About 200 Palestinians leaving Rafah each hour, UNRWA says
An average of 200 people are leaving Rafah every hour following Israel’s evacuation order, according to estimates by the UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA).
“The displacement is ongoing and people are leaving towards Khan Younis and the Middle Areas,” said UNRWA communications director Juliette Touma.
“It’s not possible to give a total number of people displaced at the moment given how fluid the situation is,” she added.
A senior UNRWA official told US broadcaster CNN that approximately 50,000 people had left Rafah since Monday.
- People are pouring into central Gaza by the thousands, mainly to Deir el-Balah city, after Israel’s seizure of the vital Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt.
- A full-scale invasion of Rafah by Israeli forces would be “a strategic mistake, a political calamity, and a humanitarian nightmare”, UN secretary-general warns.
- “With each day that Israeli authorities block life-saving aid, more Palestinians are at risk of dying,” Human Rights Watch says.
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed.
Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit would be met.
Indian police arrest 4 for luring recruits to Russian war
Investigators in India say police have detained four suspects accused of tricking young men to join Russia's front-line forces in Ukraine.
Investigators in India have announced that federal police arrested four people accused of duping young men into going to Russia to fight in the Ukraine war.
At least two Indians have been killed in the conflict, with many more saying they were lured to Russia and sent to the front lines under false pretenses.
What we know about the trafficking operation
Two of the four suspects were arrested on Tuesday, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, while another two were arrested on April 24.
They included a translator, a person who would arrange visas and plane tickets, and two main recruiters operating in the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Student protests against Gaza war spread in Europe, sparking clashes and dozens of arrests
Protests by students demanding universities sever ties with Israel over the Gaza war spread across western Europe on Tuesday, sparking clashes and dozens of fresh arrests.
Students at various European universities, inspired by ongoing demonstrations at US campuses, have been occupying halls and facilities, demanding an end to partnerships with Israeli institutions because of Israel's punishing assault on Gaza.
Several hundred protesters resumed a demonstration around the University of Amsterdam campus, where police the previous night were filmed baton-charging them and smashing up their tents after they refused to leave the grounds.
As protests resumed on Tuesday night, demonstrators erected barriers to access routes watched over by a heavy police deployment.
France Says It Built the Olympics Safely. Migrant Workers Don’t Count.
Undocumented workers played a larger and more dangerous role in delivering the Games than the Macron administration acknowledges.
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to build the Summer Olympics safely, free of the construction hazards and migrant worker abuses that tarnished soccer’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Months before the Games begin in Paris, he declared success.
“We are living up to the commitments we made,” Mr. Macron said in February.
Government data shows fewer than 200 injuries at Olympics sites over a four-year construction blitz. And no deaths.
Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem
The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ever-declining population.
Abandoned houses are known in Japan as “akiya” – a term that usually refers to derelict residential homes tucked away in rural areas.
But more akiya are being seen in major cities, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, and that’s a problem for a government that’s already grappling with an aging population and an alarming fall in the number of children born each year.
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