Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Peace and potato chips: Dreams big and small as 2024 approaches in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – It is bitterly cold, and people are trying to build adequate shelter to protect themselves in a new refugee camp set up in Deir el-Balah to cope with the overwhelming numbers of people fleeing in search of safety. In the camp, which is close to…

Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s far-right finance minister says Israelis who would replace Palestinians would ‘make the desert bloom’. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for the Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”. Smotrich, who has been excluded from Israeli…

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II to abdicate after 52 years on the throne | News

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II to abdicate after 52 years on the throne | News

The Danish queen announces January 14 abdication during New Year’s Eve address live on TV, making way for son, Crown Prince Frederik. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik, she said…

Assad forces target crowded market, kill two: Syria’s White Helmets | Syria’s War News

Assad forces target crowded market, kill two: Syria’s White Helmets | Syria’s War News

Meanwhile, Israel bombed Aleppo and Neirab, leaving Syrians trapped between two forces raining fire from the sky. Idlib, Syria — Two civilians, including a child, were killed, and 16 others, including four children, were injured in an artillery attack by Syrian regime forces targeting a popular market in the centre…

‘Outraged’: Brazilian Muslims face growing Islamophobia over Gaza war | Islamophobia News

‘Outraged’: Brazilian Muslims face growing Islamophobia over Gaza war | Islamophobia News

Sao Paulo, Brazil – It wasn’t unusual for patients to arrive in a foul temper at the hospital emergency room in São Paulo, Brazil, where physician Batull Sleiman worked. After all, every day brought new medical crises, new requests for urgent care. Sleiman had seen it all. But she was…

World starts welcoming the New Year with fireworks and prayers | News

World starts welcoming the New Year with fireworks and prayers | News

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Sydney and Auckland are the first major world cities to celebrate the arrival of 2024. Sydney and Auckland are the first major world cities to welcome the arrival of 2024. Over a million revellers celebrated the New Year on Sunday night amid stunning fireworks displays, illuminating the…

A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place? | Features

A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place? | Features

Oslo, Norway — Every May, literature lovers from all over the world walk 40 minutes through the hilly Nordmarka Forest outside of Norway’s capital Oslo and stop at a place where 1,000 Norwegian spruce, planted in 2014, are slowly growing. Here, the foresters make coffee on a fire and people…