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At least 67 people have been wounded in a drone attack in northern Israel, according to Israeli emergency services and local media, as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military camp with a “swarm” of drones. Israeli Army Radio reported that at least four people were critically wounded in the attack on Sunday in the town of Binyamina, south of Haifa According to Israel’s Channel 12, no warning sirens were heard before the attack. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the strike. In a statement, the Iran-aligned group said it launched a “swarm of drones” at a Golani Brigade camp. The Golani Brigade is one of the five infantry brigades of the regular Israeli army and regarded as an elite unit In a separate statement, Hezbollah said it ...

Raysal wasaare ku xigeenka Xukuumadda Fedaraalka Soomaaliya Saalax Axmed Jaamac ayaa ka horyimid talaabadii guddoomiyaha Aqalka sare uu Shalay uga xayuubiyay xubinimadii kursiga Golaha Aqalka sare. Bayaan uu soo saaray maanta ayuu Mr Saalax wax lala yaabo ku tilmamaay go'aanka gudoomiyaha aqalka sare. Waxaa uu farta ku fiiqay in tallaabada gudoomiyaha ay tahay mid baal-marsan shacriga iyo dastuurka dalka. “Waxaan halkan ka caddeynayaa in warqadda uu soo saaray guddoomiye Cabdi Xaashi inaanay lahayn wax saldhig sharci ah oo ay tahay waxba kama jiraan” ayuu yiri bayaankiisa ku yiri Saalax Axmed Jaamac Raysal wasaare ku xigeenka Xukuumadda Fedaraalka Soomaaliya Saalax Axmed Jaamac ayaa carabka ku adkeeyay in uusan jirin sanatar awood u leh in u aqalka ka saaro senatar kale. "Wa...

Path to self-destruction’: Survivors recall horrors of nuclear bombings as they draw parallels to ongoing wars. Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, won the prize on Friday for its “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons” On Saturday, Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki by the United States and co-leader of the group, said the “international situation is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons”. “I fear that we as humankind are on the ...

The United Nations children’s agency says one in eight girls and young women across the world have endured rape and sexual violence, with the highest number of victims recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. UNICEF published its first-ever global estimate on sexual violence against children, revealing that 79 million girls – one in five – in sub-Saharan countries hit by conflict and insecurity had experienced sexual assault or rape before turning 18. It’s terrifying,” said Nankali Maksud, a child violence specialist at UNICEF based in Nairobi, Kenya. “It is generations of trauma.” Girls who had suffered the trauma of sexual abuse were often unable to learn at school, she said. Globally, UNICEF estimates that sexual violence has affected some 370 million – or one in eight – gi...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations is considering suspending relief operations, including food aid deliveries, in Ethiopia's Amhara region, following deadly attacks on humanitarian workers, according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters and verified by two diplomats. Five aid workers were killed in the first six months of 2024, 10 were physically assaulted or injured and 11 kidnapped by unidentified criminal groups, according to the document which is dated August 2024. The three-page document, which is marked "internal", states that the U.N. is "seriously considering implementing a temporary cessation of relief operations in the region." Several NGOs and donors have already opposed the move, according to three sources familiar with discussions surrounding the proposal. A cessa...

Scientists David Baker, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on proteins, the building blocks of life that are found in every cell of the body. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday announced half of the prize to Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Hassabis and Jumper “for protein structure prediction While Baker built entirely new kinds of proteins, Hassabis and Jumper developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures, said the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Heiner Linke, chair of the committee, said scientists had long dreamed of predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins In 2020, Hassabis and Jum...

8" October "2024" Kenya's lawmakers vote to impeach deputy president, speaker says Kenya's parliament voted on Tuesday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on charges including enriching himself and stirring ethnic hatred, the chamber's speaker said, sending the motion to the Senate for trial. The impeachment motion on Tuesday accused the 59-year-old deputy to President William Ruto of corruption, insubordination, undermining the government and practising ethnically divisive politics, among a host of other charges According to the results … of the motion that I’ve just declared, a total of 281 members being more than two-thirds of the members of the National Assembly have voted in support of the motion,” Parliament Speaker Moses Wetang’ula said. There were 44 votes agai...

River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of growing demand, says a United Nations weather agency’s report. According to the State of Global Water Resources report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday, there was “severe stress on global water supplies, with five consecutive years of below-normal river flows and reservoir inflows Prolonged droughts cut river flows in large parts of North, Central and South America with the Mississippi and Amazon River basins reporting record low water levels in 2023, said the report, based on data going back 33 years The Ganges and Mekong River basins also experienced below-average conditions, the report added. Overall, 50 percent of global catch...

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. Ten journalists who have covered the war on Gaza for two of the world’s leading news networks, CNN and the BBC, have revealed the inner workings of those outlets’ newsrooms from October 7 onward, alleging pro-Israel bias in coverage, systematic double standards and frequent violations of journalistic principles. In several cases, they accused senior newsroom figures of failing to hold Israeli officials to account and of interfering in reporting to downplay Israeli atrocities. In one instance at CNN, false Israeli propaganda was put on air despite advance warnings from staff members. The journalists spoke to Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post, a weekly programme dissecting the world’s media...

Rwanda is fighting its first outbreak of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus which was first reported in late September. As of Thursday, 11 people were reported to have died of the virus in Rwanda. The health minister announced the country will begin clinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments What is the Marburg virus? Marburg is from the same family as Ebola, namely the Filoviridae family (filovirus) of viruses. It has been described as more severe than Ebola. It causes a haemorrhagic fever, which is a type of fever that can damage the walls of blood vessels, according to information from the Mayo Clinic. Other diseases which produce this type of fever include dengue and yellow fever. According to the Mayo Clinic, a haemorrhagic fever causes...