A child killed on average every 10 minutes in Gaza, says WHO chief
United NationsReuters A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council on Friday, warning: “Nowhere and no one is safe.” He said that half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary healthcare centres were not functioning […]
US voices concern over killing of Palestinians; Macron urges end to bombing as Gaza reported death toll tops 11,000
GazaReuters The United States on Friday expressed growing concern about the rising Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip where health officials said the number killed in a five-week-old Israeli bombardment had topped 11,000. Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants escalated near and around Gaza City’s besieged and overcrowded hospitals, which Palestinian officials said […]
Australia signs climate, migration and security pact with Pacific’s Tuvalu
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday signed a bilateral agreement with Tuvalu, aimed at countering China’s influence in the Pacific and protecting the tiny island nation from climate change. The agreement, which Albanese said made Australia Tuvalu’s “partner of choice”, covers climate change, security and human mobility. “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili union will […]
Snapshot: Runway at Jamestown Airport, Saint Helena
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Indian capital gets a breather as rain brings respite from smog
New Delhi, IndiaReuters Overnight rain in New Delhi and its suburbs brought some relief to the Indian capital on Friday morning, where authorities were mulling seeding clouds to improve the toxic air gripping the city. The city, which was the most polluted in the world till Thursday, saw its air quality index improve to 127 […]
On the Screen: ‘The Marvels’, a bizarre blend of characters and concepts
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Australia to release asylum seekers in indefinite detention after landmark ruling
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers. The High Court ruled on Wednesday that the man from Myanmar identified as NZYQ, who has been in […]
Boat carrying 81 migrants arrives in Canary Islands, one person found dead
La Restinga, Spain Reuters A boat carrying 81 migrants arrived on the Spanish Canary island of El Hierro on Thursday, including one person who had died and others in need of medical assistance, local emergency services said. At least five migrants were receiving assistance in a temporary hospital set up by the Red Cross at […]
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls to lowest since 2018
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3 per cent in the 12 months through July, government data showed on Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made good on a pledge to rein in the destruction that happened under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Some 9,001 square kilometres of Amazon jungle were […]
Burkina Faso junta’s conscription of critics rattles civil society and unions
Reuters Burkina Faso’s military junta is abusing an emergency law to conscript perceived dissidents and critics to join a deadly fight against militants linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, warned lawyers, journalists and watchdog Human Rights Watch this week. In a series of statements, civil society groups and unions for journalists and lawyers accused the […]