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The US Department of Justice reports that it disrupted a Russian-government-backed, AI-enabled propaganda campaign to use a bot farm to spread disinformation.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has disrupted a Russian operation that used fake social media accounts enhanced by artificial intelligence to covertly spread pro-Kremlin messages in the US and abroad, it said. The news on Tuesday comes four months before the US presidential election, which security experts widely believe will be the target of both hacking and covert social media influence attempts by foreign adversaries. Senior US officials have said publicly that they are monitoring for schemes…

Israeli air raids in Gaza have killed dozens of people and advancing Israeli army tanks in Gaza City have also forced residents to flee under fire, Palestinian officials said. On Tuesday, an air raid hit the tents of displaced families outside a school in the town of Abassan east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 29 people, most of them women and children, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military has said it was looking into the report. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office, said dozens of others were killed in other Israeli attacks…

The United States Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chairman Jerome Powell has said in testimony to the US Congress, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed’s single-minded fight against inflation of the past two years that suggests it is moving closer to cutting interest rates. The Fed has made “considerable progress” toward its goal of defeating the worst inflation spike in four decades, Powell told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. “Inflation has eased notably” in the past two years, he added, though it still remains above the central bank’s 2 percent…

Yehuda Fox said that the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, is in Israel’s security interest.An Israeli general has condemned the government’s decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and criticised rising levels of settler violence in the region, according to Israeli media reports. Major General Yehuda Fox, the outgoing head of Israel’s central command,  said at a departure ceremony on Monday that Israeli settlers have engaged in “nationalist crime” through violence in the occupied West Bank, which he said has “sowed chaos and fear in Palestinian residents who did not pose any threat.” “This is not…

NewsFeedDisplaced health professionals in Gaza are setting up tent clinics to care for the escalating number of sick and injured. An estimated 75% of Gaza’s medical facilities are either closed or destroyed because of Israel’s war.Published On 9 Jul 20249 Jul 2024 Source link

Report says famine has spread throughout the enclave after nine months of war.United Nations human rights experts have accused Israel of carrying out a “targeted starvation campaign” that has resulted in the deaths of children in Gaza. “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday. Israel’s diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva dismissed the statement and accused the experts of “spreading misinformation” and “supporting Hamas propaganda”. Gaza health authorities have said at…

NewsFeedTwo injured elderly Palestinians arrived at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital looking for help. They found a deserted facility instead.Published On 9 Jul 20249 Jul 2024 Source link

NewsFeedA Palestinian woman has told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces killed her father and grandfather by running them over with a tank during a raid in Gaza.Published On 9 Jul 20249 Jul 2024 Source link

Since October 7, Palestinians held by Israel have described horrific treatment and torture, especially in military detention centres.Even in regular times, Palestinians accuse the Israeli government of weaponising arbitrary arrests and say they face discrimination and abuse in the Israeli penal system. But after October 7, the scale and severity of abuse and lack of accountability have increased massively. With government ministers boasting of putting prisoners on “starvation diets” and some inmates even dying from torture, being arrested as a Palestinian – often without charge or trial – seems to be more dangerous than ever. Presenter: Anelise Borges Guests:Barca Odeh…

Football became a means of resistance to French colonial rule in Algeria and a counter to British colonialism in Sudan.Football was a means of resistance in the fight for independence in French colonial Algeria and British-ruled Sudan. The European powers introduced their sports to their colonies for their own recreation, as well as a way of controlling the local population. French authorities allowed local football clubs in Algeria on condition that they had a mix of Algerian and French settler players. As the nationalist movement grew, its relationship with football became closer. In 1958, 15 Algerian professionals based in France…