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A member of Israel’s war cabinet has told Sky News there is no famine in Gaza and there “never has been”.Ron Dermer, the country’s minister of strategic affairs, described the claim as “nonsense” and said there were “bustling markets” selling fruits and vegetables in the besieged territory.It comes after the World Food Programme warned there was a “full-blown famine” in parts of Gaza due to a lack of food after eight months of war.Cindy McCain, executive director of the UN agency, told Sky News last week that both children and adults were dying after being reduced to the “size of…

The High Court in London ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has a right to appeal against his extradition to the United States. Assange is facing 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse due to his website’s publication of a trove of classified US documents almost 15 years ago. Assurances over free speech Assange has spent the last five years in a British high-security prison after seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for seven years, trying to avoid extradition. In 2022, the United Kingdom’s then-Home Secretary, Priti Patel, signed an extradition order, but Assange turned to the High Court in February 2024 to…

Displaced Palestinians are on the move again, this time from Rafah, where the Israeli military advances a ground offensive. As fighting is reported across Gaza, aid agencies warn that not enough aid is reaching people. Source link

A fire-breather has been treated in hospital in Mexico after being attacked by a mariachi band and fighting back by setting several of them on fire.Security camera footage of the bizarre fight shows one of the mariachis chasing the fire-breather, placing him in a headlock, before punching him multiple times as traffic on a busy street stops. The fire-breather is then seen on the pavement as five of the band kick and punch him in front of a taco restaurant named El Inferno, or ‘Hell’ in the city of Morelia, west of the capital, Mexico City on Sunday. Follow Sky…

One person was killed, and more than 70 others were injured, after a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore encountered “severe turbulence,” the airline and Thai officials said Tuesday.  After flying through the turbulence, the flight made an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport at 3.45 p.m. local time, according to an airline statement.  A 73-year-old British man died in the incident, likely from a heart attack, Kittipong Kittikachorn, the director of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, told a press conference. Several others suffered severe head injuries.  Kittipong said the plane flew into an “air pocket.”  “There were lots of passengers who couldn’t walk and we rescued them…

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized Donald Trump for reposting a video with Nazi-era language on his social media account. “This is Hitler’s language, not America’s,” Biden said during a fundraiser in Boston in the northeastern state of Massachusetts. The video, reposted by Trump on his Truth Social media account, referred to a “united reich” if the Republican former president wins the 2024 election against incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden. The German word “Reich,” meaning “empire,” is associated with Nazi Germany. Under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945 six million Jews in Europe were murdered in the Holocaust.  White House: Trump repost ‘abhorrent, sickening…

The 73-year-old British man who died from a suspected heart attack after “sudden extreme turbulence” on a London-Singapore flight has been named as Geoff Kitchen.Dozens more were injured in the incident, with passengers describing people being “launched into the ceiling” and overhead lockers.Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from Heathrow was forced to make an emergency landing at Bangkok Airport in Thailand.Mr Kitchen, from Thornbury near Bristol, was on a six-week holiday with his wife to Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 6:42 Extreme turbulence comes ‘out of the blue’ In a post on…

As more protesters voice their support for Palestinians in Gaza in streets around the world, the UN General Assembly has expanded the rights of Palestine within the global body.  Now, five EU members are planning to extend their solidarity to the population of Gaza by officially recognizing Palestine as a sovereign country. This is seen as a step toward the two-state solution, which is looking increasingly less likely for the Israeli government as it presses ahead with its offensive in Rafah. After the October 7 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israeli forces would destroy Hamas, the militant organization that…

EU ministers on Tuesday signed off on a landmark law that sets out rules for using artificial intelligence in situations and sectors that are deemed particularly sensitive. Under the law, AI systems used in areas such as law enforcement and employment will have to demonstrate that they are adequately transparent and accurate, fulfill cybersecurity standards and meet criteria regarding the quality of the data used to train them. The vote by EU countries came two months after the European Parliament backed the AI legislation. The bloc’s law goes well beyond the voluntary compliance approach to AI in the US, for example,…

Police are investigating the source of the ketamine which killed actor Matthew Perry, it has emerged.Perry, who was best known for playing wise-cracking Chandler Bing in Friends, died at his LA home last October after being found unresponsive in a swimming pool. A post-mortem found his death was an accident from “the acute effects of ketamine”.Ketamine is a sedative that can be used as a recreational drug, as well as to treat depression.Read more: Matthew Perry – A life in pictures Los Angeles Police Department says it is working with the Drug Enforcement Agency as part of an investigation into…