- Palestinian Authority says 80 percent of Gaza’s health centres out of service, as Doctors Without Borders forced to leave Indonesian Hospital in Rafah amid frequent Israeli bombing of the area.
- The Israeli military has carried out multiple deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli jets bomb house in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 14 Palestinians including children. In the north, Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armoured vehicles
ActionAid partner in Rafah pauses humanitarian operations
Wefaq, a local partner of the international charity, has said it paused humanitarian operations in the southern Gaza Strip city.
This came as ActionAid warned that aid operations could grind to a “complete halt” with aid workers facing an “unprecedented” level of danger that is making their jobs “impossible”.
The charity says that aid workers in Rafah are “experiencing the same inhumane living conditions as the rest of the population” and that “virtually no aid” has entered Gaza in recent days.
Georgia protests: riot police move in on demonstrations after ‘foreign agents’ bill passed into law
Riot police move in on protesters after ‘foreign agents’ bill passed into law
Protests outside Georgia’s parliament are intensifying after a “foreign agents” bill – condemned as a Kremlin-inspired act of repression – was passed into law on Tuesday.
A number of demonstrators were treated by medics after teargas was used by police on a crowd of a few thousand people, while squads of police dragged some individuals away.
The violence spread into the chamber, with a dozen MPs fighting and one MP, from the governing Georgian Dream party, being held back by security guards as he violently lurched at the chair of the main opposition, Levan Khabeishvili.
Under the legislation, media or civil society groups in Georgia that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad will have to register as “organisations serving the interests of a foreign power”.
New Caledonia: Curfew, airport closed after riots in Noumea
Authorities have closed the airport and declared a curfew in the French territory in the Indo-Pacific, following riots in opposition to proposed voting reforms. New Zealand's foreign minister postponed a visit there.
New Caledonia's government Tuesday appealed for "reason and calm" after overnight rioting and violent protests in the capital Noumea.
"No reason for discontent, frustration and anger could justify undermining or destroying what the country has been able to build for decades and mortgaging the future," it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The government of the French territory to the east of Australia in the Indo-Pacific mobilized security forces and issued a 12-hour overnight curfew for Tuesday night.
Gunmen free inmate in deadly attack on French prison van
Gunmen on Tuesday attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.
President Emmanuel Macron vowed that everything would be done to find those behind the attack as hundreds of members of the security forces were deployed for a manhunt to find the attackers and the inmate who were all still at large.
Two prison officers were killed in the attack and two others are receiving urgent medical care, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
The incident took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France, a source close to the case added.
The inmate was being transported between the towns of Rouen and Evreux in Normandy.
Police ask return of Singapore envoy over nude ‘sento’ photos
By SHOKO MIFUNE/ Staff Writer
May 14, 2024 at 17:48 JST
Tokyo police have asked the Singaporean Embassy to help bring a diplomat back to Japan for questioning over photos he took of naked males at public bathhouses in the capital, investigative sources said.
The Metropolitan Police Department made the request through Japan’s Foreign Ministry.
The 55-year-old former Singaporean counselor was caught using his smartphone to take secret photos of a naked boy in the changing room at a “sento” public bathhouse in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Feb. 27.
In the world’s biggest election, millions of migrants are unable to vote
Chanu Gupta has lived in India’s financial capital Mumbai nearly his whole life, since arriving as a child from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
But when polls open in the city, the 59-year-old street vendor won’t be able to vote in the nationwide election – along with millions of internal migrant workers who are a major backbone of the country’s economy.
“I cannot go vote as I don’t belong to Maharashtra state,” Gupta told CNN in Mumbai’s shopping district Dadar, standing next to the roadside cart where he sells shaved ice and cold drinks. “I have voting rights in another state.”
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