LIVE: Israel ramps up Gaza City assault, kills children in strike on school
Israeli forces continue to carry out attacks on Gaza's main urban centre, with two children killed in a strike on tent.
‘We lost everything twice’: Afghan returnees struggle after earthquake
Afghans deported from Pakistan and Iran face homelessness after recent earthquake destroyed their homes and livelihoods.
Palestinian students’ dreams are shattered after US withdraws visas to study in US – CNN
IDF warns aid workers only hospitals are protected sites in northern Gaza
Israeli military says aid infrastructure could be targeted after order to ‘all Gaza residents and inhabitants’ to leave
Humanitarian workers in northern Gaza have been repeatedly warned by the Israeli military that only hospitals will be considered protected sites and all other aid infrastructure could be targeted.
In messages and conversations with aid workers in recent days seen by the Guardian, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an order to “all Gaza residents and inhabitants” to evacuate Gaza City, the biggest urban centre in the territory, applied “to all humanitarian locations [there], except hospitals” and warned that “to defeat Hamas [Israeli troops] will operate … with great force”.
Continue reading...‘This is their attempt to silence him’: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial
Held since 2020, India’s most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regime
“There is indeed something about captivity that makes one feel like a state of somewhere between life and death,” wrote Umar Khalid in June in a letter penned as his fifth year languishing behind bars approached.
Few understand the purgatory of jail like Khalid. For five years – since his arrest in September 2020 under a draconian terrorism law – he has remained India’s most prominent political prisoner, to many a potent symbol of the systematic crushing of dissent under the dominant Hindu nationalist regime of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.
Continue reading...Palestinian students’ dreams are shattered after US withdraws visas to study in US – Yahoo News Singapore
Portugal to recognise a Palestinian state
Nine other countries, including France and the UK, also plan to recognise Palestinian statehood next week.
Key oceans treaty crosses threshold to come into force
Sixty states have ratified a global treaty to protect the oceans - it will become law in January.
Ted Cruz breaks with Republicans, slams ‘mafioso’ threats to broadcasters
The US senator has labelled Carr's comments 'dangerous as hell' and something 'right out of Goodfellas'.
Republican senator says US TV regulator acted like ‘mafioso’ on Jimmy Kimmel
The Texas senator affected a mobster accent to criticise how ABC was pressed to take action on the late-night host.
Republican senator says US TV regulator acted like ‘mafioso’ on Jimmy Kimmel
The Texas senator affected a mobster accent to criticise how ABC was pressed to take action on the late-night host.
Sudan: RSF drone strike kills dozens in Darfur – dw.com
- Sudan: RSF drone strike kills dozens in Darfur dw.com
- ‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan The New York Times
- Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city The Guardian
- More than 70 civilians killed in attack on mosque in Darfur’s el-Fasher Al Jazeera
- El-Fasher: Drone strike on Sudan mosque kills 78, medic tells BBC BBC
Chinese executive jailed for 25 years in US for trafficking fentanyl chemicals
Qingzhou Wang of Amarvel Biotech accused by prosecutors of turning chemical company into ‘pipeline of poison’
A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has said.
Qingzhou Wang, 37, principal executive of Amarvel Biotech, a company based in Wuhan, and Yiyi Chen, 33, the firm’s marketing manager, were convicted in New York in February of fentanyl precusor importation and money laundering.
Continue reading...US forces strike third alleged drug vessel killing three, Trump says
Venezuela has condemned a series of strikes by US forces in the Caribbean targeting alleged drug traffickers.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,304
Here are the key events on day 1,304 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Sikh grandmother’s arrest by US immigration sparks community anger
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old who unsuccessfully applied for asylum, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member – The New York Times
- Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member The New York Times
- Nato intercepts Russian fighter jets on ‘reckless’ violation of Estonian airspace The Guardian
- Russia ‘testing’ NATO with warplane incursion, Estonia warns politico.eu
- 'Putin's jets over Estonia' and MP calls two-child benefit cap 'spiteful' BBC
- NATO intercepts three Russian jets over Estonia’s airspace CNN
Trump says US hit another ‘drug vessel’, Venezuela slams ‘undeclared war’
US president says American forces struck the vessel in the Southern Command's 'area of responsibility', killing three.
Trump again asks supreme court to end protections for Venezuelans in US
Justice department urges court to overturn ruling that Kristi Noem lacked authority to end TPS program
The Trump administration asked the US supreme court on Friday to intervene for the second time in a case involving its bid to end deportation protections the former president, Joe Biden, granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States.
The justice department filed an emergency application asking the justices to lift a federal judge’s ruling that the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, lacked the authority to end the protections for Venezuelans under the temporary protected status, or TPS, program.
Continue reading...BHP blames ‘coal tax’ for job layoffs. But there’s obvious reasons coalmines aren’t as profitable anymore
Rising wages and costs of having to dig deeper for minerals – not royalty payments – are behind job cuts in a sector that appears to be in decline
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Australia’s big miners are not averse to a political fight.
Consider the biggest miner of them all: BHP.
Jonathan Barrett is business editor of Guardian Australia
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