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Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published…

A Hong Kong court on Monday issued the liquidation of battered Chinese property giant Evergrande after lawyers failed to convince a judge it had a working restructuring plan. Issued on: 29/01/2024 – 04:53 2 min  Once China’s biggest developer, Evergrande has reported more than $300 billion in liabilities and its troubles have become a symbol of a years-long property crisis that has dealt a massive blow to the country’s economy.A creditor in 2022 filed a winding-up petition in Hong Kong against China Evergrande Group – which would begin the process of liquidation – but the case has dragged on while…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test launch of a new strategic cruise missile from a submarine, state media said Monday, the latest tension-raising move by the nuclear-armed state. Issued on: 29/01/2024 – 01:22 2 min  The two Pulhwasal-3-31 missiles “flew in the sky above the East Sea … to hit the island target” on Sunday, state-run news agency KCNA reported, adding that Kim Jong Un had “guided” the launch.It said the missiles were in the air for 7,421 seconds and 7,445 seconds, but did not say how far they flew or whether they had been launched from above…

Issued on: 29/01/2024 – 00:44 DR Congo dump out seven-time Africa Cup of Nations winners Egypt after an epic penalty shootout. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde Guinea break Equatorial Guinea hearts with a last gasp goal to reach the quarter-finals. To discuss all the football action, Leo McGuinn is joined by sports journalist Thando Sibiya and France 24’s James Vasina live from Ivory Coast.To discuss all the football action, Leo McGuinn is joined by Thando Sibiya and FRANCE 24’s James Vasina in Ivory Coast.Produced by Leo McGuinn and Rebecca Gnignati Source link

Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations, the space agency said, indicating that power had been restored. Issued on: 29/01/2024 – 01:47  “Last evening we succeeded in establishing communication with SLIM, and resumed operations,” JAXA said on X, formerly Twitter.”We immediately started scientific observations with MBC, and have successfully obtained first light for 10-band observation,” it said, referring to the lander’s multiband spectroscopic camera.The agency also posted on X an image shot by the probe of “toy poodle”, a rock observed near the lander.The touchdown earlier this month made Japan only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, after the…

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced Sunday they would be leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “without delay”, citing the injustice of sanctions ECOWAS levied on each country following takeovers by military juntas. Issued on: 28/01/2024 – 14:37Modified: 28/01/2024 – 14:52 1 min The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS. The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a “sovereign decision” to leave the Economic Community of West African States “without delay”.Struggling with jihadist violence and poverty, the regimes have…

Issued on: 25/01/2024 – 15:59Modified: 27/01/2024 – 13:32 04:24 Anti-Semitic acts in France nearly quadrupled in 2023 compared with the previous year, a Jewish organisation said Wednesday, reflecting a surge in discrimination since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. Citing figures from the French interior ministry and a French-Jewish security watchdog, the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) said there were 1,676 anti-Semitic acts last year compared to 436 the year prior. Nearly 60 percent of those acts were attacks involving physical violence, threatening words or menacing gestures, CRIF said in its report. Worryingly, nearly 13 percent…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday that he has proposed the signing of a non aggression pact to Azerbaijan, pending a comprehensive peace treaty between the arch-foe Caucasus neighbours. Issued on: 28/01/2024 – 21:41Modified: 28/01/2024 – 22:28 1 min Yerevan and Baku have fought two wars — in 2020 and in the 1990s — over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan recaptured in a lightning offensive last year.”We have presented Azerbaijan with a proposal for a mutual arms control mechanism and the signing of a non-aggression pact if the signature of a peace treaty encounters delays,” Pashinyan said…

Issued on: 28/01/2024 – 16:54Modified: 28/01/2024 – 17:13 01:43 Palestiniens are fleeing Khan Younis, following evacuation orders from the Israeli military. Israel ordered residents to leave a downtown area that includes Nasser Hospital. Footage shared by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed it packed, with patients being treated on the ground.  Read more on related topics: Source link

Finns headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, an office whose importance has grown as tensions increased with neighbouring Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.  Issued on: 28/01/2024 – 20:33Modified: 28/01/2024 – 20:34 3 min While the president’s powers are limited, the head of state — who also acts as supreme commander of Finland’s armed forces — helps direct foreign policy in collaboration with the government, meaning the changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the winner.Two top politicians lead the pack of nine candidates: former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and…