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Experts warn about ‘the largest cohort of paediatric amputees in history’.Amputees in Gaza are at risk of fatal complications because of a lack of proper medical treatment, according to Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym MSF). The majority of the amputations being performed would have be preventable under normal circumstances. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, more than 86,969 people have been injured in Israel’s war on the enclave, with at least 12,000 estimated to be children, many suffering irreversible injuries. The United Nations childrens Fund (UNICEF) says that between October and January, at least 1,000…

For my colleague Mariam*, every morning is a prayer. After leaving her children at school in a suburb near Nablus, she hopes that nothing will hinder her way back to them when her work day ends. “We live in an open-air prison, wherever we are, we never feel safe. We have no sense of freedom. We can’t go from one place to another without having this fear … the checkpoints, the soldiers. Even if you don’t see them on the way, you are always afraid that a settler will attack. I am always afraid for the safety of my family,…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Nine members of one family among 12 killed in ‘safe zone’ after fleeing Khan Younis, as UN warns some 250,000 people affected by Israeli military order to leave areas of southern Gaza. Source link

Artificial Intelligence, power and social control – an exploration of what AI could mean for humanity.AI and us – iHuman explores what artificial intelligence and machine learning might mean for our lives, societies and futures. Featuring some of the pioneers of AI, this film looks at the most powerful and far-reaching technological development, both positively and with some concern. Computer scientists, data analysts, human rights lawyers, philosophers and psychologists deliver an overview of the last few years of AI but also a glimpse of the future. Surveillance across society, autonomous weapons, bias in algorithms, big data mining, AI-influenced online echo…

Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero”, meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company on Tuesday showed it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 percent in 2023 over the year before. Compared with its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 percent. Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. Making that electricity by…

For nearly nine months, Israel’s war on Gaza has forced Palestinians to run from place to place in search of pockets of safety in the besieged Strip. Israel’s latest mass evacuation order told 250,000 displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, to leave, as it carries out renewed attacks in southern Gaza. The order comes as fierce fighting traps Palestinians in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City in the north. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Khan Younis: [Al Jazeera] Where were Palestinians in Khan Younis…

NewsFeedMore than 470 people are in custody after attacks on Syrian shops and cars in central Turkey. Crowds of protesters set Syrian stores and property on fire after a Syrian man was accused of sexually abusing a seven-year old girl in Kayseri.Published On 2 Jul 20242 Jul 2024 Source link

After 14 years of a Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom, far more people are waiting to access medical care, and for longer. The NHS waiting list for treatment referrals in England hit 7.6 million cases in April – a threefold rise since 2010. The referral-to-treatment figures show the number of cases of patients waiting for elective care. As patients can be waiting for multiple treatments, the actual number of people on the list is lower – an estimated 6.3 million. Of the 7.6 million cases, more than 302,500 involved waits longer than 52 weeks. About 50,400 cases were…

The hospital where Sabha and Khan were stationed was also feeling a strain. Though it was designed for 200 people, it housed more than 10,000, according to Sabha. Many patients were suffering from severe injuries. Others faced amputations. Few had anywhere else to go. Sabha recalled that there was only “one bathroom for every 200 to 300 people”. Doctors, meanwhile, had to improvise emergency room (ER) settings. “When patients come into the ER, they don’t have a bed for them. They’re seeing them on the ground,” Sabha said. “In that hospital hallway, you’re always jumping over someone’s leg, over a…

India’s securities regulator has alleged Hindenburg colluded with another entity to help it short Adani Group.Hindenburg Research has denied allegations by India’s securities regulator that it colluded with a United States asset manager to use nonpublic information to set up a short bet against Adani Group last year, which if proven would breach the country’s rules. Hindenburg on Monday posted on its website a copy of a 46-page “show cause” notice from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) outlining the allegations in the latest twist to a saga that began last year when the US-based short seller alleged…