Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, hepatitis: Thousands fall ill in war-ravaged Gaza amid spike in infectious diseases
Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, acute hepatitis and respiratory infections. These are just some of the diseases spreading in the Gaza Strip, where the World Health Organization (WHO) says the health system is “on its knees and collapsing.”
As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its third month, medics and aid groups are sounding alarm bells on the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave – where the United Nations is worried that more people may end up dying of diseases than from bombs and missiles.
The coastal territory – which the Hamas militant group controls – has been under complete siege by Israel since the beginning of Israel’s war with Hamas, when the Palestinian group launched an October 7 attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 240 others, according to Israeli authorities.
Mahsa Amini’s name is ‘secret code for freedom’ says mother as EU presents award
Family of 22-year-old blocked from coming to France from Iran to collect posthumous Sakharov prize
The European parliament has presented a rights prize posthumously to Mahsa Amini, whose death in Iranian custody prompted mass protests, as her mother hailed her daughter’s name as “a secret code for freedom”.
The award is the latest international recognition for the women challenging Iran’s religious government, after the jailed activist Narges Mohammadi was given the Nobel peace prize.
Amini’s mother, father and brother missed the ceremony at the parliament in the French city of Strasbourg after Iran’s authorities confiscated their passports and barred them from flying to collect the EU’s Sakharov prize.
Germany charges 27 suspects over Reichsbürger coup plot
German prosecutors have charged 27 suspects after carrying out raids against the far-right Reichsbürger movement last year
For the first time after a series of raids last year, federal prosecutors in Germany on Tuesday brought charges linked to an alleged coup plot hatched by members of the far-right "Reichsbürger" movement.
Authorities in the western city of Karlsruhe said they had charged 26 suspected members of a terrorist organization and a Russian female national accused of supporting it.
Included in the charges, listed on the prosecutors' website, was preparation for an act of high treason.
"The accused are strongly suspected of membership of a terrorist organisation as well as preparation of a treasonous undertaking," the prosecutors said in a statement.
Food insecurity, the forgotten crisis of COP28
When it comes to climate change, the world’s food system is a double-edged sword. Food production is both one of the biggest emitters of global greenhouse gases and one of the sectors hardest hit by the effects of climate change. To reconcile these two issues, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization on Sunday set out an unprecedented roadmap for solutions. But the topic rarely makes it to the negotiating table.
Besides limiting rising temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, safeguarding food security and ending hunger were key objectives of the Paris Climate Change Agreement back in 2015. But NGOs and scientists argue that food and agriculture aren’t addressed enough at the negotiating table of the annual UN climate change conference, COP.
So on December 10, during this year’s conference COP28, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) decided to put its foot down. It published a roadmap of actions governments could take to combat both food insecurity and climate change. The report, according to the FAO, comes at a “time of urgencies”.
The global food system is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which have a significant impact on agriculture. Malnutrition has been on the rise for years, with 9% of the global population suffering from chronic hunger and a third from severe food insecurity, according to the FAO.
Ex-SDF members found guilty in high-profile sex assault case
By NOBUYUKI TAKIGUCHI/ Staff Writer
December 12, 2023 at 16:01 JST
The Fukushima District Court on Dec. 12 found three former Ground Self-Defense Force members guilty of sexually assaulting a former colleague in a highly charged case that shook up the Defense Ministry.
Presiding Judge Takaaki Miura sentenced the three--Shutaro Shibuya, 31, Akito Sekine, 29, and Yusuke Kimezawa, 29--to two years in prison and four years of probation for sexually assaulting Rina Gonoi, 24.
Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of two years in prison.
Republicans talk tough on aid despite Zelensky visit
Mike Johnson: the man Zelensky must win over
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Capitol Hill
Among the most important stops that President Volodymyr Zelensky will make on this whirlwind visit to DC will be a meeting with Mike Johnson, the latest Speaker of the House of Representatives.
That discussion will occur shortly, and Zelensky may have his work cut out for him.
Johnson, who leads the House, is a major legislative gatekeeper. Even if the aid bill passed the Senate, it will need the approval of Johnson's chamber to go to the president's desk.
The Louisiana lawmaker said he believes further aid is important, but he and other Republicans want Democrats to yield on immigration policy in exchange for their support. Johnson's immigration views are very strict, and Democrats have balked at his demands.
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