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US strikes Iran-linked sites in Syria amid fears Israel-Hamas war could escalate

Defence secretary says strikes in response to attacks on US troops and warns others against triggering ‘broader regional conflict’

The Guardian - UK

Calls to free Palestinian refugee in Australian custody

The UN and the Palestinian embassy have demanded the release of a stateless Palestinian man who has been in immigration detention for a decade in Australia.

AAP

Gaza before and after: satellite images show destruction following Israeli airstrikes

Newly released images show entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble after strikes from Israel in the war against Hamas

The Guardian - AU

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China shows off a Tibetan boarding school that's part of a system some see as forced assimilation

Village schools have been shuttered across China's Tibet and replaced with centralized boarding schools that critics say represents forced assimilation

The Independent UK

As the Israel-Gaza crisis worsens and the UN remains impotent, what are NZ’s diplomatic options?

Global security involves managing a complex combination of law, ethics and politics. No situation exemplifies this more than what is happening now in Israel and Gaza.

The Conversation

🔴 Live: Israeli army 'extending ground operations tonight' in Gaza, intensifies air strikes

The Israeli army said it will extend "ground operations" in the Gaza Strip on Friday night after significantly intensifying its air strikes on the Palestinian territory. The news came as local authorities announced that internet and phone services have been cut off across the coastal enclave. Earlier, a barrage of…

France 24

Palestinians plead 'stop the bombs' at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be 'obliterated'

“Stop the bombs and save lives!”

The Independent UK

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Why does Biden doubt the Palestinian death count in the Israel-Gaza war?

Rights advocates condemn the US president for denying Palestinian suffering ‘even in death’ during the Israel-Hamas war.

Al Jazeera

Arab nations condemn Israel’s Gaza assault during UN debate

US warned over ‘genocide in Palestine’, as foreign ministers challenge targeting of civilians and international law breaches

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian ambassador urges UN to ‘stop the killing’ as Israel pounds Gaza

Riyad Mansour says certain nations that he did not name were applying a double standard on the war.

Al Jazeera

EXPLAINER: What is Gaza's Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war's death toll?

As the Israel-Hamas war rages, international and local monitoring groups in Gaza have been unable to keep up

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the UN and Israel: the Middle East crisis increases its challenges

Editorial: A nearly eight-decade-old institution is tussling with a very different world from the one in which it was created

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan girls education activist Matiullah Wesa released by Taliban

Wesa, who travelled the country campaigning for girls to have access to education, freed after seven months in prison.

Al Jazeera

Israel says Gaza tank raid is ‘preparation for next stage of combat’

It comes as one UN official says ‘nowhere is safe’ for Palestinian citizens in the territory as aerial bombardment continues

The Independent UK

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The Hindu

Palestinians will choose death over becoming refugees once again: Ambassador of Palestine Adnan Abu Al-Haija

Palestinians will choose death over refugee status, says Palestinian Ambassador to India Adnan Abu Al-Haija says; Israeli bombing of Gaza has caused intense humanitarian crisis. India sent aid, but blockade hinders movement. West silent on destruction, Israeli PM seeks to kill all Palestinians.

The Guardian - UK

Nearly a quarter of Labour MPs have called for ceasefire in Gaza

Forty-nine of party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire or signed a motion calling for one

Newsroom.co.nz

COP28 will be the most consequential UN climate talks yet

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN will play a leading role promoting the switch of food and agriculture practices from being a primary cause of the climate crisis to major solutions, reports Rod Oram

Evening Standard

Satellite images show how neighbourhoods in Gaza have been wiped out by Israeli bombing

Neighborhoods are left in rubble while hospitals struggle to treat the wounded

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The Guardian - UK

Can we trust casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry?

Israel and Joe Biden have shown scepticism about accuracy of rising death toll but others point to historical reliability of data

The Guardian - UK

Stop locking young people out of legal process in climate cases, say experts

Children are particularly vulnerable to climate crisis yet have little say politically or legally in most of world

The Independent UK

European Union leaders seek aid access to Gaza and weigh the plight of EU citizens there

European Union leaders are debating ways to best use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need in Gaza

France 24

Lagos Fashion Week: A celebration of African and Nigerian fashion

As Africa's cultural heavyweights gather in Lagos for its 13th iconic Fashion Week, we speak to the event's founder about a unique UN study that lines the continent up as a major influence on the future of fashion. Also, the march of progress in Dakar tramples over the Senegalese capital's…

The Conversation

Global university rankings now include social impact: African universities are off to a strong start

World university rankings are released towards the end of each year. Institutions globally scramble to see how they have fared. Have they risen or fallen? If so, by how much and in which rankings? Have they maintained their position in an increasingly competitive global higher education landscape?

The Conversation

UN warns that Gaza desperately needs more aid − an emergency relief expert explains why it is especially tough working in Gaza

United Nations agencies on Oct. 24, 2023, pleaded for more aid to be allowed into Gaza, saying that more than 20 times the amount of food, water and medical supplies and other items that are currently reaching people is needed.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Impotent and utterly irrelevant, Europe has been shown up on Israel-Gaza

Diplomacy is full of quips so brutal they can haunt generations of diplomats. For the Foreign Office, the words that still sting are those of Dean Acheson, that harsh Cold War US Secretary of State, who unforgettably said — and this was in 1962 — “Great Britain has lost an…

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