Thailand urges bilateral talks with Cambodia, open to regional mediation
Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman tells Al Jazeera direct talks with Cambodia are priority as deadly clashes continue.
Mark Carney urges Israel to give up control of Gaza aid flow – Politico
Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland’s record-breaking heatwave
After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.
Loneliness is a global health threat and a political failure
Social disconnection is as deadly as smoking and heart disease. The WHO now has a plan to help countries fight back.
Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say
Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef
Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children, United Nations and humanitarian agencies say.
“We are now facing a dire situation, that we are running out of therapeutic supplies,” Salim Oweis, a spokesperson for Unicef in Amman, Jordan, told Reuters on Thursday, saying supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.
Continue reading...Russia launches record attacks on Ukraine as country struggles to defend itself
Moscow’s drone production is improving, leading to rise in salvoes and civilian casualties
Night by night, the blitz develops. Russian drones, decoys, cruise and ballistic missiles – increasingly aimed at a single city or location – are being launched in record numbers into Ukraine, straining the country’s ability to defend itself and raising questions about how well it can endure another winter of war.
One day earlier this month, 728 drones and 13 missiles were launched, mostly at the western city of Lutsk, home to many Ukrainian airfields. Large salvoes now come more frequently: every three to five days, rather than every 10 to 12, and civilian casualties are rising: 232 people were killed in June, the highest monthly level for three years.
Continue reading...Resident doctors begin five days of strikes in England over pay – UK politics live
The BMA says resident doctors have seen their pay fall by a much greater amount in real terms since 2008-09 than the rest of the population
The Conservatives have accused Labour of having “opened the door” to fresh resident doctors’ strikes with a “spineless surrender to union demands last year”.
Shadow health secretary Stuart Andrew said: “They handed out inflation-busting pay rises without reform, and now the BMA are back for more.
It is hard to believe that, yet again, we are going into industrial action by our resident (formerly junior) doctors. It has only been a year since the last round of strikes and the length of this one – five days at two weeks’ notice over the summer when people are away – is designed to send a message.
Consultants were, by and large, supportive of the previous rounds of strikes. There is a recognition our residents have it harder than we did. There is more financial hardship than there used to be, their salaries don’t go as far as ours did when we were training, and they have amassed more student debt.
Continue reading...Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah had been released from French prison earlier Friday after 40 years in jail.
Trump cranks up distraction machine but focus refuses to budge from Epstein
The president is a master of ‘look over there’ – but not when his supporters’ core beliefs about the ‘deep state’ are in play
Donald Trump displayed the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Sitting in the Oval Office, he was asked by a reporter about the justice department’s hunt for evidence about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I don’t really follow that too much,” he said. “It’s sort of a witch-hunt.”
And then the pivot: “The witch-hunt you should be talking about is that they caught President Obama absolutely cold.” Trump was claiming a plot by Barack Obama to rig the 2016 election, accusing his predecessor of “treason”. For good measure he warned: “Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.”
Continue reading...I Signed the Petition
I Signed the Petition captures a filmmaker’s call with a friend after publicly backing the cultural boycott of Israel.
Philippine court strikes down landmark impeachment bid against Sara Duterte – BBC
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Philippines top court blocks impeachment bid against Sara Duterte
Duterte faced impeachment over accusations of misusing public funds and threatening to kill the President.
Israel is trying to hijack the Baloch struggle
A new Israeli-linked initiative exposes how liberation movements are being co-opted for colonial aims.
Russian rocket launches Iran satellite into space: Iranian media
The satellite was designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers, according to reports.
Al Jazeera reporters face hunger in Gaza
Our reporters in Gaza are struggling to find food because of Israel's blockade on vital aid.
Impeachment probe of Philippine VP Sara Duterte voided by Supreme Court
Duterte is a strong contender for the 2028 presidency, which President Marcos cannot contest due to a single-term limit.
Albanese government to lift ban on working with PwC Australia as police investigation continues
Exclusive: Finance minister to consider feedback from senators before making decision final
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The finance department has found consultancy firm PwC Australia is an ethically sound company and recommended the end of a long-term ban on it working with the government, despite an ongoing police investigation into the company.
But the firm, which sold its entire government consulting business for just $1 at the height of a scandal over the misuse of confidential Treasury information, will not be able to tender for government work until at least 2028 due to a non-compete clause with its spin-off, Scyne Advisory.
Continue reading...Germany sees anti-Pride events and restricts rainbow flags ahead of LGBTQ+ parties – NPR
NatWest investors given £1.5bn weeks after full privatisation
Profits rise 4.4% at lender, which plans to distribute interim dividend of 9.5p a share on top of fresh £750m buyback
NatWest will give a further £1.5bn to shareholders only weeks after the UK government sold the final part of its stake in the once bailed-out bank.
The high street lender on Friday announced plans to distribute an interim dividend of 9.5p a share, worth a collective £768m, on top of a fresh £750m share buyback in the second half of the year.
Continue reading...‘City of singles’: cosmopolitan prewar Paris’s ‘crazy years’ brought to life
Database of 8m handwritten census entries paints portrait of city that was hub for intellectuals, artists and young, single people
In 1926, James Joyce was working on his novel Finnegans Wake while living in a spacious apartment in the 7th arrondissement of Paris with his partner, Nora Barnacle, and their two adult children, Giorgio and Lucia.
Joyce’s neighbours in the elegant stone building at 2 Square de Robiac included a Syrian family whose three children had an English nanny called Jessie, Russian émigrés, an Egyptian industrialist, and the US writers William and Elizabeth Placida Mahl.
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