Author: ALJAZEERA

Benghazi, Libya – It happened in the middle of the night, as most destructive operations carried out without the consent of the local population are. In March 2023, an area of Benghazi’s historical centre including several buildings of Italian colonial heritage, was razed to the ground. So unexpected was the operation conducted by the Libyan military, that even Benghazi’s mayor was taken by surprise. The raid on the historic city centre was carried out to clear the debris left behind by past and ongoing conflicts, and to clear the way for a new, modern centre. The reconstruction has not been…

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son marries on Friday in a lavish ceremony that has been a hot talking point at home and abroad, with his father’s $260bn-conglomerate Reliance taking to social media to heavily publicise the event. Reliance’s efforts, coupled with posts from a host of Bollywood stars and coverage in media, have helped whip up public interest in the wedding, overshadowing some critical social media posts that have questioned the opulence at a time of growing inequality in India. Ambani’s youngest son Anant, 29, is marrying his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant, 29, in a star-studded ceremony in Mumbai that will…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Local authorities say dozens of bodies, mostly of ‘families, women, and children’, recovered in Gaza City after partial Israeli withdrawal from Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood. Source link

The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-party platform in a security breach, the company has said, as cyberattacks against businesses, schools and health systems continue to spread globally. The breach, which was announced by the company on Friday, took place largely over five months in 2022. It hit customers of AT&T’s mobile customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as its landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers. Approximately 109 million customer accounts were affected, according to AT&T, which said that it currently does not believe that the…

The company could be fined up to 6 percent of its total worldwide annual turnover if the findings are later confirmed.Elon Musk’s social media platform X is in breach of the European Union’s online content law, according to preliminary findings by regulators that could lead to hefty fines for the company. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member bloc, announced on Friday that the social media platform is violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to “dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers”. The investigation, which opened in December, arrived at its preliminary findings…

Civil defence says other bodies remain under rubble after partial withdraw of Israeli forces from Tal al-Hawa, Shujayea.The bodies of dozens of Palestinians have been retrieved from the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood after Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Gaza City, Palestinian rescue workers have said. “The Gaza civil defence teams moved in to rescue survivors. They found dozens killed. Most of those killed are families, women, and children. Some bodies were eaten by dogs,” Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said on Friday. “At least 60 bodies were counted. Some bodies were buried on the spot. Others were taken to…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza and London, United Kingdom – Israa Saleh, a petite and softly spoken Palestinian doctor who wears a colourful hijab, has mourned for months. Her colleague Maisara al-Rayyes was killed in November when an Israeli air strike flattened his family home in Gaza City. His remains are still under the rubble. Saleh described al-Rayyes, who like her was awarded a prestigious Chevening scholarship by the British government, as a “brother”. “I still grieve over the loss,” she told Al Jazeera in Deir el-Balah, the central Gaza city she has fled to having been displaced 10 times in the…

Gaza City – My daughter Lya was just shy of seven months old when Israel’s war on Gaza began. She was born on March 19, 2023, two years after my husband, Mohammed, and I were married. It hadn’t been easy to conceive, and we were overjoyed to have Lya. From those early newborn days, I carefully considered everything that Lya would need, from her clothes to toys to later experimenting with recipes for the food that would nourish her. I had been adamant about breastfeeding for six months before introducing solid foods, wanting Lya to benefit from my milk as she…

NewsFeedThe number of Palestinians who are bulldozing their own homes has doubled, amid a surge in Israeli-ordered demolitions on occupied Palestinian territory. Homeowners say Israeli authorities are using the focus on Gaza to escalate occupation.Published On 12 Jul 202412 Jul 2024 Source link

NewsFeedTwo young Palestinian therapists are making prosthetic limbs out of scrap wood to help amputees in Gaza. Source link