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Paris (AFP) – “Only a ceasefire can stop the haemorrhage and save lives” in Gaza, says the head of emergency operations at Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Michel-Olivier Lacharite. Lacharite speaks as the war between Israel and Hamas has entered its 32nd day. It was triggered on 7 October when a Hamas attack on southern Israel killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials. Since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says retaliatory Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least 10,000 people, mostly women and children.

Tripoli (AFP) – Egyptian migrants are being boarded on buses to be driven back to the Egyptian border as Libya’s Tripoli-based Directorate of Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM) has started deporting about 600 undocumented Egyptian migrants. The North African country has become a hub for tens of thousands of migrants seeking to reach Europe by sea every year. According to the IOM, more than 700,000 migrants were present on Libyan territory between May and June 2023.

Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – “I don’t want fake legs,” Layan al-Baz cries in agony as the effect of her painkillers fades. The 13-year-old’s legs were amputated after she suffered injuries from an Israeli strike on the city of Khan Yunis in the besieged Gaza Strip. Layan is one of countless Palestinian children falling victim to the war between Israel and Hamas. Since Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israeli officials say more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel. In Gaza, at least 10,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by retaliatory Israeli strikes, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Tacloban (Philippines) (AFP) – A decade since Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central Philippines and left more than seven thousand people dead or missing, survivors are preparing to commemorate the disaster. Ahead of the 10th anniversary of Haiyan, AFP caught up with three people whose lives were irrevocably changed by the tragedy.

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – “I think the bigger problem which also many Council members have recognized, is that without a cessation of hostilities, or some kind of humanitarian truce that is immediately implemented,” says Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE’s ambassador to the UN at a UN Security Council meeting. The council has yet to pass any text on the conflict.

Lausanne (AFP) – A man severely disabled by Parkinson’s disease is able to walk almost normally again thanks to electrodes implanted in his spinal cord. The medical first was achieved by Swiss researchers who had previously pioneered similar breakthroughs to help paraplegic people walk again.

Cambridge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Undelivered letters written to French sailors during an 18th century war between Britain and France have finally been opened and studied — after more than 250 years gathering dust.

New Delhi (AFP) – People walk in front of the India Gate as New Delhi restricts the use of private vehicles for a week in a bid to offer residents some respite from the toxic smog choking the megacity. IMAGES

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the bombarded Gaza Strip is becoming a “graveyard for children,” as he urges an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Kyiv region (Ukraine) (AFP) – The Aurora Borealis, a rare atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as the Northern Lights, sent vivid flares of purple, green and red across the night sky above Ukraine’s Kyiv region the evening of 5 November. The multicoloured natural illuminations, caused by interactions between solar winds and the Earth’s magnetic field, were also spotted in the Kharkiv, Chernigiv, Odesa, Kirovograd, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.