Iceland is bracing for a potential volcanic eruption. What is likely to happen and what are the risks? (www.cnn.com)
What do we know about forced labour in Xinjiang? (www.theguardian.com)
British fighters in Israel’s military: Is it legal? (www.declassifieduk.org)
Hundreds of Britons have joined the Israel Defence Force, which is illegally occupying Palestinian land and has killed thousands of children in Gaza. Now lawyers are asking: Is their recruitment lawful?
Which islands will become uninhabitable due to climate change first? (www.livescience.com)
BP and Spotify bought carbon credits at risk of link to forced Uyghur labour in China (feddit.de)
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Gaza City: Babies dying in hospital amid scenes of devastation, UN says (news.un.org)
Meanwhile on Monday, the UN flag flew at half-mast at the Organisation’s offices around the world in memory of the 101 staff members of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s retaliation for Hamas’ massacres perpetrated in southern Israel on 7 October.
Hamas denies refusing fuel from Israel for Al-Shifa Hospital (www.reuters.com)
Israel-Palestine, lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip (www.unicef.org)
The Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital was damaged again yesterday in an attack, including lifesaving equipment, according to reports. Another children’s hospital in the north has stopped operating due to damage and a lack of fuel, and a specialist maternity hospital is in desperate need of fuel to keep functioning....
EU negotiators agree on historic law to restore Europe’s nature (www.euractiv.com)
Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament agreed on a landmark new law to restore at least 20% of Europe’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians (www.theguardian.com)
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
Germany approves global minimum corporate tax (www.reuters.com)
Multinational firms will have to pay a minimum of 15% tax on all of the profits they make worldwide, regardless of where the profits are generated.
India and Pakistan choked by heavy smog, leaving thousands sick (www.abc.net.au)
Brotherhood Alliance rewriting Myanmar's war narrative (asiatimes.com)
Over 10,500 Killed in One Month as Israel Continues its War on Palestine (unicornriot.ninja)
The online hate and conspiracies driving a new wave of antisemitism | Ben Judah (www.independent.co.uk)
There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah
Happy Diwali 2023 Messages and Quotes: Wish Your Family, Friends, Near Ones On the Festival of Lights (www.timesnownews.com)
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Protesters clash with police after Socialist Party deal confirmed (www.euronews.com)
Australia offers climate refuge to Tuvalu citizens (www.bbc.com)
First-ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct (www.bbc.com)
The Philippines and China report a new maritime confrontation near a contested South China Sea shoal (apnews.com)
Israel officials accuse Gaza reporters of knowing about Hamas attack (www.bbc.com)
Former Catalan politician shot in face in Madrid (www.reuters.com)
Romanian SMR Nuclear Plant Project with NuScale Technology Moves Forward Despite US Setback (www.romaniajournal.ro)
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5,500 women in Gaza set to give birth ‘in race against death’, UN official says (news.un.org)
Laila Baker, Regional Director for the Arab States at the sexual and reproductive health agency, said she fears for the fate of new mothers and their children amid the “loss of complete humanity” in Gaza....