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Israel-Hamas war: Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah-linked sites in Lebanon – as it happened

This blog has closed. You can read all our coverage of the Israel-Hamas war here and our latest full report here

The Guardian - AU

The UN Security Council is trying for a fifth time to adopt a resolution on the Israel-Hamas war

After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council is trying for a fifth time to come up with a resolution on the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent UK

Israeli soldiers raid al-Shifa hospital in escalation of Gaza offensive

Head of the World Health Organization calls decision to send troops into hospital ‘totally unacceptable’

The Guardian - UK

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Israeli forces raid Gaza’s largest hospital in ‘targeted operation’

Israel claims Hamas are concealing military operations in the facility where the UN says thousands of patients, internally displaced people and medics are staying

The Independent UK

‘Paying in lives’: health of billions at risk from global heating, warns report

Inaction on the climate crisis is ‘costing lives and livelihoods’ due to extreme heat, food insecurity and infectious diseases, say scientists

The Guardian - UK

Morning Mail: social cohesion hits 16-year low, Russian oligarch asset flight, Braverman hits back at Sunak

Index shows cost of living is placing a strain on Australian togetherness, while our podcast asks how banks are still making big profits despite the pressure

The Guardian - AU

Medics ‘dig mass grave’ at Gaza’s largest hospital – where hundreds are trapped inside by intense fighting

Health officials in the Hamas-run territory says bodies need to be buried as they can’t be moved – while lives of dozens of babies are in the balance as fuel runs out for incubators

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Lisa Nandy slammed for 'wilful attempt to mislead' public on SNP ceasefire motion

A SENIOR Labour MP has came under attack for claiming that the SNP have withdrawn their amendment to the King’s speech in the House…

The National (Scotland)

The Republican field is getting smaller. Here's what that means for beating Trump

Tim Scott and Mike Pence have dropped their bids for president, and the next GOP debate in less than a month will likely feature an even smaller stage, but Trump is still the far-and-away frontrunner.

WEKU

OPINION - I have never seen anything like this — babies are dying in Gaza and we need a ceasefire now

Never, in all of my 20 years working in the charity sector, have I witnessed a more desperate humanitarian situation than the one that is unfolding in Gaza right now.

Evening Standard

Winter rains bring further suffering to besieged people in Gaza

Rain and cold will lead to further increase in waterborne diseases, bacterial infections and diarrhoea in children, says WHO

The Guardian - UK

The UN's Guterres calls for an 'ambition supernova' as climate progress stays slow

"Inch by inch progress will not do," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. A new report found that nations' plans still fall far short of what's needed.

WEKU

Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital becomes focus of conflicting narratives

Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in…

France 24

Lives of dozens of babies in Gaza’s largest hospital hang in balance: ‘The risks are really high’

Concern grows over fate of patients at al-Shifa with no fuel – as UN says just one hospital in nothern Gaza, al-Awda, still has electricity and is able to receive the wounded and sick

The Independent UK

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UK considering using air and sea routes to bring aid to Gaza, says minister

Andrew Mitchell told the Commons the Government was considering its options for transporting aid into the wartorn Palestinian territory.

Radio France Internationale

World 'failing to get a grip' on planet-heating emissions, UN report claims

The world is "failing to get a grip" on climate change, the UN warned Tuesday, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade. Climate plans will cut emissions 2 percent by 2030, instead of 43 percent goal, it said.

The Conversation

Projects funded by the World Bank Group's private sector arm fuel violent conflict – it's time to reform the system

To what extent does private investment help developing countries to reduce conflict and violence and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Independent UK

A rights group accuses UNESCO of turning a blind eye to forcible evictions at Cambodia's Angkor Wat

The human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticized UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Fighting traps hundreds in Gaza’s largest hospital

Patients and medics in ‘desperate situation’ at al-Shifa as Israeli tanks and snipers encircle the complex. Plus, the menu items that mystify us but we order them anyway

The Guardian - UK

Palestinians digging mass graves inside al-Shifa hospital, health official says

Another 200,000 people flee northern Gaza as fighting rages around territory’s biggest health facility

The Guardian - US

The past years were the hottest on record. Yet we’re on track to burn more fossil fuels

A new report says many countries are increasing their oil and gas production. Delegates to Cop28 must confront this crisis

The Independent UK

UN chief calls for an "ambition supernova" as nations make minor progress on climate action

Countries’ climate action plans are still far behind what’s needed to curb human-caused warming and limit the devastating effects of extreme heat, storms and droughts, but some nations have taken marginal steps toward slashing emissions, a United Nations analysis of national plans found Tuesday

The Guardian - UK

Standup and be counted: Eddie Izzard and the comics who took politics by storm

Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn’t be the first standup to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes

The Independent UK

Guyana tells UN court that Venezuelan referendum on territorial dispute is an 'existential threat'

Guyana has urged judges at the United Nations’ highest court to call a halt to parts of a Venezuelan referendum about a territorial dispute between the South American neighbors

The Independent UK

Live updates | Thousands more flee northern Gaza as Israeli troops battle Palestinian militants

Fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in northern Gaza caused another 200,000 people to flee south in the past 10 days, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday

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