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The parents of an Israeli hostage have told him “we love you, stay strong, survive” after he appeared with part of his arm missing in a video released by Hamas.Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped at the Nova musical festival when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October.The video shows him with his lower left arm missing; witnesses said it was blown off when he helped throw grenades out of a shelter where people were hiding.Middle East latest: Hezbollah dismisses ‘worthless’ Israeli claims on commanders killedHe reportedly used his shirt as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding, but was captured. Image: Hersh Goldberg-Polin…

In the 1990s, charities, governments and individual philanthropists invested billions of dollars into one goal: malaria control. They wanted to halve the global number of malaria deaths by 2010. At the time, malaria represented one of the biggest health threats in the world. At least one million people were dying of the disease each year, the vast majority of them young children. The “Roll Back Malaria” campaign officially launched in 1998. With billions of dollars in funding from global organizations like the World Health Organization and World Bank, partners started dispersing mosquito bed nets and indoor insecticide sprays in affected regions. They also…

“Speaking about Palestine in Germany should not be an act of courage,” organizers of the ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin stated at the event’s opening ceremony in 2023. A year later, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, organizing a film festival spotlighting Palestinian voices is an even greater challenge: “It feels like an impossible task right now. It doesn’t even feel like an act of courage. It feels like a suicide somehow, honestly,” says festival director Pascale Fakhry. The team is nevertheless taking this risk. The ALFILM festival, which has established itself, according to Fakhry, as the “biggest cinema platform representing…

If the knee joint is overstretched or twisted too much during sport, the cruciate ligament often tears. How is the injury treated, how long are you sidelined for and can you return? Source link

Skip next section US quietly delivered long-range missiles to Ukraine, officials say04/24/2024April 24, 2024US quietly delivered long-range missiles to Ukraine, officials sayThe United States secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine in recent weeks for use in fight against Russian forces. Ukraine used them for the first time last week, according to unnamed US officials who spoke to Reuters and AP news agencies. The missiles were included in a $300 million (€280 million euro) military aid package to Ukraine approved by US President Joe Biden on March 12. How many of the missiles were sent, the official would not say. The missiles were…

“No more farmers, no more bread” was a popular slogan during the more than 200 street blockades organized by Polish farmers in February this year. Outside the Polish town of Kock, a two-hour drive from the Ukrainian border, for example, hundreds of tractors blocked a street to prevent cheap Ukrainian grain from entering the country. For farmers here, there’s another major worry: They fear that the entry of Poland’s eastern neighbor into the EUcould threaten their livelihoods. “They must forget about it. It’s a crazy idea,” one of the protesting farmers told DW during the blockade. For more than a decade, the EU seemed…

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the social media company would put up a legal fight in court against a US law calling for its divestment from Chinese ownership.  “Make no mistake, this is a ban. A ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice,” Shou said in a video posted on the app shortly after the bill was signed into law by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.  The newly signed law, which was passed through Congress in conjunction with a large-scale military aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, gives Chinese owner ByteDance nine months…

Iran has sentenced a renowned rapper to death for backing protests in the country, his lawyer has said.Hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, through his music, supported months of demonstrations in Iran in 2022 sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police for allegedly wearing an “improper hijab”. Officials said Amini had suffered a heart attack and was taken to hospital, but her family blamed the police for her death, and reports say that she was beaten with batons and suffered a brain injury. Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from…

A girl with a story only needs a camera and a mic. Those are the main ingredients of GirlZ Off Mute. Aged 13–18, our teen reporters across Africa ask their own questions about the future. We have over 40 teen reporters Source link

The European Commission on Wednesday announced it is launching an investigation into Chinese public procurement of medical devices. The 27-member bloc fears China favors local suppliers under the “Buy China” policy. The Commission’s announcement comes weeks after it opened investigations into two Chinese solar panel manufacturers it suspected of receiving unfair subsidies from Beijing. What do we know about the probe into Chinese medical device procurement? The EU’s official journal said Brussels was concerned that Beijing was imposing conditions “leading to abnormally low bids that cannot be sustained by profit-oriented companies.” “The… restrictive measures and practices put at a significant and systematic…