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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

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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

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 Hindu

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Evening Standard

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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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…

France 24

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.

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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…

The Independent UK

Gaza under siege: The 25-mile-long strip with 2.3 million ‘prisoners’

Universities and mosques have been targeted by airstrikes in the latest conflict to erupt between Israel and Palestine

The Independent UK

‘Released all restraints’: What would a ground invasion of Gaza look like?

Previous incursions have caused thousands of civilian casualties. This time could be worse, Richard Hall writes

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer warned: More will quit Labour unless you speak for Palestinians

The Labour leader and his deputy Angela Rayner met a dozen MPs and peers on Wednesday afternoon in a bid to calm tensions

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Tanks go in as Israel warns invasion of Gaza is imminent

Netanyahu sends in hardware to ‘prepare battleground’ as ministers debate evacuation of trapped Britons

WEKU

Israel incursion into Gaza targeted Hamas leaders to prepare for 'next stages of war'

The Israeli military said the overnight raid involved tanks and troops and killed Hamas leaders. Meanwhile, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 7,000 as fuel supplies reach a crisis point.

The Guardian - UK

I run the UN agency for Palestine refugees. History will judge us all if there is no ceasefire in Gaza

The Strip is becoming the graveyard of a population trapped between war, siege and deprivation: we need a humanitarian ceasefire, says the commissioner-general of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini

Al Jazeera

How the US has used its veto power at the UN in support of Israel

The US has used its veto power at least 34 times to block UN Security Council resolutions that were critical of Israel.

The Independent UK

Before and after aerial pictures show deadly Gaza destruction in full

Entire neighbourhoods destroyed in retaliation for attack launched by Hamas on Israel on 7 October

The Independent UK

Pakistan sets up deportation centers to hold migrants in the country illegally starting next week

Pakistan is setting up deportation centers to hold migrants living in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans

The Independent UK

Many in Niger are suffering under coup-related sanctions. Junta backers call it a worthy sacrifice

Families in Niger say they are struggling after economic sanctions imposed in response to a military coup three months ago

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