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☆ Renewed fighting in Myanmar has displaced 26,000 people since Monday, UN says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Chloe Liu | Lucas Liliehom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Renewed fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and the Arakan Army (AA) has displaced more than 26,000 people in the country’s western Rakhine state since Monday, according to the United Nations. More than 100 people have reportedly been detained by the MAF and five by the AA, it added. The most recent fighting began when the AA reportedly attacked two border posts near the Maungdaw township, which is near the border with Bangladesh. Most humanitarian activities have been suspended due to the fighting and “virtually all roads and waterways” between Rakhine townships have been blocked, the statement read. Whole villages have been burned down by junta soldiers and schools, clinics and hospitals destroyed in the attacks.

Persons: Min Aung Hlaing Organizations: CNN, Myanmar Armed Forces, Arakan Army, United Nations, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, AA, UN Locations: Rakhine, Myanmar, Maungdaw, Bangladesh

Hong Kong CNN —China and the Philippines on Sunday accused each other of causing collisions in a disputed area of the South China Sea, the latest in a string of maritime confrontations between the two countries that have heightened regional tensions. In a statement Sunday, the Chinese Coast Guard accused the Philippines of violating international marine law and threatening the navigation safety of Chinese ships. In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a landmark maritime dispute, which concluded that China has no legal basis to claim historic rights to the bulk of the South China Sea. In September, the Philippine Coast Guard released video of a Filipino diver cutting a Chinese-installed floating barrier in a disputed area of the waterway that had prevented Filipino boats from entering. It came just days after after the Philippine Coast Guard accused China’s maritime militia of turning vast patches of coral near the Palawan island chain into a bleached and broken wasteland.

Persons: Thomas, “, Thomas Shoal Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Coast Guard, National Task Force, West Philippine, BRP, Chinese Coast Guard, Philippine Coast Guard Locations: Hong Kong, China, Philippines, South China, Philippine, Ayungin, Spratly, BRP Sierra Madre, Manila, Beijing, China’s, The Hague, Palawan

☆ Biden snubbed by Middle East allies as Arab world seethes over Gaza hospital blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority canceled a planned meeting with Biden less than 24 hours before he was supposed to meet them for a four-way summit in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Wednesday. The cancellation followed a massive blast in Gaza’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of Palestinians. Palestinian officials blamed Israel for the hospital blast, while Israeli officials said it was caused by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket. Egypt on Wednesday declared three days of mourning for the Gaza hospital victims. Israel ruled Gaza from 1967 to 2005 and it settled Jews there during that period.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Israel, ”, Ayman Safadi, Al, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel “, Abdul Khaleq Abdulla, “, Biden’s, King Abdullah, Jordan, Gazans, Olaf Scholz, Abdel Fattah el, Sisi, ” Sisi, Timothy Kaldas, Sisi’s, Sameh Shoukry, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, ” Shoukry, ” Kaldas, CNN’s Akanksha Sharma, Hamdi Alkhshali, DJ Judd, Eyad Kourdi, Tim Lister, Chloe Liu, Ben Wedeman, Celine Alkhaldi, Abeer Salman Organizations: UAE CNN —, United, United States ’, Palestinian Authority, Ahli Baptist Hospital, Israeli, National Security, CNN, Israel, West Bank, Wednesday, United Arab, Islamic, Tahrir Institute, Middle East Locations: Abu Dhabi, UAE, United States, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Jordanian, Amman, Gaza’s Al, Ahli, Al Jazeera, Tel Aviv, Washington’s, Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Ramallah, United Arab Emirates, Egypt’s Sinai, Washington ,, Europe

“We watched houses dropping as we drove, thinking we could die any minute,” she told CNN. Khan Younis had a population of just over 400,000 before the war. Nardeen Fares, 27, takes a selfie with her husband at Gaza Port, near Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip in May 2023. Over the weekend, concrete slabs were placed at the Egyptian side of the crossing, blocking all gates, a Palestinian border official told CNN Saturday. For my son, my unborn child and myself,” she told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Khulood Khaled, “, ”, ” Khulood, Khan Younis, Dominic Allen, Khan Younis –, Fares, ” Fares, ” She’s, Khan Younis won’t, Nasser, Allen, ” Allen, Antonio Guterres, Brink, Mona Ashour, Hashem Al, Ashour, Antony Blinken, Sameh Shoukry, Israel, Khulood, “ I’m, Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Chloe Liu, Niamh Kennedy Organizations: CNN, United Nations Population Fund, State, CNN Sunday, Nardeen, Israel, Sunday, Nasser Hospital, World Health Organization, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UN, . Locations: Karama, Gaza, Khan, Palestine, Israel, “, Gaza City, Gaza Port, Kizan, Saudi, Ashour, Palestinian, Egypt’s, Sinai, Egypt, Rafah

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