Bij een Russische aanval op de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kyiv is zaterdagochtend vroeg zeker één persoon gedood. Vijftien anderen raakten verwond.

The show ‘Lubach’ reimagined Disney classics under the Trump regime.

Surging demand for powerful AI models drove second-quarter results.

A panel of food security experts have determined that part of Gaza is suffering from famine, and that it could spread to the rest of the enclave within weeks.

The system for classifying food insecurity has been used to declare just four famines since it was established in 2004 Continue reading...

Les experts onusiens ont averti que 500 000 personnes se trouvaient dans un état « catastrophique ».

Maryam Dawas used to weigh 25kg (3st 9lb). Now she weighs nine (1st 4lb). That's about the weight of a baby that hasn't yet reached its first birthday.

Novo Nordisk A/S’s blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy received Food and Drug Administration approval to treat a serious form of liver disease, beating rival Eli Lilly & Co. to the US market for the increasingly prevalent condition.

At least 15 people queueing for food were among the deaths and five people are reported to have died from starvation * Middle East crisis: live updates Israel has stepped up bombing Gaza, killing at least 89 Palestinians in 24 hours, including at least 15 people queueing for food, despite global outcry over the deaths of six journalists in the territory the previous day. Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Gaza City had intensified in the three days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet approved plans to expand the war in the territory. Continue reading...

Anas al-Sharif was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had raised concerns about being killed has died in an Israeli airstrike. Anas al-Sharif, known for documenting the release of hostages and for removing his body armour after a ceasefire, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City along with three colleagues. Continue reading...

Sparen is voor Nederlanders het grootste financiële risico geworden. Het risico van inflatie, gemiste kansen en inadequaat pensioenkapitaal.

Trump’s tax and spending bill extends 2017 cuts but reduces Medicaid and food stamp benefits.

Berlin says it will halt shipments of military equipment that could be used in Gaza.

We have no idea how many people have been killed in Gaza but I would bet my own life that the number is far higher than the 60,000 number the media uses

Le militant de la gauche pacifiste israélienne assure par ailleurs rester « désespérément fidèle » à l’idée d’une solution à deux Etats, la Palestine et Israël, dans une interview pour « La Repubblica ».

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’ The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding. “Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024,” Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian. Continue reading...

More than 100 journalists, photographers and war correspondents have signed a petition demanding "immediate and unsupervised foreign press access to the Gaza Strip".

Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away. “All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, a 38-year-old from Maghazi in central Gaza. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this. Continue reading...

Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA