Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
By Kaamil Ahmed , Ana Lucía González Paz, Lucy Swan and Garry Blight. Graphics by Finbarr Sheehy, Harvey Symons and Paul Scruton
Tue 22 Jul 2025 11.47 BST
Raed Jamal sends the message shortly after he returns, empty-handed, from an aid distribution point to his tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in south-west Gaza. “The tanks came and started firing. Three boys near me were martyred,” says the 36-year-old, who has four children. “I didn’t even get anything, just two empty boxes.”
Jamal’s journey involved a long walk to and from a former residential neighbourhood bulldozed by Israeli forces and turned into one of four militarised aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is based in Delaware in the US.
Venezuela says US migrants were tortured in El Salvador
Amy Stockdale AFP, AP, Reuters
Venezuela has launched an investigation into the alleged torture of its citizens in El Salvador prison. The Venezuelan citizens who had been deported from the US to the prison were released on Friday.
The Venezuelan Attorney General office on Monday announced an investigation into allegations of torture of migrants sent to an El Salvador prison from the US.
The more than 250 Venezuelans were returned home on Friday in a prisoner exchange with the US. They had been detained in the notorious Terrorisom Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison in El Salvador since March.
Hungry and exhausted, AFP journalists document Gaza war
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that chronic food shortages are affecting their ability to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas militants.
Palestinian text, photo and video journalists working for the international news agency said desperate hunger and lack of clean water is making them ill and exhausted.
Some have even had to cut back on their coverage of the war, now in its 22nd month, with one journalist saying "we have no energy left due to hunger".
The United Nations in June condemned what it claimed was Israel's "weaponisation of food" in Gaza and called it a war crime, as aid agencies urge action and warnings about malnutrition multiply.
Study suggests xenophobia as the ‘default’ is a conformity issue
Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
July 22, 2025 at 14:19 JST
While researching overseas cases of “haigai shugi” (xenophobia), I realized that this word, which literally means “exclusion of foreigners and foreign things,” can be substituted with other expressions in English.
The strongest expression is “hatred against foreigners” (“gaikokujin keno” in Japanese) but "anti-foreign sentiment" ("hangaikokujin kanjo") and “contempt for immigrants” (“imin besshi”) are also often used.
There are fewer expressions that emphasize “exclusion” (“haijo”) or “ostracization” (“haiseki”).
‘No miracles’: Russia downplays Ukraine talks as deadly attacks continue
Kremlin plays down expectations for Istanbul negotiations as Ukrainian officials say 10-year-old boy killed in Russian attack on Kramatorsk.
Russia has played down expectations of any breakthrough in upcoming talks with Ukraine in Turkiye, as Ukrainian officials said one child was killed and more than 20 people were wounded in overnight Russian attacks.
“We don’t have any reason to hope for some miraculous breakthroughs,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, saying this was “hardly possible in the current situation”.
The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu turns to the world court as climate disasters mount
When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies, and clouds of darting fish wove through the labyrinth.
“We used to know every inch of that reef,” he said. “It was like a friend.”
Now, it’s unrecognizable. After Cyclone Pam battered the reef in 2015, sediment from inland rivers smothered the coral beds. Crown-of-thorns starfish swept in and devoured the recovering polyps. Back-to-back cyclones in 2023 crushed what was left. Then, in December 2024, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the seabed.
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