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The demonstrations – a regular occurrence – were notable for taking place despite urgent security warnings as Israel braces for a possible strike from Iran. Videos showed protestors waving Israeli flags and holding up signs with images of the Israeli hostages. Of that number, 111 hostages were taken during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, which killed over 1,200 people. “The head of the Mossad did not say that there was a deal ready and that it should be accepted. “While Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to the deal outline, Hamas has been trying to introduce dozens of changes that, de facto, nullify the outline,” the statement said.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ismail Haniyeh, “ We’re, ”, “, ‘, Netanyahu’s, Yair Lapid, Netanyahu, Gil Cohen, David Barnea, Shin Bet, banged, CNN’s Eugenia Yosef, Larry Organizations: CNN, Hamas, IDF, Minister’s Office, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, United Nations, Israeli Prime, Magen, Getty, ” Locations: Israel, Gaza, Iran, Tehran, Tel Aviv, AFP

At least 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others abducted to Gaza in Hamas’ October 7 assault, according to Israeli authorities. Israel’s military response in the strip has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians and injured over 90,000, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. As of early July, nearly 2 million people had been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population, according to UN figures. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters“Brief window”: There are 111 hostages still in Gaza, including 39 believed to be dead, according to data from Netanyahu’s office. Iran and Hamas have blamed the assassination on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in his killing.

Persons: Ricardo Moraes, Benjamin Netanyahu, “ Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Nissan Kalderon, Ofer Kalderon, Anat Angrest, Matan Angrest, Ismail Haniyeh Organizations: Reuters, Gaza’s Ministry of Health Locations: Gaza, Tel Aviv, Israel, Iran

☆ Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its 'uncommitted' stance on Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Yamiche Alcindor | Yamiche Alcindor Is An Nbc News Washington Correspondent. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The first national Muslim organization that had declared itself "uncommitted" on President Joe Biden's re-election bid is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy. “She has shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza then both President Biden and former President Donald Trump,” Suswell said of Harris. The group’s endorsement is significant given the backlash the Biden administration has faced from the Muslim community over its handling of the war. “It wasn’t an easy meeting for the president,” Suswell said. I think she’s more open to having conversations around ending the war.”Suswell added that her group was also moved to support Harris publicly because of her stances on domestic issues.

Persons: Joe Biden's, Kamala Harris, Salima Suswell, Biden, Donald Trump, ” Suswell, Harris, “, Netanyahu’s, Suswell, ”, ” Harris, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Donald Trump’s, Trump Organizations: Muslim, Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund, NBC, Black Muslim Leadership Council, Biden, Israeli, White Locations: Gaza, Israel, Selma , Alabama, ”, Wisconsin , Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Palestine

☆ Maui Wildfire Plaintiffs Reach $4 Billion Settlement as Anniversary Nears
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Shawn Hubler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly a year after a ferocious wildfire on Maui killed 102 people and leveled the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii’s largest utility has agreed to pay the largest share of a legal settlement totaling just over $4 billion and compensating more than 10,000 homeowners, businesses and other plaintiffs. The proposed agreement was filed late Friday in a Maui-based state court, six days before the anniversary of the disaster. Fire victims and insurers have spent months in court-ordered mediation with the state, Maui County, large private landowners and utilities within the fire zone to resolve more than 600 lawsuits brought in state and federal courts by survivors of the catastrophe. More than 3,000 homes and other structures were damaged or destroyed, and thousands of residents were killed, injured or displaced. Josh Green had pushed for a single global agreement among all the parties to litigation to swiftly compensate fire victims, rather than extending negotiations for years without payment.

Persons: Josh Green Organizations: Gov, Hawaiian Electric Locations: Lahaina, Maui, Maui County, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Hawaii

☆ Battle for Lashio: Civilians caught in the crossfire as rebels claim major victory over Myanmar’s junta
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Helen Regan | Angus Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Displaced people fleeing fighting in Lashio try to cross the flooded road to Taunggyi in Myanmar's northern Shan state on July 9, 2024. For Lashio to fall, “it basically eliminates the junta as an effective organized force from a huge part of the country,” Ruser said. The road on the way was badly damaged,” he said as he traveled to Taunggyi, the Shan state capital some nine hours south of Lashio. People queue for food at a monastery turned temporary shelter for internally displaced people in Lashio, Shan state on November 15, 2023. There were also reports in local media that the junta had ordered its staff to leave Lashio as fighting got closer.

Persons: Khin, ” Khin Swe, ”, “, Lashio “, Zaw Min Tun, Lashio, Stringer, Nathan Ruser, ” Ruser, Swe, Khin Swe, –, Arakan Army –, “ They’re, Miemie Winn Byrd, Daniel K, Inouye, ” Byrd, “ I’m, Min Aung, I’m, they’re Organizations: CNN, Northeastern Military Command, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Junta, Getty, Analysts, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “ Artillery, Facebook, Rebels, Three Brotherhood Alliance, People’s Defence Force, National Liberation Army, Arakan Army, US Army, Pacific Center for Security, Brotherhood Alliance Locations: Myanmar, Lashio, Shan, Zaw, Taunggyi, AFP, Zin Ann, Hsipaw, Mandalay, Arakan, Inouye Asia

☆ Famine declared in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region after months of civil war
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Famine has officially been declared in at least one refugee camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, food security organizations announced, a stark warning of the cost being paid by the population after 15 months of civil war. Famine has been ongoing in the Zanzam camp near the city of El Fasher since June, according to the United Nations-backed Famine Review Committee (FRC). The last time the FRC declared a famine was in 2017, when 80,000 people in South Sudan faced famine conditions in parts of Unity State after three years of civil war. Although this was also limited to the Zanzam camp, it warned famine could spread across the rest of El Fasher, which is home to an additional estimated 800,000 people. Both groups warned the famine at Zanzam is likely to last at least until October and potentially much longer.

Persons: El Fasher, ” El Fasher Organizations: CNN, United Nations, Committee, Rapid Support Forces, Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, UN, Food Programme, Getty, FRC, Unity State, NET, Systems Locations: Darfur, Sudan, El, Sudan’s North Darfur, Khartoum, El Fasher, AFP, South Sudan, Unity, Somalia, Zanzam

☆ Why workers who lose their jobs to AI will be better off than the Midwest manufacturing employees of two decades ago
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Similar to US manufacturing workers who lost their jobs in recent decades to advancements like automation, those displaced by AI could find themselves without the skills needed for the modern workforce. It comes down to when — and where — AI job losses are likely to materialize. Davis said there are several reasons workers who are displaced by AI should have an easier time finding work than many manufacturing workers of the past. Impacted workers in cities would be more likely to have job opportunities than workers where manufacturing jobs were concentrated, which often were in the Midwest. Widespread AI job displacement won't happen for at least a decadeWhile Davis is uncertain about the timing and scale of AI job displacement, he said he doesn't expect AI to drive major job losses over the next decade.

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☆ How Does Your State Make Electricity?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Nadja Popovich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

Wind turbines provided just 1 percent of the electricity produced in the state in 2001 and nearly 60 percent last year. How Kentucky made electricity from 2001 to 2023 Percentage of power produced from each energy sourceCoal still generates the majority of the electricity produced in Kentucky, a longtime coal mining state. Since then, virtually all of the electricity produced in the state has come from renewable sources, including hydropower, biomass, wind and solar. It has supplied more than 85 percent of the electricity produced in the state every year for more than two decades. Last year, wind supplied more than a fifth of the electricity produced in the state.

Now as a 30-year-old, he will compete in the 10,000-meter race, representing the International Olympic Committee’s refugee team for the second time in his career. It’s not for you.’ He couldn’t be here.”Abdelmaji left for a high-altitude training camp in Ethiopia for several weeks last fall before returning to Tel Aviv. "You represent the refugees around the world.”Jamal Abdelmaji, right, trains for Paris 2024 at a Tel Aviv running track. Stopped by Israeli soldiers, he spent the first days in a refugee camp before he was sent to Tel Aviv. Really, really looking forward to it.

Persons: Jamal Abdelmaji, Mohammed, Abdelmaji, “, ”, ” Abdelmaji, Hili Avinoam, It’s, it’s, ” Jamal Abdelmaji, Carlo Angerer, Rotem Genossar, ” Genossar, Avinoam, ” Avinoam, Asaf Roz, Roz, who's, “ We’ve, he’s Organizations: Olympic, IOC, Rio Games, NBC News, Paris, NBC, Alley, Olympic Games Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Darfur, Sudan, Israeli, Ethiopia, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Paris, Tokyo, Omdurman, Sudan’s, Khartoum, Canada, Cairo

☆ Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Nimi Princewill | Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The state’s police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun told CNN in a statement that operatives arrested 11 armed “hoodlums” who set fire to a government building after looting it. Activist and lawyer Deji Adeyanju told CNN Thursday that there were counter-demonstrations by pro-government protesters who arrived in buses accompanied by a security vehicle. “In the northern part of Nigeria, the largest part of our country … the primary cause of hunger is insecurity. He added that Nigerians were also pained watching their leaders live in luxury while they struggled to make ends meet. Analysts told CNN at the time it was “hypocrisy” for the government to spend on luxuries while impoverished citizens suffer hardship.

Persons: Bosun Tijani, Wasiu Abiodun, hoodlums ”, Abiodun, Benson Ibeabuchi, Deji Adeyanju, Josephine Adeh, ”, …, We’ll, ” Dele, “ unifies, Bola Tinubu, Tinubu, Mohammed Idris, “, ” Farotimi, Sulaimon Organizations: CNN, Innovation, Communications, Bloomberg, Getty, Kaduna Police Command, Nigeria ’, Channels Television, ”, “, Nigeria’s Locations: Nigeria, Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Kano, Abuja, Niger, Ikeja, Lagos, Kaduna, AFP

☆ Israeli military says it killed Hamas armed wing leader Mohammed Deif in Gaza airstrike last month
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Israel's military on Thursday said it killed the chief of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in July. "We can now confirm: Mohammed Deif was eliminated," the Israel Defense Forces posted on its official X account. The October attack set off the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, now in its tenth month, and the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza enclave that local authorities say has killed more than 39,000 people. The Israeli military said that the strike that killed Deif took place on July 13 and hit a compound on the outskirts of Khan Younis, near a tent encampment for displaced Palestinian people. Gallant added: "Israel's defense establishment will pursue Hamas terrorists — both the planners and the perpetrators of the 07.10 massacre.

Persons: Khan Yunis, Mohammed Deif, Khan Younis, Deif, Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Yoav Gallant, Osama Bin Laden, Gallant, — Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, CNBC, Israeli Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Khan, Tehran, Hamas, Iran

☆ South Sudan is on the rise at the Olympics, just as Luol Deng envisioned it
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Marcus Thompson Ii | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

And that’s way bigger than wins and losses.”Really cool scene outside the arena after USA vs. South Sudan. Back on July 20, in London, South Sudan came within a couple possessions late of upsetting America in an exhibition. In the 11 days since the near upset of the century, South Sudan was searched an estimated 152,000 times. Then, in the country’s Olympics debut, South Sudan beat Puerto Rico to make national history. “There’s a lot of jokes in the media, a lot of people saying certain things about South Sudan.

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☆ Palestinian homes were destroyed ‘for revenge,’ says Israeli soldier who served in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Ami Kaufman | Bianna Golodryga | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

At least 1,200 people were killed, and more than 250 others abducted in the assault, according to Israeli authorities. Israeli military action in the strip has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians and injured over 90,000, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. A view of destruction in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on December 17, 2023, after weeks of Israeli bombardment. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images/File‘We don’t care enough’ about Palestinian livesThe war in Gaza has caused widespread material destruction to homes, infrastructure, hospitals and schools. “We’ve seen a lot of destruction that was not necessarily related to military reasons.

Persons: Yuval Green, Green, –, I’m, ” Green, …, ’ Green, Khan Younis, ”, “, Khan Younis …, We’re, Mahmud Hams, “ We’ve, Ahmad Hasaballah, ” “, ‘ I’m, Israel’s, Menahem Kahana, I’ve, Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, United Nations, West Bank, Getty, IDF, ” CNN, Military, Investigation Locations: Gaza, Israel, Israeli, Khan, AFP, “, Rafah, Palestine

Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman, Rami Al-Rifi, who lived in the besieged enclave, were killed in an airstrike on their car in the al Shati refugee camp, according to the Qatar-based network. Al-Ghoul was wearing a press flak vest when he was killed, according to his colleague. Israel must stop killing journalists.”Khader Al-Za’anoun of Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, recalled his friendship with the Al Jazeera journalist. Al Jazeera reporters Yousef Al Saudi and Anas Al Sharif could be seen breaking down as they held Al-Ghoul’s bloodied flak jacket. “Our colleague Ismail was wearing this blood-stained vest,” fellow Al Jazeera journalist Yousef Al Saudi said, as he removed the “PRESS” sign from the jacket.

Persons: Al, Ismail Al, Ghoul, Rami Al, Rifi, Ismail Haniyeh, Zeina, ”, “ Zeina, …, ” Al Jazeera, Mohamed Moawad, Ismail, Al Jazeera, Rami, Ayman Abed, Israel, ‘, “, Jodie Ginsberg, ” Khader, Yousef Al Saudi, Anas Al Sharif, Al Sharif, Wadi, “ Ismail Organizations: CNN, ” CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Protect Journalists, Al, Ministry of Health, “ Journalists, International Federation of Journalists, Ahli Baptist, Hospital Locations: Al, Gaza, Qatar, Tehran, Israel, Egypt, ‘ Israel, Wafa, Al Jazeera, Ahli, Gaza City

☆ Luol Deng: Former NBA All-Star on the rise of South Sudan’s basketball team
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Amanda Davies | Samuel Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

South Sudan’s men’s basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 90-79 in Paris on Sunday in its first ever appearance at the Games, but the result meant more than just picking up two points in Group C. For South Sudan Basketball Federation President Luol Deng, it was the culmination of everything that he and the team had worked so hard to achieve. “When the national anthem was sung, you know, it just gave me goosebumps, and I realized that this was bigger than basketball,” Deng told CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies. He was born in Wau, in what is now South Sudan, before the country’s independence. South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan in 2011 following a referendum, making it the world’s newest widely-recognized state. South Sudan players celebrate after defeating Puerto Rico.

Persons: Luol Deng, ” Deng, Amanda Davies, Deng, I’ve, didn’t, we’ve, Royal Ivey, ”, Christina Pahnke, We’ve, “ We’ve, “, we’re, –, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry Organizations: CNN, Puerto Rico, South Sudan Basketball Federation, Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Second Sudanese, Duke, Chicago, South, United Nations, Olympics, USA, Team USA Locations: Paris, Wau, South Sudan, Egypt, London, England, Great Britain, Sudan

☆ Killing of Hamas leader leaves Gaza ceasefire hopes dangling by a thread
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The assassination of the political leader of Hamas has plunged the Middle East into fresh crisis and dented already slim hopes of an end to the war between Israel and the militant group that rules Gaza anytime soon. Here’s what the killing of the Hamas and Hezbollah leaders means for the Gaza war and the region. “Netanyahu has systematically sabotaged ceasefire talks because ending the war will likely end his political career,” said Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, a US-based foreign policy think tank, in a post on X. A faltered negotiation process also extends the risk to the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza. “This is the time for a deal.”There are 111 hostages still in Gaza, including 39 believed to be dead, according to data from Netanyahu’s office.

Persons: Israel, Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh, ”, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, Benjamin Netanyahu, –, “ Netanyahu, “, Netanyahu, Jalaa Marey, Gershon Baskin, Baskin, ” Baskin, Gaza’s, Anwar, Antony Blinken, Biden, ” Hellyer, CNN’s Becky Anderson Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Quincy Institute, Palestinian, Getty, Families, Anwar Amro, Hellyer, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, Royal United Services Institute for Defense, Security Studies, Israel Locations: Israel, Gaza, Tehran, Iran, Beirut, Golan, Qatar, Egypt, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al, Thani, Doha, US, Karmiel, AFP, Beirut's, United States, London

As Hamas’s political leader, he was central to the group’s high-stakes negotiations and diplomacy, including the stalled cease-fire deal negotiations with Israel. Here is what we know:Leader of Hamas in GazaMr. Haniyeh was named the leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2006. Mr. Haniyeh led Hamas from Qatar and Turkey in recent years. He was arrested by the Israeli military and served several sentences in Israeli jails in the 1980s and 1990s. The two were targets of an attempted Israeli assassination attempt in 2003; the next year, Mr. Yassin was killed by the Israeli military.

Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh, Yemen —, Iran’s, Sheik Yassin, Yassin, Mr, Haniyeh’s, “, ” Mr, he’d Organizations: United Nations, UNRWA, Islamic, of Gaza, Mr, International Locations: Qatar, Iran, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Yemen, Israel, Palestinian, Turkey, Egypt, United States, Gaza City, Ashkelon, Shifa

☆ Opinion | As the World Looks Elsewhere, Famine Descends on Darfur
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sudan has in this century endured genocide, civil war and partition, and now its crisis has worsened. Famine has officially been declared in part of the Darfur region in western Sudan. Malnutrition is widespread around the world — about one-fifth of all children globally are physically stunted from inadequate food — but this only very rarely rises to the level of famine. In the 21st century, this is only the third official famine, after one in Somalia in 2011 and one in South Sudan in 2017. The famine review committee, a group of independent nutrition experts, declared on Thursday that famine had officially arrived at the Zamzam camp, home to about 500,000 displaced people near the city of El Fasher in Darfur.

Locations: Sudan, Darfur, Gaza, Ukraine, Somalia, South Sudan, El Fasher

☆ Gaza’s Only Humanitarian Zone Has Shrunk by a Fifth Recently
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Hiba Yazbek | Lauren Leatherby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Israeli military has designated just one area of the Gaza Strip as a “humanitarian zone” for displaced people — and that area keeps shrinking. In the latest downsizing, the military on Saturday ordered the evacuation of two more parts of central Gaza that had been part of the humanitarian zone. Similar orders have forced more than 200,000 Palestinians to relocate over the last week alone, according to the United Nations. A New York Times analysis of the latest orders showed that the zone has shrunk by more than a fifth in recent weeks, going from encompassing nearly 17 percent of the Gaza Strip to 13 percent now. Maps and analysis of satellite imagery show that the zone is already overcrowded, frequently damaged by strikes and lacking sufficient medical services.

Organizations: Saturday, United Nations, New York Times, Hamas Locations: Gaza

☆ Opinion | Israel’s Five Wars
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The world will soon know the shape and scale of Israel’s response to Hezbollah for Saturday’s rocket attack on a Druze town in the Golan Heights, which killed 12 children. But it’s not too soon to ask what purpose the expected retaliation will serve in the context of Israel’s five wars. Israel’s most strident critics insist that the current conflict is about Palestinian existence, about Israel’s alleged refusal to grant a Palestinian homeland. Israel agreed to a Palestinian Authority in 1993, offered a Palestinian state in 2000 and vacated the Gaza Strip in 2005. When campus protesters at Princeton chanted, “We don’t want no two states, we want ’48,” they weren’t asking for Israel to accept a Palestinian state.

Persons: it’s, Israel, Israel’s Organizations: West Bank, Hezbollah, Palestinian Authority, Princeton Locations: Golan, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Palestinian

CNN —At least 43 people have died following major landslides in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said Tuesday. A massive rescue operation is underway in Kerala’s northeastern district of Wayanad, involving 250 people from the national and state disaster rescue force and the Kerala fire services, PM Manoj, Press Secretary to the Kerala Chief Minister, told CNN. “We don’t know if people have been washed away in the river but we are doing our best to rescue people. Rescuers help residents move to a safer place after multiple landslides hit Wayanad, in the southern state of Kerala, India, on July 30, 2024. In a post to X, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “distressed by the landslides in parts of Wayanad.

Persons: Manoj, ” Saseendran, Kowsigan, Stringer, ”, George, Narendra Modi, “, gratia Organizations: CNN, “, Reuters, “ Helicopters, Indian Locations: Kerala, Kerala’s, Wayanad, India, South Asia, China

Palestinians returned to the eastern side of Khan Younis in Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli forces pulled out of the area. The Israeli military has designated just one area of the Gaza Strip as a “humanitarian zone” for displaced people — and that area keeps shrinking. In the latest downsizing, the military on Saturday ordered the evacuation of two more parts of central Gaza that had been part of the humanitarian zone. Since last week, Israel has evacuated more than a fifth of the area that it had previously declared a humanitarian zone. There is no more place for any tents at the beach or in Mawasi,” he added, referring to the humanitarian zone.

Persons: Khan Younis, Philippe Lazzarini, Mr, Lazzarini, Mohammed Harbi, Harbi, Duaa, ”, Fura, “, Osama, Sammak, Abu Bakr Bashir, Ameera Harouda Organizations: Saturday, United Nations, New York Times, Hamas, “, Sunday Locations: Gaza, Israel, Deir al, ISRAEL, Rafah EGYPT Rafah, Kerem Shalom, Rafah EGYPT, Shalom, Rafah, Khan, Nuseirat, Bureij, Deir, Mawasi, London, Doha, Qatar, Istanbul

☆ Khartoum: Women and girls subjected to widespread sexual violence by warring parties, HRW report finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Of those, 18 had provided direct care to a total of 262 survivors of sexual violence, aged from 9 through 60. The RSF has also pillaged medical supplies, according to the report, and some fighters “have on occasion perpetrated acts of sexual violence” against healthcare providers. One healthcare provider recalled being told not to report instances of sexual violence to the UN. CNN has previously reported on the RSF’s campaign of killings, enslavement and sexual violence, conducted behind a curtain of secrecy. The report added that the UN Security Council should call on the warring parties to end sexual violence and impose targeted sanctions against the commanders and perpetrators responsible for the atrocities.

Persons: “, Women ”, , ”, Laetitia Bader, shivering –, ’, HRW Organizations: CNN, Rapid Support Forces, Human Rights Watch, Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, United Nations, Women, HRW, AFP, Getty, UN Locations: Sudan, Khartoum, Darfur, Sudan’s, Africa, Gedaref, AFP

☆ How 5G technology is helping curb carbon emissions and waste at the Paris Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Installing and using 5G technology could help minimize the Olympics' environmental impacts. Sustainability initiatives also extend to the 5G technology powering the Olympic Games. Orange, the telecommunications provider for the Paris Games, has set itself the goal of limiting its carbon emissions to 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Environmentally friendly technology that can support more fansThough 5G systems require infrastructure installation, their technology is more sustainable than older connectivity systems like analog distributed antenna systems, Swank said. Recycling 5G equipment for more sustainabilityTo work toward its carbon-emissions goal for the Paris Games, Orange decreased its equipment manufacturing and infrastructure-deployment footprint.

Persons: —, Kevin Swank, Swank, CommScope, Kelvin Chaffer, Chaffer Organizations: Service, Games, Janeiro Games, Social Sciences, Paris Games, Olympic Games, T, Dallas Cowboys, Paris Olympics, Software Locations: Rio, France, Germany, Arlington , Texas, Orange

☆ The Israel-Hezbollah war that no one wants could finally blow up
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Analysis Elliott Gotkine | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“We are approaching the moment of an all-out war against Hezbollah,” he said in an Israeli television interview on Saturday evening. And yet, over the past near-10 months of fighting, Israel, Hezbollah and Iran have always pulled back from what appeared to be the brink. All-out war failed to materialise. All-out war failed to materialise. The best way to avoid all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, says Blinken, is to get a ceasefire in Gaza.

Persons: Amos Hochstein, Joe Biden’s, ”, Majdal Shams, Will Hochstein’s, Israel Katz, Antony Blinken, We’re, Naftali Bennett, “, Aaron David Miller, Israel, can’t, Yoav Gallant, didn’t Organizations: CNN, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, UN, Israeli Locations: Israel, Lebanese, Golan, Chebaa, Lebanon, Majdal, United States, Iran, Beirut, Damascus, Gaza

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