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World population is projected to grow from 8.2 billion to a peak of 10.3 billion in 2080s, UN says

A new U.N. report says the world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion

The Independent UK

People in Gaza City trapped in houses and bodies left on streets, say officials

The Israeli army this week urged Palestinians to leave the city and head south

The Guardian - UK

Israel’s attacks on Gaza: A guide

Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, but has conducted five major wars since, killing thousands of Palestinians.

Al Jazeera

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How Israel has brought the Palestinian Authority to the brink of financial collapse

Israel’s ultranationalist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced in May that he would be witholding tax revenues earmarked for Palestine. The decision was made in response to Spain, Ireland and Norway’s recognition of a Palestinian state.

The Conversation

Record Israeli land grab fuels already soaring tension in the West Bank

Israel has reportedly approved its largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, according to a report released on July 3 by Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, Peace Now. The seizure involves more than 12 sq km of land in a key corridor bordering Jordan.

The Conversation

Pakistan says it will expel hundreds of thousands more Afghans in a continued clampdown on migrants

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says authorities will expel hundreds of thousands more Afghans who have been living in Pakistan for years, the latest in a monthslong government clampdown on undocumented migrants

The Independent UK

Elon Musk, father of 12, volunteers his own sperm to seed a colony on Mars

Echoing pronatalism, Musk has also said that he would like to create his own species uniquely bred to survive Mars’s harsh conditions.

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Documents reveal why Australia voted yes in key UN motion on Palestinian membership

Exclusive: Internal advice shows Australia never seriously considered voting against resolution to boost status of Palestinian mission, despite positions of US and Israel

The Guardian - AU

Head of UN migration agency says it reaps funds, but worries about politics loom over aid groups

The head of the U.N. migration agency says that it has taken in hundreds of millions in new funding and diversified its donor base

The Independent UK

Haitian gangs 'unperturbed' by arrival of international force to subdue them

Authorities highlighted that forces took back the country's main hospital, but a report by the Washington Post shows that residents expect swifter action

Latin Times

Wind power expansion meets grassroots resistance in Brazil's Northeast

Wind energy is booming in Brazil's dry and windy Northeast, but some projects are drawing criticism as it becomes clear that certain communities have benefited while others have not

The Independent UK

Israel Presses Operation In Gaza's North

Israeli air strikes pounded parts of Gaza's biggest city on Thursday, Hamas said, after Israel's military declared an end to its operation in an eastern district that saw Gaza City's heaviest combat in months.

International Business Times

Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say

Surgeons who worked in European and al-Aqsa hospitals describe extensive wounds caused by ‘fragmentation’ shrapnel experts say is designed to maximize casualties

The Guardian - US

Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide

Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance.

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Joe Biden under renewed pressure to step aside

Actor George Clooney joins Democratic senator to publicly call on president to consider broader picture. Plus, lawyers gear up to fight for the ocean

International Business Times

Bosnian Muslims Commemorate Srebrenica Genocide

Solemn mourners began gathering in Srebrenica on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less two months after the UN established a memorial day to mark the genocide.

International Business Times

Commercial Goods Trucked Into Gaza After Aid Logjams

As bombs thunder in Gaza, just across the border in southern Israel truck driver Itzik waits in a barbed-wire protected parking lot for his delivery to clear inspection into the hunger-stricken territory.

The Independent UK

Israeli military tells all residents of Gaza City to evacuate

Israel military drops thousands of leaflets ordering evacuation to south of Gaza

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Iraq Sentences Wife Of IS Leader To Death

Iraqi court sentences al-Baghdadi's wife to death for crimes against Yazidis. Concerns over due process and accountability persist.

The Guardian - UK

Millions of lives upended as Sudan’s civil war leads to displacement crisis

Country has largest internally displaced population on record, with 7 million uprooted since fighting began in April 2023

International Business Times

Israeli Army Orders Evacuation Of Battle-torn Gaza City

Israel's army dropped thousands of leaflets over war-torn Gaza City on Wednesday urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive through the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. The leaflets, addressed to "everyone in Gaza City", set out designated escape routes and warned that the urban area would "remain…

International Business Times

Ghost Cyprus Resort Bears Scars Of Half-century Of Division

Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy.

International Business Times

Water Shortages Worsen As Funding Dries Up For Northwest Syria Displaced

Hussein al-Naasan struggles to provide water for his family in the scorching summer, as aid funds have dried up and conditions deteriorated in impoverished displacement camps in Syria's rebel-held northwest.

International Business Times

Paul Kagame: Rwanda's Polarising Strongman

A visionary hero who ended the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and brought peace to a traumatised country, or a despot who rules through fear and repression.

The Independent UK

UN experts: Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan troops are in Congo operating with the M23 rebel group

U.N. experts say that between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwanda government forces are deployed in neighboring eastern Congo, operating alongside the M23 rebel group which has been making major advances

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