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      17 October

      Amid humanitarian crisis, Israel urges WHO to allow aid access to Gaza

      WHO and its partners launched second round of a polio vaccination campaign, aiming to immunise over half a million children Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Israel to grant access to Gaza, where escalating violence has blocked humanitarian missions from delivering critical food and medical supplies. Amid the chaos, WHO and its partners launched the second round of a polio vaccination campaign on Monday, aiming to immunise over half a million children, Xinhua news agency reported. “The total number of children who received a second dose of polio vaccine in Gaza after two days of vaccination is 1,56,943,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. However, ongoing violence threatens the campaign’s goal of vaccinating at least 90 per cent of the children, a critical…

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    • 17 October

      Israeli military says intercepted two rockets launched from Gaza

      Following the launches on Wednesday evening, sirens were sounded in the southern Israeli city of Sderot and nearby villages. Jerusalem: Two rockets fired from the northern Gaza Strip were intercepted by Israeli air defence systems, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. Following the launches on Wednesday evening, sirens were sounded in the southern Israeli city of Sderot and nearby villages, reports Xinhua news agency. Sirens were also activated later in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, with no casualties reported. Earlier in the day, Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service reported that four people were slightly injured following the launch of 30 projectiles from Lebanon into the Upper Galilee. Also on Wednesday, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian…

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    • 17 October

      Nijjar killing: Trudeau admits he had no hard proof against Indian agents

      Claims Indian diplomats were collecting information on Canadians who are in disagreement with Modi government, passing it to highest levels within Indian government and criminal organisations such as Lawrence Bishnoi gang Ottawa: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday acknowledged that he had only intelligence and no “hard evidentiary proof” when he alleged the involvement of Indian government agents in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year. Testifying before the public inquiry into foreign interference in federal electoral processes and democratic institutions, Trudeau claimed the Indian diplomats were collecting information on Canadians who are in disagreement with the Narendra Modi government and passing it to the highest levels within the Indian government and criminal organisations like the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. “I was briefed on the fact that there was…

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    • 16 October

      Gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria kills 90, injures 50: Police

      The explosion took place after midnight in Jigawa state when the tanker driver lost control of the vehicle while traveling on a highway near a university, according to police spokesperson Lawan Adam. Abuja: More than 90 people have been killed and 50 others injured after a gasoline tanker overturned in Nigeria and sparked an explosion as dozens of people rushed to the vehicle to scoop up the fuel, police said Wednesday. The explosion occurred past midnight in Jigawa state after the tanker driver lost control of the vehicle while traveling on a highway close to a university, police spokesperson Lawan Adam said. “The residents were scooping up fuel from the overturned tanker when the explosion occurred, sparking a massive inferno that…

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    • 16 October

      World’s 2nd Sphere to be built in UAE capital

      Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism and Sphere Entertainment Co. announced plans late Tuesday to bring a Sphere to the Middle East. The announcement did not provide details on financing or the specific location for the Sphere in the Emirati capital. Officials from both Sphere and the Abu Dhabi government did not respond to inquiries about the project on Wednesday. Dubai: The world’s second Sphere will be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after the opening of the first in Las Vegas. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism and Sphere Entertainment Co. announced the plan late Tuesday to bring a Sphere to the Middle East. The announcement offered no financing information, nor did it say where…

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    • 16 October

      Canadian Air Force plane ferries stranded Air India pax after bomb threat

      The flight had 211 passengers, including 20 crew members New Delhi: A Canadian Air Force aircraft is ferrying stranded passengers of an Air India flight from Iqaluit airport to Chicago, hours after the flight was diverted to the airport due to a bomb threat. The flight had 211 passengers, including 20 crew members. In a statement on Wednesday, Air India said, passengers of flight AI127, which was diverted to Iqaluit in Canada on October 15, are on their way to their destination — Chicago. “Passengers are being ferried on a Canadian Air Force aircraft that has taken off from Iqaluit at 03:54 hrs UTC and is expected to land in Chicago at around 07:48 hrs UTC,” the airline said. The UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)…

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    • 16 October

      US presses Israel on improving Gaza humanitarian situation within next 30 days

      According to a report by CNN, the letter warned that should Israel fail to make more humanitarian aid accessible to Gazans, the country would risk violating US laws governing foreign military assistance. As a result, US military aid to Israel could be in jeopardy Washington: The Joe Biden administration has confirmed that US Secretaries of State and Defence co-signed a letter last week that was sent to their Israeli counterparts, urging Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days. During a press briefing on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed to reporters the letter co-signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin that was addressed to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Affairs…

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    • 15 October

      Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to ‘strike Hezbollah without compassion’

      Airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon kills at least 21 people, according to Lebanese Red Cross Lebanon: An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. The Israeli military did not immediately comment and the target was not clear. The strike hit a small apartment building in the village of Aito, which is part of the country’s Christian heartland in the north and far from the Hezbollah militant group’s main areas of influence in the south and east. Rescue workers in Aito searched through the rubble of the building as ambulances stood by to receive the bodies of victims. Nearby buildings and cars were damaged in the strike. The…

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    • 15 October

      Tensions escalate as North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean roads

      Explosions came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a meeting with his top military and security officials Seoul: South Korea said North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use on Tuesday, as the rivals are locked in rising animosities over North Korea’s claim that South Korea flew drones over its capital, Pyongyang. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a brief statement that North Korea blew up parts of the roads on Tuesday. It said South Korea’s military is bolstering its readiness and surveillance posture but gave no further details. The explosions came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a meeting with his top military and security officials. During the meeting, Kim…

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    • 14 October

      Three economists share Nobel Prize for explaining wealth disparities between nations

      Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson from MIT, along with James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago, were honored for their research on how institutions are formed and impact prosperity. Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to three US economists for providing new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations, trying to help solve the puzzle why some countries are rich and others poor. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago in the US were awarded the coveted honour for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson have demonstrated…

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