Hundreds flee north Gaza as IDF orders more evacuations amid intense airstrikes
Fresh wave of civilian displacements triggered overnight on Saturday, while Israeli strike on hospital injures director
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of new areas of northern Gaza, setting off a fresh wave of civilian displacements on Sunday as intense airstrikes continued across much of the territory.
The Israel Defense Forces said the orders for the Shujaiya neighbourhood were issued after Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israel on Saturday from a location within the densely populated district. Hamas’s armed wing said it had targeted an army base over the border.
The IDF routinely circulates warnings by social media, pamphlets and phone calls, telling people to leave areas that will be attacked. “For your safety, you must evacuate immediately to the south,” an IDF post on X said.
Pakistan: Islamabad on lockdown as Khan supporters rally
Supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan are rallying in protest to call for his release in the capital Islamabad, with the authorities blocking main roads and limiting internet access.
The Pakistani capital Islamabad was put under a security lockdown on Sunday as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan demonstrated for his release.
The protesters are demanding Khan's release, as well as other members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, and the resignation of the current government, due to what they say was a rigged election.
The country suspended mobile and internet service in "areas with security concerns" in response to the protests. Highways leading to Islamabad were blocked where PTI supporters were expected to approach the city.
Ukraine shows AP the wreckage of a new experimental Russian missile
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to fight in Ukraine.
The measure, whose final version appeared on a government website Saturday, underscores Russia’s needs for military personnel in the nearly 3-year war, even as it fired last week a new intermediate-range ballistic missile.
According to Russian state news agency Interfax, the new legislation allows those signing up for a one-year contract to write off bad debts of up to 10 million rubles ($96,000). The law applies to debts for which a court order for collection was issued and enforcement proceedings had commenced before Dec. 1, 2024. It also applies to the spouses of new recruits.
Key points of the COP29 deal to help poorer nations cope with climate change
The Baku accord raises the amount of money that developed countries must provide to help poorer nations adapt to global warming to at least $300 billion per year by 2035. The deal states that the money will come from a "wide variety of sources", including government budgets, private sector investment and other financing.
The deal reached at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan ramps up the money that wealthy historic emitters will provide to help poorer nations transition to cleaner energy and adapt to global warming.
Here are the main points of the agreement reached at COP29 in Baku:
$300 billion
Under a framework established by the UN in 1992, 23 developed countries -- and the European Union -- historically responsible for most planet-heating emissions are obliged to contribute to climate finance.
Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel
One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one.
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh’s life sat in stark contrast to the manner of the charismatic 49-year-old’s death.
The head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was working at the al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza in December when he and other medics were arrested by the Israeli army for, they said, “national security reasons”.
Four months later, Ofer Prison guards dragged Al-Bursh and dumped him in the prison yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand, according to a statement provided by Israeli human rights organisation, HaMoked.
Three more tourists named in Laos methanol deaths
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Laos authorities have released the names of two Danish women and one American man who died of suspected methanol poisoning after apparently drinking tainted alcohol.
Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, and American national James Louis Hutson, 57, were all staying at the Nana hostel in the riverside town of Vang Vieng, a travellers hub about two hours north of the capital Vientiane.
Three other tourists, including one Brit, also died from suspected methanol poisoning in the town last week.
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