‘Very sick and very tired’: the reality of famine for Gaza’s most vulnerable
Catastrophic hunger caused by aid blockade is most keenly felt by elderly people, the young and the destitute
In the overcrowded, rubble strewn streets of Gaza City, there was little surprise at the announcement that UN-backed experts believed the scenes of desperation could now be formally described as a famine.
“This is something we have been saying for months now, and we have witnessed this and we have been living this and suffering this. We feel very powerless and very sick and very tired,” said Amjad Shawa, the director of the Palest
Czech film highlights Ukraine war conspiracy theories
Can you change pro-Russian conspiracy theorists' minds? Czech director Robin Kvapil tried, driving three of them to Ukraine, then filming the outcome. The resulting documentary has been controversial.
The scene: A pine forest near Izium, a city on the Donets River in eastern Ukraine. There are empty graves all around. This is where Russian soldiers buried the hundreds of civilians they killed in the spring of 2022.
The graves are empty because the bodies in them have been exhumed for examination. Some of the people buried here were horribly tortured. Along with Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv, this is the site of some of the most serious Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine.
'A final push': Spain has nearly contained deadly wildfires, official says
Historic wildfires that have raged across Spain and killed four people are beginning to relent, the head of the country's civil protection and emergencies service Virginia Barcones said Saturday. Weeks of heatwaves exacerbated by the climate crisis have fuelled devastating fires across southern Europe this summer.
Spain has almost beaten back wildfires that have swept across the country this month, killing four people and ravaging huge swathes of land, the head of its civil protection and emergencies service said Saturday.
"There are fewer of them, and the end is a lot nearer," the official, Virginia Barcones, told state television network TVE.
The ones remaining were still very "treacherous", she said, however, and "we will need a final push to be done with this horrible situation".
Tokyo, Yokohama strong candidates for relocation of U.N. functions: chief
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says that Tokyo and the nearby port city of Yokohama are "very serious candidates" to host some of the U.N. functions slated for relocation.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Kyodo News in Osaka, Guterres also stressed that as the world's only country to have suffered atomic bombings in war, "Japan has the moral authority to be a strong leadership voice in relation to nuclear disarmament."
The U.N. chief was in Osaka to attend the U.N. Special Day at the World Exposition on Friday. He also attended the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama, which ran for three days through Friday.
China, India watch as Myanmar rebels advance on strategic western frontier
Arakan Army rebels seize 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine and pledge to liberate entire frontier state in western Myanmar.
Rakhine State stands at a pivotal moment as the Arakan Army (AA) edges closer to seizing control of Myanmar’s strategic western frontier region, a shift in power that could redefine both the country’s civil war and regional geopolitics.
While Myanmar’s military government has clawed back territory elsewhere in the country, the AA now controls 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine, which is situated on the Bay of Bengal in the country’s west and shares a border with Bangladesh.
The Maxwell interview knocks Trump’s Bolton revenge tour stop right off the page
Trump’s takeover of Washington and his revenge tour against a former aide are meant to turn the page on Epstein. But, Eric Garcia writes, the Maxwell transcript being released might make that harder
President Donald Trump might have thought he had some distance from the Jeffrey Epstein headlines that were dragging down his poll numbers and made his base turn on him. But, over the last few weeks, the president has seen positive economic news, taken over the streets of Washington D.C. from local police and watched as his FBI raided the home of former adviser John Bolton.
Those stories were dominating the news cycle - until Ghislaine Maxwell made her return.
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