US, European powers back outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next NATO head | NATO News

US, European powers back outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next NATO head | NATO News

Support of top NATO powers makes Rutte favourite to succeed current Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in October. The United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany have all thrown their weight behind outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become NATO’s next secretary general, at a crucial time for the alliance…

Navalny’s mother says Russian authorities pressuring ‘secret’ burial | Human Rights News

Navalny’s mother says Russian authorities pressuring ‘secret’ burial | Human Rights News

Lyudmila Navalnaya says investigators are trying to set conditions on where, when and how the prominent Kremlin critic should be buried. The mother of Alexey Navalny has said Russian authorities are pressing her to bury the opposition leader’s body in “secret”. Speaking in a video message posted on YouTube on…

How does humanitarian assistance enter Gaza? | Israel War on Gaza News

How does humanitarian assistance enter Gaza? | Israel War on Gaza News

Israel denies accusations it is blocking aid deliveries as UN says people are at risk of starvation in the besieged strip. Before Israel’s war, most of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza were already dependent on humanitarian assistance. After four and a half months of a total siege, compounded…

Canadian white supremacist who killed Muslim family gets life sentence | Islamophobia News

Canadian white supremacist who killed Muslim family gets life sentence | Islamophobia News

The judge in the case said Nathaniel Veltman’s attack represented an act of ‘terrorism’. A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree…

Three people killed in shooting near Jerusalem | Israel War on Gaza News

Three people killed in shooting near Jerusalem | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli police say officers shoot two of the gunmen, and a third tries to escape but is found and arrested At least three people have been killed and eight wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire at motorists near an Israeli checkpoint near occupied East Jerusalem. The head of Israel’s ambulance…

Biden cancels .2bn in student loans for 153,000 people | US Election 2024 News

Biden cancels $1.2bn in student loans for 153,000 people | US Election 2024 News

Move will forgive debts of people who borrowed $12,000 or less and have been repaying the money for at least 10 years. US President Joe Biden has said that his administration was cancelling $1.2bn worth of student loans for almost 153,000 people. Biden, who is undertaking a three-day campaign swing…

Hospitals in South Korea cancel surgeries as doctors keep up protests | Health News

Hospitals in South Korea cancel surgeries as doctors keep up protests | Health News

Seoul’s biggest hospitals reduce surgeries by a third as trainee doctors continue strike over health reforms. Hospitals in South Korea have been forced to cancel or postpone surgeries and medical procedures, including treatments for cancer, according to media reports, as more trainee doctors walked off the job in protest over…

Israeli siege turns Gaza’s Nasser Hospital into ‘a place of death’ | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli siege turns Gaza’s Nasser Hospital into ‘a place of death’ | Israel War on Gaza News

Officials from the United Nations who conducted evacuation missions from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital have described “appalling” conditions at the enclave’s second-largest medical facility, saying an Israeli military operation there has transformed a “place of healing” into a “place of death”. The comments, in videos posted online on Wednesday, came amid…