BELÉM, Brazil, November 23 (IPS) – Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a “politically charged Belém package” was finally forged at COP30—so named because of the highly contentious and dif…
Israel targets Hezbollah chief in first strike on Beirut in months
The strike on Sunday, launched almost a year after a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened a wider conflict.
Sickening world of human safaris where ghouls ‘pay £80k to kill kids’ & warzone snipers hand weapons to ‘dark tourists’
STANDING next to a sniper on the frontline in Iraq, dark tourist Andrew Drury was offered the chance to take a shot himself. The horrified dad-of-four turned down the opportunity to kill, but this month prosecutors in Italy announced they were investig…
Israel targets key Hezbollah official in first attack on Beirut in months
Israel has escalated its campaign on targets it says are linked to Hezbollah, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities.
Fifty children escape after mass school abduction in Nigeria
The raid on a Christian school came amid a surge of attacks by armed groups in the African nation.
Israel targets Hezbollah terror boss as it unleashes strikes on Lebanon’s capital for the first time in months
ISRAEL has blasted the heart of Lebanon, striking deep inside Hezbollah’s stronghold and targeting the terror group’s chief of staff. It is the first Israeli strike in Beirut in months, marking a dramatic escalation in a confrontation that has been ste…
Minister indicates sympathy for artists in debate over AI and copyright
People rightly want to get get paid for their work, says Liz Kendall, in apparent change of tack to predecessor The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has indicated she is sympathetic to artists’ demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by A…
‘I used to call him on Father’s Day’: Oakland shattered by football coach’s killing
In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotionFootball in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young peo…
‘To target supreme leader’: Iran warns of attempts to assassinate Khamenei; plot to destabilise country
Iran’s intelligence ministry has warned of alleged foreign attempts, including by the US and Israel, to assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and destabilize the Islamic Republic. Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib stated that “the enemy s…
Gaza civil defence says 21 killed in Israeli strikes
Gaza’s civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded in multiple Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian territory on Saturday, further straining the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas. Shirli Sitbon has this story.