Saturday, November 9, 2024

Six In The Morning Saturday 9 November 2024

 

Family mourns children killed in Israeli bombing in southern Gaza

A Gaza family sat weeping over children killed by an Israeli air strike as they were getting ready to play football in an area Israel calls a “humanitarian zone” for war-displaced Palestinians.

The attack took place in al-Mawasi, a southern coastal area where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter after Israel’s military told them to leave other Gaza areas it bombed.

Hamas may have to quit political base in Qatar after US ‘demand’

Gulf state under pressure after militant Islamist group rejects latest hostage release proposal

 in Jerusalem
Sat 9 Nov 2024 11.13 GMT


Qatar, a key US partner in the Middle East, has hosted the political office of Hamas for more than a decade and allowed many senior leaders of the organisation to live there.

The request was reported by Reuters late on Friday but has yet to be officially confirmed.

When abortion is a crime: Texas, a symbol of post-Roe America



Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Republican stronghold Texas has become one of 22 states that have banned abortion, including in cases of incest or rape. Since the ban, Texas has seen a 56 percent increase in its maternal mortality rate.

Ishiba vows military buildup, deeper ties with U.S. as regional tension rises


By MARI YAMAGUCHI

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba renewed a pledge Saturday to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump.

Ishiba, who made the comments at an annual troop review held at Camp Asaka in the Tokyo suburbs, said the security environment surrounding Japan and the international community has significantly worsened due to escalating tensions with China, Russia and North Korea. He pledged to reinforce Japan’s military power.

He said breaches of Japanese airspace by Chinese and Russian warplanes earlier in the year “not only violated Japanese sovereignty but also threatened the safety of Japan, and are absolutely unacceptable.” He said Japan faces growing threats from China’s accelerating military activity around Japanese coasts and from North Korea’s repeated missile firings.

Trump adviser says Ukraine focus must be peace, not territory

Sofia Ferreira Santos
BBC News

A senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia.

Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist, told the BBC the Trump administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a "realistic vision for peace".

"And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious," he said. "Crimea is gone."


‘It’s indescribable’: the hospital on the frontline of Haiti’s devastating gang war


 and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince
Sat 9 Nov 2024 10.00 GMT

Doctors in Port-au-Prince try to save lives as the bloodshed accelerates in the face of a powerless international security force

It was mid-morning in central Port-au-Prince and already two shooting victims had been rushed into the hospital past a mural instructing visitors to leave machetes and rifles outside.

The two men – a 60-year-old accountant and a 29-year-old electrician – sat in the trauma centre’s “shock room” being patched up as the city around them fell apart.

“We had one yesterday – it was an 81-year-old man who was going about his business and … then his life changes,” said James Gana, a Nigerian doctor who runs the unit for the French NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF).






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