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Uri Berliner quits broadcaster days after being suspended over essay accusing network of lacking viewpoint diversity.A senior editor at a public broadcaster in the United States who accused his employer of liberal bias, igniting heated debate about standards in journalism, has resigned. Uri Berliner, an editor with National Public Radio (NPR), announced his resignation on Wednesday just over a week after he published an essay accusing the outlet of being fixated on race and identity and lacking “viewpoint diversity”. “I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to…

Abdoulaye Bathily says ‘lack of political will and good faith’ on the part of Libyan leaders are making UN governance efforts in Libya futile.The UN’s special envoy for Libya says he is his resigning as the world body cannot successfully support the country’s political transition when its leaders put their own interests above finding a solution. “I tendered my resignation to the secretary-general,” Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily told reporters on Tuesday after briefing the Security Council on the situation in the North African country. The UN support mission in Libya (UNSMIL) “made a lot of efforts under my leadership over…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini tells UN Security Council that children in Gaza are being ‘killed, injured, and starved’ and warns that ‘a man-made famine’ is taking hold. Source link

At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on homes in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza City since Tuesday.Here’s how things stand on Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on homes in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza City since Tuesday afternoon. Separately, at least seven law enforcement officials tasked with protecting aid and two bystanders have been killed in an Israeli army attack in Gaza City, Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday. Fighters in Gaza continue to launch rockets into southern Israel. Two missiles fired from the…

A torrential downpour has left Dubai’s highways clogged by floodwaters and passengers were urged to stay away from the airport as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains. The United Arab Emirates witnessed unprecedented rainfall with 254mm (10 inches) falling in Al Ain on Tuesday in less than 24 hours, according to the National Centre of Meteorology. That was the most since records began in 1949, before the country was established in 1971. Although the heavy rains had eased by late Tuesday, disruptions were continuing on Wednesday with Dubai’s flagship Emirates airlines suspending check-in for passengers departing Dubai airport…

In July 2020, the Israeli army stormed Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank and arrested Nada* while she was attending a cultural event. She was accused of plotting “acts of terrorism” against Israeli forces and sentenced to 20 months in prison. But Nada says she neither committed a crime nor engaged in acts of ‘‘resistance” that would provoke her arrest. “If you are Palestinian then you are always living in danger,” Nada, 24, told Al Jazeera. “You don’t have to do any acts of resistance. As a Palestinian, I’m always thinking that the occupation forces see us all as…

At least 14 Israeli soldiers are wounded in an attack launched from Lebanon as regional tensions escalate.The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military facility in northern Israel that wounded at least 14 soldiers, saying it was carried out in retaliation for Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah members. The Iran-aligned group said it launched “a combined attack with guided missiles and explosive drones on a new military reconnaissance command centre in Arab al-Aramshe,” an Arab-majority village of northern Israel near the Lebanese border. The Israeli military said 14 of its soldiers were wounded in…

PodcastPodcast, The TakeAs the world watches Israel and Iran’s tit-for-tat attacks, Palestinians in the West Bank live another dim reality. While Palestinians in the occupied West Bank watched Iranian missiles flying overhead en route to Israeli targets, they also had to contend with a different kind of violence on the ground. Armed Israeli settlers stormed Palestinian villages on Saturday night. The attacks are part of a wider escalation of violence Palestinians in the West Bank have faced since October 7. In this episode:  Episode credits: This episode was produced by Sari el-Khalili and Fahrinisa Campana with our host Malika Bilal.…

US president blasts rival Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist on visit to key battleground state.United States President Joe Biden has renewed calls for higher taxes on the rich and criticised his rival Donald Trump as being out of touch with working-class Americans during a nostalgia-fuelled visit to his hometown. Kicking off a three-day tour of the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Biden sought to draw a distinction between his working-class roots and Trump’s privileged upbringing and lifestyle at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “When I look at the economy, I don’t look at it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I…

As regional tensions run high, Iran has paraded drones, missiles and soldiers to show it is ready for a response from Israel after launching an unprecedented attack on its archenemy. Iran carried out its first-ever direct attack on Israel at the weekend in response to an April 1 air strike on the consular building of Iran’s embassy in Syria. Iran’s attack “brought down the glory of the Zionist regime [Israel]”, President Ebrahim Raisi said at a military base on the outskirts of Tehran on Wednesday. “This operation showed that our armed forces are ready,” he said in a speech to…