Israel calls on famine-stricken residents to flee and targets more high-rises in Gaza City – Politico

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  1. Israel calls on famine-stricken residents to flee and targets more high-rises in Gaza City  Politico
  2. LIVE: Israeli attacks on school, tents and homes kill at least 21 in Gaza  Al Jazeera
  3. Palestinians Begin a Perilous Flight From Gaza City  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Israeli military warns Gaza City residents to leave, bombs high-rise tower  Reuters
  5. Inside the IDF's Massive Preparations to Take Over Gaza City  Haaretz
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Postal traffic into US plunges by more than 80% after Trump ends exemption

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Dozens of operators have suspended service to the US until a solution is implemented on parcels worth $800 or less

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.

The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the US eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” for lower-value parcels.

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West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’

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Little known about decision, although Hanks, who has advocated for military memorials, also voted for Biden

In Forrest Gump, the title character, played by Tom Hanks, receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Lyndon B Johnson.

In real life, it appears Hanks will no longer receive another military honor.

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Trump quietly preparing to travel next month to South Korea, where he could sit down with China’s leader – CNN

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  1. Trump quietly preparing to travel next month to South Korea, where he could sit down with China’s leader  CNN
  2. Donald Trump-Xi Jinping bilateral on cards? Report says meeting likely in South Korea; US president 'quie  Times of India
  3. The countdown to a Trump-Xi summit  Brookings
  4. Donald Trump ‘quietly preparing’ to visit South Korea, may meet Xi Jinping there: Report  Hindustan Times
  5. Trump may meet Jinping in S Korea in Oct amid tariff war: Report | S Korean Prez LJ Myung invited Trump for APEC | Inshorts  Inshorts
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Shabana Mahmood expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels to barracks

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New home secretary is expected to unveil plans to use military sites as Labour seeks to harden immigration policy

Shabana Mahmood is expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks as Labour seeks to harden its immigration policy amid rising numbers of crossings in the channel.

The new home secretary is reportedly set to announce the use of Ministry of Defence sites to house people after a wave of protests outside migrant accommodation over the summer.

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More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period – The Guardian

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  1. More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period  The Guardian
  2. Gaza is city of “fear, flight and funerals,” says UN official  Vatican News
  3. The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns  UN News
  4. In Gaza, teachers find a way to educate even without classrooms  The Globe and Mail
  5. One child killed every hour in Gaza war: Save the Children  Middle East Eye
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion

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The Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza, won the runner-up Silver Lion

US indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children.

Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war. In the end, the film directed by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion.

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WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership

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Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

The head of the Western Australian Museum has told staff that burning fossil fuels is something “almost all of us are guilty of in one way or another” in an email defending the institution’s renewed research partnership with Woodside.

The museum’s chief executive, Alec Coles, sent the email to staff before a Woodside-sponsored August open day at the Maritime Museum – one of WA Museum’s seven locations. It came amid public criticism of the extension of the “longstanding collaboration”, in which the gas company supports the museum’s biodiversity research along the WA coastline.

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