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File - Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas. Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC
Volker Trk tells Jeremy Bowen there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. ... ... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) BBC News
Famine   Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Daniel kahneman game changers empiricus 01 Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner who wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow, dies aged 90
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioral economics, has died. He was 90. He died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a... (photo: Creative Commons / Renzo Fedri ) CNN
Daniel Kahneman   Economy   Photos   Psychology  
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday Jan. 7, 2024 Israel seeks new date for cancelled US meeting on Rafah offensive plans
Israel has asked the United States to reschedule a meeting to discuss its military operation in Gaza’s Rafah days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cance... (photo: AP / Ronen Zvulun) Al Jazeera
Gaza   Israel   Photos   US States  
Palestinians search for bodies at a house hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Protecting Palestinians a moral imperative, Pentagon chief tells Israeli counterpart
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday it was a moral and strategic imperative to protect Palestinian civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas and that th... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) CyprusMail
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Mideast Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Image showing Lumley street photography, this is a view of the Lumley Round about in Freetown Sierra Leone, January 28, 2019. North Africa bears the brunt of Europe’s externalisation policies: Analysts
Tunis, Tunisia – Thirty-two-year-old Edna Mossay left Freetown, Sierra Leone, with her four children three years ago. | “It’s not easy there. There’s no food, no ... (photo: Creative Commons / Victor turay) Al Jazeera
Africa   Europe   Migration   Photos  
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the 26th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Starlink network expands to Yemen, Sudan by black market terminal sales
ALBAWABA – Despite Elon Musk’s repeated remarks on SpaceX’s Starlink service being worldwide, the company declared that it disables terminals when they are utilized... (photo: AP / John Raoux) Al Bawaba
Elon Musk   Photos   Starlink   Trading   Wikipedia: Starlink  
File - Palestinians line up for food during the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, November 13, 2023. Starvation: Anatomy of ‘a very cruel, slow death’
People in Gaza and Sudan face famine on a catastrophic scale, the UN and humanitarian organisations are warning. | In Gaza, 27 people – 23 of them children – have sta... (photo: AP / Hatem Ali) Al Jazeera
Human Rights   Photos   United Nations   World Food Programme  
Israeli soldiers are seen in Balata, a Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After narrowly backing Israel’s military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent cur... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) Gallup
Gaza   Israel   Photos   US States  
Chokri Belaid  Tunisia sentences four to death for 2013 murder of politician Chokri Belaid
A court in Tunisia has sentenced four people to death and two to life imprisonment for their role in the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid 11 years ago. | ... (photo: Creative Commons / Sami Mlouhi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sami_Mlouhi) Al Jazeera
Chokri Belaid   Photos   Politics   Tunisia  
Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle on Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. (AP Photo) Chinese workers killed in suicide bomb blast as Pakistan grapples with attacks on Beijing’s interests
Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror atta... (photo: AP) CNN
China   Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism  
Palestinians look at a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. UN expert says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, calls for arms embargo
GENEVA: A United Nations expert told the global body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday that she believed that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since Oct. 7 amounted... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) Gulf News
Gaza War   Human Rights   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
FILE - Senegalese youth gather around pirogues on the beach at dusk in Fass Boye, Senegal, Aug. 29, 2023. Officials in Senegal say at least two dozen people have died off Senegals northern coast and many were injured when a boat carrying migrants capsized. The boat was bound for Europe and capsized Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 near the town of Saint-Louis where bodies washed up on shore. UN report charts lethal cost of migration over past decade
More than 63,000 people died or disappeared on migration routes around the world over the last decade, with drowning the biggest cause of death, according to the United N... (photo: AP / Felipe Dana, File) Al Jazeera
EU Migrant Crisis   Human Rights   Photos   Refugees   Wikipedia: International Organization for Migration  
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, men work at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the Iraqi city of Basra. Iraq is rich in oil, but protesters say they dont see the fruits of this wealth. Iraq blames foreign companies for ongoing closure of oil pipeline
The Iraqi oil ministry said companies operating in the Kurdistan region have failed to submit contracts for revision. | Iraq’s oil ministry has blamed foreign oil compa... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani, File) Offshore Technology
Energy   Iraq   Oil   Photos  
Demonstrators hold placards after Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, released a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Two High Court judges said they would grant Assange a new appeal unless U.S. authorities give further assurances about what will happen to him. The case has been adjourned until May 20. UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty
A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't... (photo: AP / Alberto Pezzali) The Malta Independent
Julian Assange   Photos   Press Freedom   WikiLeaks   Wikipedia: Julian Assange  
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023 Netanyahu: 'Israel Will Not Submit to Delusional Demands of Hamas'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to push forward with his campaign to eliminate the Hamas militant group, while also criticizing a U.N. Security Co... (photo: AP / Menahem Kahana) Beijing News
Gaza   Hamas   Israel   Photos  
Riyad H. Mansour (at podium), Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, briefs the press on the adoption of Resolution 2728 (2024). The resolution demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address medical and other humanitarian needs in the entire Gaza Strip. UN demand for Gaza cease-fire provokes strongest clash between US and Israel since war began
The United Nations Security Council on Monday issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the vote. Israel responde... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) Independent Online
Gaza   Israel   Photos   United Nations  
File - Rohingya refugees react after being rescued in Teknaf near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 16, 2020. Bangladesh's coast guard has rescued 382 starving Rohingya refugees who had been drifting at sea for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia, officials said Thursday. Conflict, climate, corruption drive Southeast Asia people trafficking: UN
Conflict, climate and the demand for low-paid labour in countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, with corruption as a “major enabler”, are driving the growth of the p... (photo: AP / Suzauddin Rubel) Al Jazeera
Immigration   Photos   Refugees   United Nations  
Image showing a young South Sudanese girl next to a water distribution point, South Sudan, August 14, 2021. South Sudan on the brink after oil exports derailed by Sudan’s civil war
Violence and insecurity could worsen in South Sudan after one of its key oil pipelines to international markets, which passes through neighbouring Sudan, was damaged last... (photo: Creative Commons / Lomoraronald / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) Al Jazeera
Africa   Oil   Photos   South Sudan  
Palestinians inspect the damage of residential buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 24, 2024. No let-up in Gaza war despite UN resolution
Israeli troops battled Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire"... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) Oman Observer
Gaza War   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
ABC Brisbane Centre, Empty streets during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia Australia’s ABC staff’s concerns over Gaza bias revealed
Staff at Australia’s national broadcaster warned that its coverage of the war in Gaza relied too much on Israeli sources and used language that “favoured the Israeli ... (photo: Creative Commons / Kgbo) Al Jazeera
Australia   Gaza   Israel   Photos