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NewsFeedNearly twenty years after its last paying guests checked out, this abandoned hotel in southern Lebanon is now home to dozens of families displaced by Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.Published On 18 Mar 202418 Mar 2024 Source link

Thodsapol Hongtong is enjoying a smoke with his friends at the Green Party, a venue where recreational cannabis enthusiasts meet in the Thai capital Bangkok to chat and have a good time. But it’s a pastime that may be coming to an end. The 31-year-old influencer, who runs his own cannabis shop, regularly touts recreational marijuana as good for the country’s economy on his online platform Channel Weed Thailand. The booming cannabis sector could be worth $1.2bn by next year, according to an estimate by the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. “Where [else] in the world can we…

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the raid on the hospital – Israel’s fourth since October – has resulted in deaths and injuries.Here’s how things stand on Monday, March 18, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis Israeli forces stormed Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, with a military spokesman claiming Hamas fighters have regrouped inside the medical facility. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the raid on the hospital – Israel’s fourth since October – has resulted in deaths and injuries. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, some 30,000 people – including displaced civilians, wounded patients and medical staff – are trapped inside the hospital amid Israel’s onslaught.…

Law firm behind class action says outcome among most successful legal actions ever taken against the ride-sharing giant.Uber has agreed to pay $178m to settle a lawsuit with taxi and hire car drivers in Australia who say they lost earnings to the ride-hailing app, a law firm has announced. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, which filed the class action on behalf of more than 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and drivers in 2019, said the outcome was one of the most successful legal actions ever taken against the ride-sharing giant. “Uber fought tooth and nail at every point along the way,…

As lawmakers across much of the West debate the extent to which Israel may be hampering the passage of lifesaving aid into Gaza, the weapons exports that underpin much of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave continue to flow. Since the war began, the volume of weapons entering Israel has increased as huge volumes of ordinance are used to flatten areas of Gaza as well as kill, maim and displace its civilian population. “On the one hand, we have this dire humanitarian need, on the other hand, we have this continual supply of weapons to the country Israel, [which is]…

Violent repression in the West Bank is making a bad situation unbearable.With the global media’s attention trained on Gaza since October 7, things have worsened for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and near impossible for journalists to cover. With their movement severely restricted, dozens of Palestinian journalists have been arrested, often held without trial or charge. Contributors:Anan Quzmar – Journalist Assal Rad – Middle East Scholar and Author Mariam Barghouti – Writer and Journalist Oren Ziv – Journalist, +972 Magazine On our radar: Ahead of an upcoming election in India, there has been a slew of movie releases built…

Rafah, Gaza – The loss of nine-year-old Yazan, or Yazouna as his mother called him, hangs like a dark cloud over the el-Kafarna family’s tiny living space. They huddle together in a shelter that Sharif el-Kafarna rigged up out of bits of wood, cardboard and sheeting in front of the third-floor door to the elevator in an UNRWA school in Rafah. It is tidy inside and a string of Ramadan bunting hangs on one wall, but nothing can hide the fact that the family of five sleeps, prays, eats and spends all day in a space about eight metres square…

Thirteen aid trucks reach north Gaza where UNICEF reports one in three children under two are acutely malnourished. Source link

UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from ‘severe’ malnutrition.Nearly five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries. In a note to the UN Security Council on Friday, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being driven by the impact of the conflict on agricultural production, damage to major infrastructure and livelihoods, disruptions to trade, severe price hikes, impediments to humanitarian access and massive displacement. “Without urgent humanitarian assistance and…

Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar for more talks with mediators after Hamas presented a new truce proposal.The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new truce talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. On Saturday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said one in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza are now acutely malnourished, putting more pressure on Israel over the looming famine.…