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☆ Israeli Military Encircles Another Gaza Hospital, Doctors Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Patients and staff at a second hospital in Gaza, Indonesia Hospital, braced for Israeli troops to enter the complex Monday after tanks surrounded it and artillery shelling hit the building, killing about a dozen people including patients, according to Palestinian officials and doctors. The Israeli military said it targeted militants that opened fire at Israeli troops from within the hospital and that no shells were fired toward the facility. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, denies using hospitals for military purposes.

Organizations: Indonesia Hospital Locations: Gaza, Indonesia, U.S

☆ Explosion Rocks Gaza Hospital After Clashes Intensify Outside
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An explosion Monday rocked the second floor of a hospital in Gaza, killing about a dozen people, including patients, according to hospital staff and Palestinian officials. Gunfire and explosions around the Indonesia Hospital, in the northern part of the enclave and where thousands are seeking shelter, have intensified in recent days, the hospital’s medical director Marwan Al-Sultan said in a telephone interview. He said several Israeli tanks had been moving back and forth about 100 feet from the hospital entrance.

Persons: Marwan Al, Sultan Organizations: Indonesia Hospital Locations: Gaza, Indonesia

☆ Israel Says It Is Close to Dismantling Hamas Military System in Northern Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s military said it was close to dismantling Hamas’s military system in the north of the Gaza Strip, as the enclave was plunged into a communications blackout when fuel ran out. As the war stretches to six weeks, the Israeli military said Friday “there remains work to be completed” in northern Gaza, but that it would target more areas in the strip. In the south of the enclave, where Israel had told people to go in October as it prepared to mount a ground offensive in the north, displaced families crowded in homes and shelters worried that the Israeli military would expand operations there.

Persons: Israel Locations: Gaza

☆ White House condemns Musk for spreading 'hideous' antisemitic lie
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 17 (Reuters) - The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous" antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." Representatives for Musk or X could not immediately be reached for comment on the White House statement. X earlier declined to comment on Musk's post, which endorsed a post that falsely claimed members of the Jewish community were stoking hatred against white people. Antisemitism has been on the rise in recent years in the United States and worldwide. Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw, Steve Holland and Sheila Deng; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Elon Musk, Porte, Gonzalo Fuentes, Andrew Bates, Linda Yaccarino, Adolf Hitler, Musk, Jarrett Renshaw, Steve Holland, Sheila Deng, Susan Heavey, Daniel Wallis Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, Viva Technology, Porte de, REUTERS, Representatives, IBM, Nazi Party, Hamas, Defamation League, Thomson Locations: Paris, France, Israel, United States, Palestinian

☆ APEC Summit Biden Aims to Fortify Ties With Asian Nations at Summit in San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Katie Rogers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Image President Xi Jinping of China spoke to a crowd of U.S. business executives at a dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday evening. “There are hundreds and hundreds of activists —” Crowd: “Go home Xi Jinping!” “— who are coming together from all corners of this nation.” “We are really upset. 1 question for us is: Are we adversaries or partners?” Mr. Xi asked. Mr. Orlins said the Chinese had prepared three versions of a speech Mr. Xi could deliver that night. After Wednesday’s events with Mr. Biden, Mr. Xi picked the friendliest one.

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☆ China's not-so-special economic zone embodies a harsh new reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( David Kirton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

REUTERS/David Kirton Acquire Licensing RightsSHENZHEN, China, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Tony Xiong is among the latest arrivals to the glitzy office towers in the newest part of Shenzhen, built to showcase China's economic miracle. Office workers are not the only ones grumbling about the unattractiveness of Qianhai, a special economic zone where Chinese dreams of global financial might and economic prosperity that once seemed inevitable are now darkened by half-empty skyscrapers and shopping malls as well as barely used motorways. And that's before China's tallest skyscraper of over 1,000 metres and a cluster of other towers are completed. With China entering a new era of sluggish growth, Qianhai may never reach the international status to which it aspires. The Qianhai Authority and China's State Council Information Office did not respond to Reuters requests for comment on the local and macro economic challenges.

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The Israeli military Wednesday said its troops came under fire outside Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, as they entered part of the medical complex Israel says Hamas militants are operating from. A senior Israeli military official said Israeli soldiers killed four militants during the firefight on their way into the hospital and had found weapons inside, adding that they saw “concrete evidence” that Hamas militants were operating there.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Al, Gaza’s, Israel

☆ Israel Says It Found Evidence of Hamas Activity at Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Dov Lieber | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel released footage from Gaza’s largest hospital on Wednesday that it said proved the site was being used by Hamas militants, after searching buildings in an operation that carries high stakes for both sides of the war. The footage showed the MRI wing of the sprawling Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israel said it found AK-47s, grenades, military uniforms and a battle vest with the insignia of Hamas’s military wing. In a video, an Israeli military spokesman pointed to a laptop, a hand-held tactical radio and a set of discs as evidence of a Hamas command center in the hospital, although the laptop screen was blurred and he didn’t specify what was found on it.

Organizations: Hamas, Shifa, AK Locations: Israel, Gaza City

Israeli soldiers moved into Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, on Wednesday, searching buildings and questioning Palestinians sheltering there in an operation that carries high stakes for both sides of the war. The Israeli offensive has faced international criticism for the killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Israel contends the hospital compound sits atop underground complexes and a command center used by militants, a claim endorsed by the U.S. Hamas denies those claims.

Organizations: U.S Locations: Gaza’s, Al, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israeli Forces Reach Gate of Gaza’s Largest Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Dov Lieber | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli troops reached at least one of the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital where Israel says Hamas conceals a major center of operations, while medical staff reported deteriorating conditions inside because of a lack of supplies and electricity. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli military vehicles were at the southeast gate of Al-Shifa Hospital, and an Israeli military spokesman confirmed that troops had reached one of the gates. Israel alleges that Hamas runs four underground complexes and a command-and-control center at the hospital, a claim Hamas denies.

Organizations: Health Ministry, Hamas, Shifa Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza’s, Israel, Gaza, Al

Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought intense street battles Sunday around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, leaving the medical facility with dwindling supplies for thousands sheltering there while a power outage led to the death of two newborns, according to doctors there. Doctors described an increasingly desperate situation at hospitals in northern Gaza, including the biggest one, Al-Shifa Hospital, where they said dozens of dead bodies have been left in the open and decomposing and nearly 40 prematurely born babies are without the incubators they need.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Gaza

Israeli forces said they were engaged in fierce fighting early Saturday around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas has positioned fighters near thousands of displaced people and hundreds of patients amid worsening conditions at the facility. Hospital officials said doctors were using scant remaining medical supplies to treat wounded people as the battle in the area intensified, the hospital largely operated without electricity and water ran desperately low. There were no indications that Israeli troops had entered the hospital complex as of Saturday morning or whether Hamas fighters were inside it.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Al, Israel

Israeli forces said they were engaged in fierce fighting Saturday around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas has positioned fighters near thousands of displaced people and hundreds of patients amid worsening conditions at the facility. Hospital officials said that doctors at Al-Shifa were using scant remaining medical supplies to treat wounded people, that the hospital was largely operating without electricity and water was running desperately low.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas, Al Locations: Gaza, Al, Israel

☆ ‘They Have Nowhere to Go’: A Gaza Hospital Braces for Fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

At the sprawling Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, families pack the hallways inside, while others have set up makeshift tents outside, with bed sheets hung up for privacy. Doctors, short on space and supplies, tend to bloodied patients on the floor. About a mile away, a much bigger problem is approaching: The Israeli army is engaging in firefights with Hamas militants. Palestinians have been told to evacuate the 700-bed hospital, but many believe it’s the safest place they can go. Between 50,000 and 60,000 people are sheltering inside and around the grounds of the hospital, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, with 2,500 patients in need of care.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas, Health Ministry Locations: Gaza City, Gaza

A Palestinian mourned the death of family members in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Photo: mahmud hams/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesIsraeli troops were advancing toward the heart of Gaza City, engaging in heavy gunbattles and ratcheting up pressure on neighborhoods that have become a refuge for tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli military said Thursday it captured an area on the western side of the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza City, after a 10-hour gunbattle with Hamas that unfolded in tunnels and on city streets that have become a wasteland. Israel troops fought amid destroyed buildings, backed up by tanks, and with armored bulldozers clearing a path through the rubble, pictures released by Israel Defense Forces showed. Weapons were captured and tunnel shafts uncovered, the Israeli military said

Persons: Khan Younis, mahmud Organizations: Agence France, Getty, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel

The tiny Palestinian enclave of Gaza has been the focus of Israeli fire for the past month, after Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking hundreds hostage. More than 10,500 people have been killed, most of them women and children, according to health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza. The figures don’t distinguish between civilians and militants. The voices of people living there provide a picture of how life has changed for them under siege and bombardment. Write to Juanje Gómez at juanje.gomez@wsj.com, Chao Deng at chao.deng@wsj.com, Stephen Kalin at stephen.kalin@wsj.com and Luke Vargas at Luke.Vargas@wsj.com

Persons: Chao Deng, Stephen Kalin, Luke Vargas Locations: Gaza, Israel, juanje.gomez@wsj.com, chao.deng@wsj.com, stephen.kalin@wsj.com

CAIRO—On the wall of the border crossing between bombed-out Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai desert there is a list. The names on it have been a source of hope, despair and confusion for the hundreds of foreign families wanting to escape the Palestinian enclave under Israeli fire. When American sisters Jana and Mena Timraz appeared on the list on Thursday, they rejoiced. But their parents, their brothers and Jana’s husband, who aren’t U.S. citizens, were missing from the roster.

Persons: Jana, Mena Timraz Locations: CAIRO, Gaza

☆ OpenAI Lets Mom-and-Pop Shops Customize ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI said on Monday that it had created a service that allows individuals and small businesses to build customized versions of its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT, and instantly share them on the internet. Through a new service called GPTs, anyone can quickly customize the chatbot for a particular task without help from additional software or computer code. The owner of a small bed-and-breakfast, for instance, could build a chatbot that answers questions for anyone who stays there. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, has accelerated the release of its A.I. In September, it folded its DALL-E image generator into ChatGPT and released a new version of its popular chatbot that interacts with people using spoken words, much like Apple’s Siri digital assistant.

Persons: OpenAI, ” Peter Deng, Siri Locations: San Francisco

☆ This city never slept. Now with China tightening its grip, is the party over?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

China’s message at the time was that even if change was coming to Hong Kong, its spirit of “anything goes” would be staying put. People gather outside a restaurant on a near-empty street in the Soho area of Hong Kong. Officials say they were “fluorescent.”A Hong Kong government spokesman told CNN this week that the activities were “well-received by local residents and tourists”. Under Hong Kong’s pandemic restrictions, live music was all but banned in small venues for more than 650 days. Months before the virus emerged, China had been tightening its grip on Hong Kong in response to pro-democracy protests that had spread throughout the city.

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Airstrikes on a densely populated neighborhood in Gaza this week show Israel is waging a broader and more ferocious war against Hamas, an approach that aims to destroy the Palestinian militant group but has sparked an international backlash. The repeated strikes on the Jabalia neighborhood—a refugee camp that has turned into a warren of permanent homes and apartment buildings—come amid a three-week-long air campaign by Israel that is the most intense in its history and rivals any aerial bombardment this century, military analysts say.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Chunks of an alien world could be hidden deep within our planet, say scientists
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This alien planet, Theia, was thought to have completely disappeared in the collision. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs well as shedding new light on the inner workings of our planet, scientists hope they will one day have access to these slabs of alien rock to reveal, once and for all, how our moon formed. The assumption has long been that Theia melded into moon, the Earth's mantle, and its core, in effect disappearing completely. Previous theories have suggested this core-mantle boundary could be made up of bits of ancient ocean floors. The problem is that the core-mantle boundary is very far from the surface — about 1,800 miles.

Persons: Theia, Vincent Eke, Jacob A, haven't, Edward Garnero, Li, Hongping Deng, Everest, Deng, Christian Schroeder Organizations: Service, Arizona State University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Durham University, University of Stirling Locations: Theia, Iceland, Samoa

☆ Relics of huge primordial collision reside in Earth's deep interior
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/NASA/Handout/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region. Based on these simulations, they proposed that most of Theia was absorbed into Earth, forming the blobs, while residual debris formed the moon. If the study's conclusions are correct, these blobs would represent the first direct evidence of the hypothesized moon-forming collision. "It is incredible because we can uncover relics of another planet - Theia - if we dig deep enough in Earth's mantle," added planetary scientist and study co-author Hongping Deng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Asimow said that if their conclusions are correct some volcanic rocks that reach Earth's surface may provide samples of a vanished planet.

Persons: Qian Yuan, Paul Asimow, Hongping Deng, Yuan, Asimow, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: NASA, REUTERS, Rights, Caltech, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Thomson Locations: Africa, South Pacific, Theia, Shanghai

☆ Relics of Huge Primordial Collision Reside in Earth's Deep Interior
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region. Based on these simulations, they proposed that most of Theia was absorbed into Earth, forming the blobs, while residual debris formed the moon. If the study's conclusions are correct, these blobs would represent the first direct evidence of the hypothesized moon-forming collision. "It is incredible because we can uncover relics of another planet - Theia - if we dig deep enough in Earth's mantle," added planetary scientist and study co-author Hongping Deng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Asimow said that if their conclusions are correct some volcanic rocks that reach Earth's surface may provide samples of a vanished planet.

Persons: Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Qian Yuan, Paul Asimow, Hongping Deng, Yuan, Asimow, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Caltech, Chinese Academy of Sciences Locations: Africa, South Pacific, Theia, Shanghai

☆ Israel Says It Has Killed a Planner of Oct. 7 Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Chao Deng | Ari Flanzraich | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s military said its ground forces continued to fight inside Gaza early Saturday, after an intense wave of airstrikes and ground raids overnight targeted Hamas’s extensive network of underground tunnels and killed leaders of the militant group involved in the planning of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The war between Israel and Hamas entered a new phase Friday after Israel said it was expanding its ground operation in the Gaza Strip and launched an intense wave of strikes from air and sea, possibly laying the ground for a full-blown invasion of the enclave.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

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