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☆ Tiger testicles and mythical banquets: What China’s emperors inside Beijing’s secretive Forbidden City really ate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

CNN —The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. It was called the ‘Forbidden City’ because few Chinese subjects were allowed to enter. Ancient tableware from the Forbidden City is on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. “The majority of (the emperors) grew up in a highly disciplined environment,” says Wang of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Now popular worldwide, Peking duck was regularly served at Empress Dowager Cixi's Forbidden City banquets.

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On Sunday, the Israeli military claimed to have targeted Hamas’ military chief and killed a Hamas brigade commander in an airstrike in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its air force struck the location where “a number of terrorists” were operating. Palestinians and UN workers examine the destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat refugee camp of Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 15, 2024. Meanwhile, the latest Israeli strikes have put new pressure on the success of ongoing ceasefire and hostage negotiations, which hit yet another roadblock last week. The Israeli military is verifying whether he was killed while Netanyahu acknowledged it is uncertain whether he died.

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☆ CIA Director Bill Burns says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is facing growing pressure from his own commanders to end Gaza war
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. The increased pressure on Sinwar comes as Hamas and Israel have agreed to a framework deal that that President Joe Biden laid out at the end of May. That’s what US officials have said is being used as the basis to an agreement to end the fighting. Of the three most senior Hamas leaders in Gaza, Israel is believed to have found and killed just one: Marwan Issa, the second in command of the military wing. There are still “tough issues to resolve,” a source familiar with the talks told CNN after Burns’ meetings in Doha.

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Emergency crews recovered 50 to 60 bodies in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in the west of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. “There is unprecedented destruction of infrastructure and vital facilities in the Shujaya… and Tal al-Hawa areas,” Al-Nabih told CNN. Israeli strikes in Gaza have since killed 38,345 Palestinians and injured another 88,295 people, according to the Ministry of Health there. “I don’t know what crime civilians did to deserve this,” one resident, Tareq Ghanem, told CNN on Friday. The mother told CNN she was desperate to return home for the wellbeing of her children.

Persons: Tal, Mahmoud Basal, Asem, ” Al, Nabih, Omar Al, Tareq Ghanem, “, ”, Umm Ihab Arafat, Tal Al Organizations: CNN, Civil Defense, Getty, UN, Hamas, Ministry of Health, Al, Sina’a, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Shujaya, Tal al, Al, AFP, Israel, ”, Beit Hanoun, Rafah

☆ A Debut Novel That Skewers Capitalism, One Scalped Birkin at a Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Lauren Christensen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE COIN, by Yasmin ZaherHalfway through Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel, “The Coin,” the unnamed narrator, a Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City, arrives at the Hermès flagship store on Paris’s Rue Saint-Honoré to buy a Birkin. “Every year, regardless of poverty, war or famine, the price of the Birkin bag increases,” she explains. (He, in turn, left her millions of dollars that she cannot access except by allowance from her patronizing older brother.) Or with her own rootlessness, her parentless exile from a place in which her family had already been exiled for generations? Zaher’s smart, sneering novel of capital and its consequences answers: Everything.

Persons: Yasmin Zaher Halfway, Yasmin Zaher’s, “, Birkin, Hermès, grifter, Robin Hood, Muhammad Organizations: Rue Saint Locations: Palestinian, New York City, Palestine

The nine-month war in Gaza nearly took Julia’s life, as the fighting and displacement cut off her access to treatment. Around a month into the war, Julia ran out of three of the five medications she was taking, Dareen told CNN. “Ibrahim and I were the only two survivors,” Alaa told CNN, adding that the airstrike killed 30 members of their family. “We lived through hunger, the main ingredients for food weren’t there,” Alaa told CNN. I can’t be her mother and father at the same time.” she told CNN.

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☆ Australia appoints special envoys as antisemitism, Islamophobia rise over Gaza war
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —The Australian government is appointing the country’s first envoys to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia in an attempt to prevent further fraying of social cohesion over the war in Gaza. “I have spoken with members of the Jewish community here, in Melbourne, right around Australia, who have not felt safe, members of the Jewish community whose children are worried about wearing their school uniform in our capital cities. David Gray/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), which represents the Jewish community, recorded a spike in antisemitic incidents from October to November 2023. The group said Tuesday reports of antisemitic incidents in Australia are still running 400-500% higher than before the conflict. Protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza are continuing in Australia with four people arrested for climbing onto the roof of Parliament House last week.

Persons: Anthony Albanese, “, ”, Albanese, Jillian Segal, ” Albanese, David Gray, Fatima Payman, Matt Jelonek, ” Sen, Labor’s Organizations: Australia CNN, “, Albanese’s, Labor Party, Jewish Museum, Getty, of Australian, Australian, Hamas, Palestinian, United, West, Australian Labor Party, Greens Party, University Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Gaza, Israel, Sydney, Melbourne, That’s, AFP, United Nations, Perth, West Australian

☆ China faces economic headwinds as it grapples with an aging — and shrinking — population
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Ernestine Siu | In Ernestinesiu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Fertility rates across OECD countries have halved since 1960, according to a new OECD report. He said the three countries are disproportionately impacted by a rapidly aging population, largely due to improved standards of living, which have a "very strong inverse relationship with fertility rates." These improved conditions have led to a greater opportunity cost for having children, Xu said. Shrinking workforceA decline in fertility rate puts pressure on the economy and the society at large as the working population shrinks. China's policy shiftsIn China, policymakers have been putting a big emphasis on "productivity growth," Xu told CNBC.

Persons: Leren Lu, Darren Tay, Erica Tay, Tianchen Xu, Xu, BMI's Tay, Tay, Maybank's Tay Organizations: OECD, BMI, Risk, United Nations, Economist Intelligence, Economic Co, National Bureau of Statistics, CNBC, Economist Intelligence Unit Locations: China, Asia, South Korea, Japan, East, Southeast Asia, Maybank

☆ Richard Branson: 6 inspiring books that changed my life—including one 'everyone should read'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A great book can challenge your perceptions, shape your worldview, and impart messages that stay with you forever. Six books that billionaire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has read over the course of his life have left that sort of lasting effect. Most recently, in April, he released his audiobook memoir, "Losing and Finding My Virginity: The Full Story." Branson calls it "a very entertaining read that has always stayed with me." On "Start With Why," Branson says: "My key takeaway was that it doesn't matter what you do, but why you do it ….

Persons: Richard Branson, Branson, Bryan Stevenson Stevenson, Walter McMillian, Jamie Foxx, Luke Rhinehart, George Cockcroft, Simon Sinek Sinek, Elizabeth Nyamayaro Branson, Nyamayaro Organizations: Virgin Group, CNBC, New York University, Equal, Initiative, Virgin Records, United Nations, UNICEF Locations: Africa, Zimbabwe

☆ Famine Drove Jamestown Settlers to Eat Native Dogs, DNA Reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Carl Zimmer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. For 30 years, archaeologists have been digging at Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in America. Now, some of the most intriguing clues are coming from bones — not of the people who lived in Jamestown, but of the dogs. The earliest written records of European colonists make only fleeting references to dogs. Some European dogs helped hunt down deer and birds, while others were sent into battle: When Powhatan forces attacked Jamestown, English soldiers retaliated by setting dogs loose on Powhatan villages.

Persons: James, Powhatan Locations: Jamestown, America, Virginia, British

“People started stealing just to eat… Sick children cannot withstand famine.”Umm Ubaida comforts her daughter, Yasmin, aged 5, in Nasser Hospital, on Tuesday. CNNCNN footage from Nasser Hospital on Tuesday showed another evacuee – five-year-old blood cancer patient Yasmin – squirming in pain, her emaciated limbs sprawled on a teal mattress. Among those are 980 children with cancer – including 250 patients who could face “certain death” – the ministry reported on Friday. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed 37,718 Palestinians and injured another 86,377 people, according to Gaza health officials. Brothers Amjad, aged 2, and Ahmad, aged 7, are shown in Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, before their medical evacuation to Egypt.

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☆ We tested the new Toyota Land Cruiser against its legendary predecessor. It lives up to the hype, even without a third row.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Toyota launched new Land Cruiser in the US, reviving the iconic SUV . The original Land Cruiser, known for its durability, debuted in the 1950s. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe original Land Cruiser launched in the 1950s and rightly earned a reputation as an unbreakable beast of a car. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Pentagon and USAID launch oversight reviews of US pier and humanitarian aid for Gaza amid repeated challenges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Haley Britzky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The Defense Department IG will look specifically at the “effectiveness of DoD’s efforts to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through the maritime corridor,” a press release on Thursday, announcing the effort, said. The pier — called the Joint Logistics Over The Shore, or JLOTS — was first established on the Gaza coast in May. WFP has had their distribution of aid from the pier paused for more than two weeks as they assess the security situation on the ground. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in Gaza has only grown more dire as the war between Israel and Hamas continues. “Given this, the DoD OIG and USAID OIG are working together to address the challenges associated with this mission.

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A panel of global hunger experts warned this week that the Gaza Strip was on the brink of famine, but to many Gazans, it feels as if it is already here. “I swear our stomachs are decaying,” said Eman Abu Jaljum, 23, whose family in northern Gaza has been surviving off canned peas and beans. In a report issued on Tuesday, the experts said that almost half a million people in the territory faced starvation. They stopped short of declaring a famine, a designation that depends on a variety of criteria being met. “We are living in a famine that is more extreme than ever before,” Ms. Abu Jaljum said.

Persons: “, ”, Abu Jaljum, Ms Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza City

“I swear our stomachs are decaying,” said Eman Abu Jaljum, 23, whose family in northern Gaza has been surviving off canned peas and beans. “We are living in a famine that is more extreme than ever before,” Ms. Abu Jaljum said. Credit... Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesOne of his daughters, Mr. al-Sapti said, asked for eggs, but there were none to be found. In the north, bread has become more available as some bakeries in Gaza City reopen their doors, said Mr. al-Sapti. But Mr. al-Sapti worries that the bakeries may soon run out of fuel.

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☆ At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Declan Walsh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine said on Thursday. At least 14 areas across the country are near famine, including some in the capital, Khartoum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of experts from U.N. bodies and major relief agencies that measures hunger and formally declares famine. The dire update appeared to confirm warnings from aid experts that Sudan is hurtling toward a humanitarian disaster on a scale not seen in decades. “This is possibly the crisis of a generation,” said Edouard Rodier, Europe director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, who was in western Sudan last week. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Persons: ”, Edouard Rodier, “ I’ve Organizations: Integrated, Norwegian Refugee Council Locations: Sudan, Khartoum, Europe

☆ Gaza population at risk of famine as it continues to face emergency levels of hunger, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“A high risk of famine persists across the whole of the Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access is restricted,” the report said. The Rafah crossing – a key transitway for humanitarian aid to Gaza – has been closed since early May, and only a handful of other land crossings remain open. Humanitarian aid workers continue to face tremendous risks to try to distribute the desperately needed aid to Gaza. “The humanitarian space in the Gaza Strip continues to shrink and the ability to safely deliver assistance to populations is dwindling,” the report said. “The humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, and the specter of famine continues to hang over Gaza,” Phillips-Barrasso told CNN.

Persons: “, Gaza –, Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Israel, Matthew Miller, dory, it’s, ”, Cindy McCain, “ There’s, It’s, Kate Phillips, ” Phillips, Barrasso, Philippe Lazzarini Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Integrated, IPC, ”, Food, Mercy Corps, “, UNRWA Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, United States

Doctors told CNN they are being forced to turn away parents begging for baby milk, unable to even triage young patients with chronic illnesses compounded by severe hunger. Dozens of other Gazans crowd together to access water as aid workers nearby distribute thick, steaming red soup from large saucepans. It is God’s decision, but it is caused by people,” her father, Ahmed Maqat, told CNN, after she died on Saturday. But health workers told CNN there are few alternatives, with shortages of lactose free or soya milk for infants. Children line up for food aid in Jabalya refugee camp, the northern Gaza, on June 13.

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☆ Food hoarding is a problem. Here is what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Food hoarding can vary depending on the access the person has to buying food, Daigle said. It is interesting to talk about food hoarding after the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, because food hoarding served a purpose in that time, Daigle said. Some people engaging in food hoarding behaviors may isolate out of shame or feel more comfortable being around food versus being out in public. Some eating disorders have food hoarding as part of their behaviors, and the same experience may drive people to cope with both hoarding and eating disorder behaviors, she said. But shortages of other things children need may also lead to food hoarding, Daigle said.

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A Massacre Threatens Darfur — AgainDarfur SUDAN El FasherA civil war is ripping apart Sudan, one of Africa’s largest countries. Yet a New York Times examination of satellite imagery and video from El Fasher make one thing clear:The assault is intensifying. DARFUR R.S.F. Whole neighborhoods were razed, similar to the destruction in parts of southern and eastern El Fasher in recent months. “The videos from El Fasher could become critical evidence in future trials for crimes in Darfur.”

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☆ Israel’s Daily Combat Pause in Part of Gaza: How Is It Working?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Israel has said that the partial daily suspension of its military activity in a part of southern Gaza, which began over the weekend, is aimed at making it safer for humanitarian groups to deliver aid in the territory. Here’s a look at how the pause works and whether aid workers believe it is likely to alleviate civilian suffering that the United Nations says borders on famine. The military said on Sunday it had paused operations during daylight hours in parts of southern Gaza. The policy applies to a seven-mile-long strip of southeastern Gaza surrounding a major stretch of road. It does not include coastal areas where Palestinians have fled since Israel began an invasion of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza in early May.

Persons: Israel Locations: Gaza, United Nations, Israel, Rafah

☆ U.S. Pier for Gaza Aid Is Failing, and Could Be Dismantled Early
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Helene Cooper | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The $230 million temporary pier that the U.S. military built on short notice to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza has largely failed in its mission, aid organizations say, and will probably end operations weeks earlier than originally expected. In the month since it was attached to the shoreline, the pier has been in service only about 10 days. But even the modest goals for the pier are likely to fall short, some American military officials say. When the pier was conceived, health authorities were warning that the territory was on the precipice of famine. In recent weeks, Israel has given relief organizations greater access, but the groups say the situation remains dire.

Persons: Biden Organizations: . Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Opinion | U.N. Humanitarian Chief: World Leaders Are Failing Us
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Martin Griffiths | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I have spent much of my career in or on the edges of war zones, but nothing quite prepared me for the breadth and depth of human suffering I have witnessed in my three years as the United Nations’ humanitarian chief. The early months of my tenure were consumed with the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and the effort to get more than a trickle of food and other aid to some five million people who had been cut off from the outside world by brutal fighting. Tremors were felt around the world as food prices rose and geopolitical tensions deepened. Just over a year later, the atrocious conflict in Sudan broke out. As two generals have battled for power, thousands have been killed, millions displaced, and ethnic-based violence has once again emerged as famine looms.

Organizations: United Nations Locations: Ethiopia’s Tigray, Ukraine, Kyiv, Sudan

☆ Middle East Crisis Israeli Military Says Hezbollah’s Strikes Risk ‘Wider Escalation’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Mike Ives | Randy Pennell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The change did not mean a cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, that statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost city of Rafah was continuing. The whipsaw statements appeared to reflect the competing pressures facing Mr. Netanyahu, as he juggles demands from the Biden administration and elsewhere around the globe with those of his own hawkish government. But Mr. Netanyahu insinuated that he did not learn of the plans until Sunday morning. Image Children waiting for food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. Credit... Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock“It’s classic Bibi,” said Amos Harel, the military affairs analyst for the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, referring to Mr. Netanyahu by his nickname.

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☆ Israeli Daytime Pause in Combat Appears to Take Hold in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Shashank Bengali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The change did not mean a cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, that statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost city of Rafah was continuing. The whipsaw statements appeared to reflect the competing pressures facing Mr. Netanyahu, as he juggles demands from the Biden administration and elsewhere around the globe with those of his own hawkish government. But Mr. Netanyahu insinuated that he did not learn of the plans until Sunday morning. Image Children waiting for food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. At least 10 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat this weekend and an 11th died of wounds sustained days earlier.

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