'How will we survive?' Fears in Gaza over food aid after Israel moves to ban Unrwa
Unrwa staff in Jerusalem fear 'serious operational impacts'
Fergal Keane
Reporting from the Unrwa offices in Jerusalem
At the Unrwa headquarters in Jerusalem, staff were still absorbing the news of the Knesset vote.
Spokesman Jonathan Fowler describes it as “outrageous” and rejected Israel’s assertion that the organisation was colluding with Hamas.
“We said that the prospect of this vote was outrageous. The fact that the vote has happened is equally outrageous. It creates an incredibly dangerous precedent, not just for this region, but potentially with international implications in other places.”
CNN apologises for pager comment by conservative panellist to Mehdi Hasan
Ryan James Girdusky removed from NewsNight show after telling fellow guest ‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off’
Tue 29 Oct 2024 10.40 GMT
CNN apologises for pager comment by conservative panellist to Mehdi Hasan
Ryan James Girdusky removed from NewsNight show after telling fellow guest ‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off’
CNN has apologised to its viewers after a panellist on its NewsNight programme made derogatory remarks implying that a fellow guest on the show, the broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, was a terrorist.
Ryan James Girdusky, a conservative commentator, told Hasan, a Guardian US columnist and former host on MSNBC, who is Muslim, that he hoped his “beeper doesn’t go off”, in an apparent reference to Israel’s targeting of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon with exploding pagers last month. The wave of coordinated explosions killed 12 and injured thousands.
Germany summons Iran's envoy over Jamshid Sharmahd execution
Germany's Foreign Office on Tuesday denounced the "murder" of German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd, recalling Berlin's envoy to Tehran and summoning the Iranian ambassador to Germany.
Ambassador Markus Potzel also appeared before Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to protest Sharmahd being put to death "in the strongest possible terms."
North Korean troops deployed to eastern Russia for training, US says
North Korea has sent some 10,000 troops to train in Russia, Washington said Monday, tripling its previous estimate and prompting NATO and EU warnings of a dangerous expansion of the Ukraine war.
Pyongyang -- with whom Moscow signed a mutual defense pact -- is already widely believed to be arming Russia for its invasion, but troops on the ground would mark an escalation in the conflict.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned North Korea could "soon" have as many as 12,000 soldiers on Russian soil, while US President Joe Biden slammed the deployment as "very dangerous."
30 plaintiffs in Japan sue Facebook owner Meta over fake ads
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc faced fresh lawsuits in Japan on Tuesday over advertisements that fraudulently solicited investments with fake celebrity endorsements, with 30 plaintiffs seeking a total of 435 million yen in damages.
The U.S. technology giant and its Japanese arm failed to do enough to prevent the scams, according to the plaintiffs' complaint. The damages suits were filed with district courts in Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba and Saitama.
Among the names of people used in the adverts are Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc. who traveled to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft in 2021.
Conflict condemns Sudan to huge displacement, rampant sexual violence: UN
International Organization for Migration counts over 14 million forced from their homes with hunger, disease and sexual violence rampant.
War in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people and sexual violence is being seen on a “staggering” scale, United Nations agencies report.
The civil conflict has created the world’s largest displacement crisis this year, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan said in a new report that paramilitaries are preying on the female population.
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