones are still alive. In the middle of this brutal present, some world leaders have already begun discussing the future, once the war is over. … Read more
For over a month, Gaza’s night sky has been lit by the red glow of missile flashes, delivering death and destruction to its 2.3 million residents. It is the same during the day, except the colours are different, as Gaza’s blue skies are blackened with plumes of smoke rising from newly levelled homes. Since the … Read more
Silencing the media: 40 journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 Al Jazeera English Israel can’t hide truth by killing journalists, say protesters at Pakistan rally Anadolu Agency | English More than one journalist per day is dying in the Israel-Gaza conflict. This has to stop The Conversation Indonesia Journalists have been killed covering the war in southern … Read more
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the move was in response to continued attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq. The United States has attacked an alleged weapons storage facility in eastern Syria it believes was being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran-backed groups. In a statement on Wednesday, US … Read more
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory,” wrote Winston Churchill. “He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king.” Churchill, considered one of the greatest English orators of all time, wrote those words when he was but 22, … Read more