UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City
IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar
Fri 22 Aug 2025 15.34 BST
UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City
IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar
An “entirely man-made” famine is taking place in Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area amid deteriorating conditions that threaten an exponential increase in deaths across the devastated territory, UN-backed experts have declared.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a globally recognised organisation that classifies the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition, found that three key thresholds for famine had been met, signalling a major escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Only four famines have been declared by the IPC since it was established in 2004, most recently in Sudan last year.
Adidas reps apologize to Mexican artisans over sandals
Shakeel Sobhan with AP, AFP, Reuters, dpa
The German sportswear brand offered a "public apology" in person to a Mexican Indigenous community for cultural appropriation in the design of its Oaxaca Slip-On shoe.
Adidas has issued a public apology to a small Indigenous town in Mexico's Oaxaca state for a shoe design criticized as cultural appropriation.
Executives from the German sportswear manufacturer traveled to the town of Villa Hidalgo Yalalag to personally deliver their remarks after issuing a written apology last week.
North Korea's Kim decorates 'heroes' who fought for Russia against Ukraine
New images released by North Korean state media on Friday showed leader Kim Jong-un kneeling before portraits of soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, as well as hugging an emotional survivor of the conflict.
The images of an elaborate ceremony showed an overcome Kim presenting medals, placing them beside portraits of the fallen and consoling the returned soldiers, as Pyongyang's leadership hailed the soldiers as "heroes" who sacrificed their youth and lives.
Kyiv launched a cross-border offensive into Russia's Kursk region in August 2024, seizing dozens of villages before the attack stalled. Bolstered by thousands of North Korean troops sent by Pyongyang to halt the offensive, Moscow has since retaken all the territory occupied by Ukrainian forces.
Nvidia to join team developing Japan’s next supercomputer
By TAKAHIRO TAKENOUCHI/ Staff Writer
August 22, 2025 at 18:25 JST
U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. will participate in the development of Japan’s next flagship supercomputer, which is scheduled to be operational around 2030.
The announcement was made on Aug. 22 by the Riken scientific research institute whose Kobe campus in Hyogo Prefecture is home to Fugaku, the country's current leading supercomputer.
In a first for Japan, the plan is to incorporate high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs), designed particularly for generative artificial intelligence (AI), into this new supercomputer. These would be sourced from Nvidia, the world's leading chipmaker.
Five bodies recovered at suspected site of cult deaths in Kenya
At least five bodies have been recovered from shallow graves at a site in Kenya where victims of a religious cult are suspected to have been buried, according to authorities.
Excavations were continuing on Friday at the site on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya’s Kilifi County, close to where hundreds of members of a doomsday cult were found dead two years ago.
Asylum hotel protests latest: Protesters face off in Portsmouth as weekend of nationwide demonstrations begins
Anti-immigration demonstrators have been met with anti-racism campaigners in Portsmouthm as a weekend of planned protests begins.
Police enforced a gap between the two groups as the anti-immigrant group chanted “Send them home” while the counter group chanted: “Refugees are welcome here” on Friday afternoon.
There has been a surge in protests against the use of such hotels since demonstration at The Bell Hotel in Epping earlier this summer.
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