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Gaza War Rages As Mediators Study Hamas Reply To Truce Plan

Deadly fighting rocked Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken on a Middle East tour pushed for an elusive truce and hostage release deal to end the war raging since October 7.

International Business Times

Israel and Hamas both placed on UN list for violating children's rights

THE United Nations has added Israel’s military, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing for the first time to a list of offenders for…

The National (Scotland)

UN-backed commission accuses Israel and Palestinian groups of war crimes

The COI also says Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity, but Israel rejects ‘anti-Israeli discrimination’.

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Violence against children hit 'extreme levels' in 2023, UN warns

Violence against children reached "extreme levels" in armed conflicts — particularly in Gaza and Sudan — in 2023, a UN report has found.

Radio France Internationale

Report by UN-backed experts cites crimes by Israeli forces, Palestinian militants starting 0ct. 7

U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report published Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence in much of the first three months of the conflict that began on Oct. 7 last year

The Independent UK

Pope Francis To Weigh In On 'Ethical' AI At G7 Summit

Pope Francis will address G7 leaders on Friday on artificial intelligence, an unprecedented appearance that reflects the Vatican's growing interest in the new technology, its risks and rewards.

International Business Times

The Latest | Rockets fired from Lebanon after Israel kills Hezbollah commander

Scores of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, hours after Israeli airstrikes on a southern Lebanese village killed four officials from the militant Hezbollah group including the most senior military commander to be killed since clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border began eight months ago

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Some Syrian refugees risk returning to opposition-held areas as hostility in host Lebanon grows

For more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from their war-torn country into Lebanon

The Independent UK

Azerbaijan accused of media crackdown before hosting Cop29

State reportedly arrested at least 25 journalists and activists in last year as it prepares for September climate summit

The Guardian - UK

🔴 Live: 'Time for haggling to stop' on Gaza truce, Blinken says

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to keep pressing to seal a Gaza ceasefire deal, saying that not all of Hamas’s proposed amendments were acceptable but voicing hope that gaps could be closed. "The longer this goes on, the more people will suffer, and it's time for the…

France 24

Ukraine war briefing: Washington clears Azov brigade for US weapons and training

No evidence of gross human rights violations, says state department; formerly far-right group are heroes in Ukraine for Mariupol’s defence. What we know on day 840

The Guardian - AU

Child Victims Of War Spiked In 2023 Amid Gaza, Sudan Crises: UN Report

Violence against children in armed conflicts reached "extreme levels" in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday.

International Business Times

Tobacco, alcohol, processed foods and fossil fuels ‘kill 2.7m a year in Europe’

World Health Organization report calls on governments to impose tougher regulation of health-harming products

The Guardian - UK

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Surge In Climate Threat: Study

Global emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- are outpacing expectations and putting climate change goals in peril, a major study published on Wednesday found.

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UN says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza

A new U.N. report says violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Hamas and PIJ submit response to UN-backed Gaza ceasefire plan

Qatari, Egyptian mediators say they will ‘examine the response’ after Hamas says it will ‘deal positively’ with plan.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Hunter Biden found guilty, capital city rents fall, UN reports ‘grave violations’ against children in Gaza

US president says he respects the verdict of the court in federal gun law case; hope for renters as capital city costs fall

AAP

PM backs ceasefire as Australia boosts Gaza aid

The federal government has announced $10 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza, as leaders meet for an emergency summit in Jordan on the issue.

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New Government Formed In Restive Haiti

A new government was formed in Haiti on Tuesday, tasked with restoring security and stability in the Caribbean nation that is ravaged by gang violence and political chaos.

The Guardian - US

‘Unprecedented scale’ of violations against children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel, UN report says

More ‘grave violations’ committed in occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else in world, report says

The Independent UK

Blinken says Gaza ceasefire rests on Hamas after UN endorses US resolution

US secretary of state hails ‘hopeful sign’ of endorsement, though plan has not been formally accepted by either Hamas or Israel

Al Jazeera

Will Israel accept the new UN Gaza ceasefire resolution?

While Hamas welcomed the ceasefire resolution passed in UNSC, Israel seems determined to continue the war in Gaza.

The Conversation

The last ozone-layer damaging chemicals to be phased out are finally falling in the atmosphere

Since the 1985 discovery of a hole in the ozone layer countries have agreed and amended treaties to aid its recovery. The most notable of these is the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, which is widely regarded as the most successful environmental agreement ever devised.

Al Jazeera

More than 10 million displaced in war-torn Sudan, IOM says

UN says 7.26 million people fled since war began in April 2023, with 2.83 million already displaced by previous wars.

Al Jazeera

Israeli killings of Gaza civilians during raid may be war crimes: UN

Palestinian officials say Israeli forces killed 274 people during the operation to rescue four captives held in Gaza.

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