Tokyo (AFP) – G7 foreign ministers posed for a family photo during their meetings in Tokyo. They sought Wednesday to hammer out a common line on the Israel-Hamas war and signal to Russia that there would be no let-up in their support for Ukraine. IMAGES
Geneva (AFP) – The world’s porrest countries “are in a desperate situation”, United Nations official Rebeca Grynspan says in Geneva. A report from the United Nations Conference on Trade, Investment and Development (UNCTAD) says multiple crises, from the Covid pandemic to soaring inflation, have hit the so-called least developed countries, or LDCs, particularly hard.
Paris (AFP) – A Napoleon I bicorne hat and some twenty other objects from the same collection are being exhibited in Paris ahead of their sale by the Osenat auction house on 19 November. “The hat alone represents Napoleon’s image throughout the world,” says auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat. Valued at between 600,000 and 800,000 euros, it will have a starting price of 500,000 euros, according to the president of Osenat Auctions.
Geneva (AFP) – An average of 160 children are killed each day in the besieged Gaza Strip as a result of the Israel-Hamas war. “The level of death and suffering is hard to fathom,” says WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier. The war between Israel and Hamas has entered its 32nd day. Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel has killed at least 1,400 people according to Israeli officials. The Hamas-run health ministry says retaliatory Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have since killed at least 10,000 people.
London (AFP) – Ange Postecoglou admits he does not like VAR as the Tottenham boss blasts the replay system’s influence on his side’s 4-1 defeat against Chelsea. Tottenham had Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie sent off and were denied two goals by VAR in a remarkable Premier League clash.
Seoul (AFP) – South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is on a mission no other foreigner has ever undertaken in ethnically homogenous South Korea: trying to shake up the country’s highly confrontational politics.
Tel Aviv (AFP) – “We have a long war ahead of us,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant tells members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. “It’s not a day and it’s not a week and it’s not two weeks either. It will take time.”
Darmstadt (Germany) (AFP) – A nebula resembling a horse’s head, never-before-seen distant galaxies and “circumstantial evidence” of elusive dark matter: the European Space Agency has released the first images from its Euclid space telescope, illustrating its wide-lens view of the universe. Euclid blasted off in July on the world’s first-ever mission aiming to investigate the enduring cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinians flee to the south of the Gaza Strip along the Salah Al-Din road as the war between Israel and Hamas continues to rage. The majority of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million residents have been displaced by the fighting, with around 1.5 million fleeing within the territory according to the United Nations.
Tokyo (AFP) – People hold banners and chant slogans during a march to protest over a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo set to seek a common line on Gaza, as calls mount for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. “Japan has a connection to both Israel and Palestine, and is in a better position than other countries to say ceasefire or stop the massacres, yet it does not say so properly and has effectively supported Israel”, says protester Koji Sugihara.
