Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals
Doctors and medical staff in Gaza say their increasing hunger and the lack of available food is beginning to leave them too weak to provide urgent medical care to patients inside hospitals full of malnourished and injured civilians.
Almost a dozen medical staff across the territory have told the Guardian and the Arabic Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) of their increasingly desperate search for food and declining physical health due to hunger.
“They are in a state of extreme exhaustion. Some have fainted in the operating rooms,” said Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, who said that like the people of Gaza, staff had not received any aid or had any meals in the past 48 hours.
German government denies rift over Israel's conduct in Gaza
Richard Connor with AFP, dpa, Reuters
The German chancellery insists that the ruling coalition is united in its stance on Israel's actions in Gaza, despite differing views. A split appeared after Germany refused to add its name to a 28-country declaration.
German Chancellery Minister Thorsten Frei on Wednesday dismissed concerns of a rift within Germany's coalition government over its position on Israel.
An apparent split emerged after Germany opted not to join dozens of Western countries in signing a condemnation of the "inhumane killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Zelensky faces major protests after signing bill targeting anti-graft bodies
Ukrainian activists called for more protests against a law they say weakens the country’s anti-corruption bodies. The legislation has also drawn rebukes from European Union officials and international rights groups.
Thousands of people gathered in the capital and other cities across Ukraine on Tuesday evening to urge President Volodymyr Zelensky to veto a controversial bill passed by Ukraine’s Parliament earlier that day. After Zelenskyy approved it, activists called on social media for another demonstration in the center of Kyiv at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal
By Francis Tang
STAFF WRITER
Japan and the United States reached a surprise trade deal on Tuesday in Washington after months of fruitless negotiations and some tense moments, with both sides taking victory laps and Japanese markets cheering the news.
The United States is promoting it as the deal of the century. For Japan, it was a mission-accomplished moment.
The agreement, the details of which are still being ironed out, includes a 15% "reciprocal" tariff on most Japanese goods and 12.5% on cars, with 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum remaining unchanged.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron sue far-right podcaster Candace Owens over false claims French president’s wife is a man
Defamation lawsuit accuses Owens of spreading ‘grotesque narrative’ across platforms in ‘campaign of global humiliation’
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron have filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens over the far-right influencer’s “relentless and unjustified smear campaign” falsely accusing Brigitte of being a man.
The 219-page defamation complaint filed in Delaware state court on Wednesday accuses Owens of proliferating “demonstrably false” claims through her platforms, including in an eight-part podcast and on social media, designed to feed a “frenzied fan base” in “pursuit of fame,” the Macrons allege.
In landmark opinion, UN court says climate change an ‘existential threat’
ICJ Judge Yuji Iwasawa says greenhouse emissions are ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’ as he delivers landmark opinion.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun delivering a historic advisory opinion on climate change, which it has called an “urgent and existential threat”.
Reading the opinion at the Peace Palace in The Hague, ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa said on Wednesday that greenhouse gas emissions are “unequivocally caused by human activities” and have cross-border effects.
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