Israel hits Gaza targets in heaviest bombardment
Austrian government flies Israeli flag
Edited by Sean Fanning
The Israeli flag is flying on official buildings in Austria today in a sign of "solidarity".
"I condemn with the utmost firmness the attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip," conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in a statement to the AFP news agency.
"Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks. To show our solidarity ... we have put up the Israeli flag," on the chancellery and the foreign ministry, the statement added.
"Nothing justifies the more than 1,000 rockets that Hamas and other terrorist groups have fired up to now at Israel from Gaza," said Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg.
‘Bodies are being eaten by hyenas; girls of eight raped’: inside the Tigray conflict
The Ethiopian nun, who has to remain anonymous for her own security, is working in Mekelle, Tigray’s capital, and surrounding areas, helping some of the tens of thousands of people displaced by the fighting who have been streaming into camps in the hope of finding shelter and food. Both are in short supply. Humanitarian aid is being largely blocked and a wholesale crackdown is seeing civilians being picked off in the countryside, either shot or rounded up and taken to overcrowded prisons. She spoke to Tracy McVeigh this week.
“After the last few months I’m happy to be alive. I have to be OK. Mostly we are going out to the IDP [internally displaced people] camps and the community centres where people are. They are in a bad way.
“In comparison to the other places, Mekelle is much better, although I consider it chaotic as we have 40 to 65 people sleeping in one room. For 3,000 to 6,000 people, there are four toilets for men and four for women. Sanitation is very poor, water is not always available. Food and medicines … they are difficult to find.
First shipment of Chernobyl-produced alcohol seized by authorities
According to the Chernobyl Spirit Company, 1,500 bottles of their Atomik spirit were confiscated on 19 March.
These bottles were then taken to the Kyiv Prosecutor’s office where they are now undergoing investigation.
The spirit is apparently the first consumer product to have been made in Chernobyl since the nuclear disaster struck there in 1986.
India tops 24 million Covid-19 cases as new variant spreads across globe
The number of recorded COVID-19 infections in India climbed above 24 million on Friday amid reports that the highly transmissible coronavirus mutant first detected in the country was spreading across the globe.
The Indian B.1.617 variant of the virus has been found in cases in eight countries of the Americas, including Canada and the United States, said Jairo Mendez, a WHO infectious diseases expert.
People infected by the variant included travellers in Panama and Argentina who had arrived from India or Europe. In the Caribbean, cases of the Indian variant have been detected in Aruba, Dutch St Maarten and the French department of Guadeloupe.
How Treasury Wine turned to gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg to solve its Crimes
When Treasury Wine’s US marketing head John Wardley first enlisted the help of legendary rapper Snoop Dogg to promote the company’s new 19 Crimes line, he was told two very important pieces of information.
“His manager assured me, right from the start, that he may not turn up on time, but when he does turn up, he nails it,” Wardley says.
“And that’s exactly what we found. We had a joke about ‘Snoop Time’, where Snoop does things at Snoop time. But at the end of the day, I have to tell you, he is a consummate professional.”
Solar panels are key to Biden's energy plan. But the global supply chain may rely on forced labor from China
Updated 0548 GMT (1348 HKT) May 14, 2021
China's Xinjiang region has evolved over the past two decades into a major production hub for many of the companies that supply the world with parts needed to build solar panels.
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