Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month
Israeli army says it is withdrawing most of its troops from Khan Younis, though a ‘significant force’ will continue to operate in the rest of Gaza.
The Israeli military says it has withdrawn its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis, amid conflicting reports about the scale and duration of the disengagement.
“Today, Sunday April 7th, the IDF’s 98th commando division has concluded its mission in Khan Younis. The division left the Gaza Strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations,” the army said in a statement on Sunday.
“A significant force led by the 162nd division and the Nahal brigade continues to operate in the Gaza Strip and will preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence based operations,” it said.
World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect
Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operations
The private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal welfare by providing financial support for factory farming, including the building of pig farming tower blocks in China.
A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups is calling on the World Bank to phase out financial support for large-scale “industrial” livestock operations. More than $1.6bn was provided for industrial farming projects between 2017 and 2023, according to an analysis by campaigners.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is owned by 186 member countries including the UK, which has a 4.5% shareholding. Andrew Mitchell, the minister for development, is a governor of the IFC.
Germany's DilemmaBerlin's Support for Israel Is Damaging Its International Standing
It’s loud on the terrace of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv. The noise from passing cars combines with the shrieking of sirens to make it difficult to hear German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. But she refuses to be distracted by the din. Baerbock is in Israel for the sixth time since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, and on this Tuesday before Easter, she has a message to send. A message of exasperation.
There are "1,000 arguments from different actors" for why too little food is finding its way into the Gaza Strip, says Baerbock, a member of Germany’s Green Party. She doesn’t care, she says, "who might when be right where." There’s no time for such debates, she says. "The only thing that matters," says Baerbock, "is that we get the aid into Gaza, and now."
Rwanda’s president decries ‘failure’ of international community 30 years after genocide
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Sunday said the international community "failed" his country during the 1994 genocide, as he paid tribute to victims 30 years after Hutu extremists tore apart the nation.
"Rwanda was completely humbled by the magnitude of our loss. And the lessons we learned are engraved in blood," Kagame said in Kigali during a solemn ceremony to commemorate a 100-day massacre that claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus.
"It was the international community which failed all of us, whether from contempt or cowardice," he said, addressing an audience that included several African heads of state and former US president Bill Clinton, who had called the genocide the biggest failure of his administration.
In keeping with tradition, the ceremonies on April 7 – the day Hutu militias unleashed the carnage in 1994 – began with Kagame placing wreathes on mass graves and lighting a remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250,000 victims are believed to be buried.
Quake-damaged railway in Noto reopens in full after 3 months
By TOMOAKI ITO/ Senior Staff Writer
April 7, 2024 at 18:45 JST
Noto Railway Co. resumed operations along the entire length of its 33.1-kilometer line after the track and other facilities were damaged in a powerful earthquake three months ago.
Services were restored along the 16.8-km stretch between Noto-Nakajima and Anamizu stations on April 6 following an accelerated pace of restoration work for the April 8 entrance ceremony of Nanao High School located along the line.
“We were initially told that it would not reopen until late April or May, but they managed to get the work done in time for the entrance ceremony next week,” Ishikawa Governor Hiroshi Hase said at an early morning ceremony held at the northernmost Anamizu Station.
One man’s artistic wonderland, created secretly in rented apartment, given protected status
A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death.
Shortly after Ron Gittins died in September 2019 at age 79, his family visited the apartment where he had lived since the mid-1980s in Birkenhead, just outside of Liverpool in northwest England.
What they found inside left them totally awestruck. Gittins had decorated almost every available surface in his home and painted numerous murals depicting historical scenes. Among the artworks were paintings set in Ancient Egypt and Georgian England, as well as fireplaces in the shape of a roaring lion’s head and a giant minotaur head, and there was even a Roman bread oven.
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