Israel is dropping tonnes of bombs on Gaza. It wants to replenish its stock. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurred a global rush to buy military equipment last year. Defence spending across the world hit more than $2 trillion. That’s the highest level in inflation-adjusted figures since at least the end of the Cold War, according […]
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UN human rights agency calls on Israel to protect West Bank Palestinians amid worsening tensions Global News UN rights chief urges probe of Israel’s ‘high-impact’ weapons Yahoo News Israel must protect Palestinians in West Bank: UN Reuters Both Israel and Hamas committing war crimes, says UN human rights chief The Independent UN human rights chief says both Israel and
President Biden’s top military adviser has told China that the United States is open to resuming military-to-military communication that Beijing suspended last year to protest then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., told reporters on Friday that re-establishing the military dialogue between two
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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
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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
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
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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
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[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
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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.
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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
