Monday, October 16th, 2023
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports a 99% likelihood of 2023 becoming the warmest year on record. (AFP via The Japan Times)
NASA successfully launches its Psyche space probe from Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft will explore the M-type asteroid 16 Psyche, a suspected core of a protoplanet in the asteroid belt. (Reuters)
The Philippine military demands China stop “dangerous and offensive” actions in the South China Sea after a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship performed aggressive maneuvers near the disputed Thitu Island last week. (Reuters)
The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia allows President Joko Widodo‘s son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who is the Mayor of Surakarta to be able to run as Vice President candidate in the next presidential election. (The Jakarta Post)
International Olympic Committee approves Cricket, Flag football, Lacrosse, Squash and Baseball/softball to be included in 2028 Summer Olympics. cricket will return for the first time since 1900, lacrosse since 1908 and baseball since 2020 while squash and flag football will be their first debut. (Sky Sports)
Sunday, October 15th, 2023
At least 2,268 Palestinians have been killed and 8,700 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. At least 1,300 Israelis have been killed and at least 3,400 others are injured. (Al Jazeera)
Human Rights Watch accuses the Israeli Defense Forces of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operation in the Gaza area and Lebanon, saying that this puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries. (Reuters)
Human Rights Watch confirms that Israel has used white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon. (France 24)
Al-Dura pediatric hospital is evacuated after being hit with white phosphorus munitions from Israeli airstrikes. (Egypt Today)
Amnesty International says that they have verified images of Israeli forces near Sderot using white phosphorus-based rounds. (CBS News)
The Israel Defense Forces kill senior Hamas commander Billal Al Kedra in an airstrike in Khan Yunis. (NDTV)
The heads of the Arab League and the African Union release a joint statement stating that Israel’s planned ground invasion of Gaza “could lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions”. (AFP via Arab News)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says that Israel’s reaction to Hamas’s attack “went beyond self-defence and amounted to collective punishment“. (Reuters)
An estimated one million Gazans have been displaced, according to the United Nations Palestinian agency, as aid groups describe the situation in the besieged enclave as “catastrophic”. (AFP via The Economic Times)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that about 70 percent of people in Gaza do not have access to health services, although the World Health Organization has been able to deliver medical supplies for 2,000 patients. The ministry also says that at least 50 families in the Gaza Strip have had all of their family members killed by Israeli shelling and air strikes. (Reuters)
A man kills a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy and seriously injures his mother in Plainfield Township, Illinois, United States. The perpetrator, who was the victims’ landlord, states he was motivated by the ongoing Israel–Gaza war. (Reuters)
United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL says its headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon, has been hit by a rocket. (Reuters)
One civilian is killed and three others are injured in a cross-border attack by Hezbollah in Shtula, Israel. Israel retaliates with airstrikes on Hezbollah positions. (Reuters)
Israel conducts military operations in Ramallah in the West Bank, arresting more than 50 people. (Al Jazeera)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces the provision of 30 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza. (Reuters)
Lawyers and human rights organisations in Israel receive dozens of complaints from Palestinian workers and students who have been suspended from schools, universities and workplaces over social media posts or conversations with colleagues. (Al Jazeera)
In the United Kingdom, rallies take place in Manchester in northern England, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and London, amid police warnings that support for Hamas could result in arrest. (Al Jazeera)
Protesters in Amsterdam call on the EU to take a stand against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, condemning European leaders for their silence on the violence Israel is committing in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
One person is killed and other is wounded in a stabbing attack in Hartlepool, United Kingdom. The attack is being investigated by Counter Terrorism Policing. A suspect has been detained. (BBC News)
Russian attacks across Ukraine over a 24-hour period kill at least six people, including two civilians in Kherson, which was bombarded with over 100 shells by Russian forces. In a separate incident, a 14-year-old boy is killed by a land mine in Mykolaiv Oblast. (AP)
Another magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Herat Province, Afghanistan, killing four people and injuring more than 150 others, several days after a series of powerful earthquakes killed over 1,000 people in the province. (ITV)
The Taliban government confirms that it will attend the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China, next week, as the countries form closer economic ties, including the potential construction of a large copper mine in Logar Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Thousands of people attend rallies in support of Palestine in several Australian cities. (ABC News Australia)
Thousands of people attend rallies in support of Palestine in Istanbul, Turkey. (France 24)
Ecuadorians vote in the second round of the presidential election between Luisa González and Daniel Noboa. (The Guardian)
The National Electoral Council declares Noboa as president-elect with González conceding defeat. Noboa is Ecuador’s youngest president-elect. (AFP via France 24)
Poles elect members of the Senate and the Sejm. Votes are also cast in a referendum on migration, the removal of the border wall between Belarus and Poland, and the retirement age. (AFP via Barron’s) (The Guardian)
Exit polls suggest that Poland’s opposition parties, led by the Civic Coalition under former prime minister Donald Tusk, are poised to secure a parliamentary majority, potentially ending the eight-year governance of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. The exit poll voter turnout reaches a record of 73%. (AFP via Manila Bulletin) (CNN)
Saturday, October 14th, 2023
The Israel Defense Forces announce that airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed Murad Abu Murad, the head of Hamas’s air operations and Ali Qadi, a top Hamas commander, both of whom were involved in the 7 October invasion of Israel. (The Washington Post) (The Jerusalem Post)
France raises its Vigipirate to the highest level and announces the deployment of 7,000 soldiers through Opération Sentinelle following a fatal stabbing incident at a school in Arras, Hauts-de-France, which President Emmanuel Macron describes as “Islamist terror“. (AFP via The Straits Times)
All living generations of 45 families have been wiped from the Gaza civil registry, the health ministry says. (Al Mayadeen)
Palestine’s United Nations envoy says that Palestinians are in danger of mass ethnic cleansing. (Reuters)
At least 15 hospitals are damaged by Israeli shelling and airstrikes, with two currently inoperable. 28 medical staff are killed and 23 ambulances are damaged or destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. (CBS News)
The Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza is hit by Israeli strikes and sustained damage, says the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem that runs it. (Anglican Communion)
Shia Islamist militant group Hezbollah fires on five Israeli outposts in the Shebaa Farms with guided missiles and mortar shells. A Hezbollah member is killed during a subsequent gunbattle with Israeli troops. (Reuters)
Two civilians are killed during shelling by Israeli soldiers in Shebaa, Lebanon. (AFP via Barron’s)
Seventy people have been killed in attacks on convoys evacuating Gaza City, according to Hamas. (NBC News)
At least 724 children are killed by Israeli shelling and airstrikes in Gaza, Defence for Children International says. (CNN)
At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
The United Nations health organization has condemned Israel’s order to evacuate 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 inpatients in northern Gaza, saying it “could be tantamount to a death sentence” (NBC News)
Medical Aid for Palestinians says ambulances in Gaza are being targeted by Israeli air raids. (Al Jazeera)
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that more than 50,000 pregnant women and newborn babies in Gaza do not have access to essential medical care. (AFP via France 24)
The UN Palestine agency says that its shelters in Gaza are no longer safe and also warns that there is a shortage of water in Gaza. (The Business Standard)
More then 5,000 demonstrators march in support of Palestine to the White House in Washington, DC,. (AFP via The Business Standard)
Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan formally approves the country joining the International Criminal Court. (The Independent)
A majority of voters in Australia vote to reject the establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. (Reuters)
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins concedes defeat to the New Zealand National Party which has won the most seats, although not a majority. Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon is expected to form a coalition government with ACT New Zealand. (Reuters)
UNITA, Angola’s main opposition party, exits a special parliamentary session in objection to the proposed public voting method for President João Lourenço‘s impeachment motion, which is subsequently dismissed. (AFP via The Manila Times)
Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 An annular solar eclipse is visible in the Western Hemisphere. (AP)
Friday, October 13th, 2023
Cities across the United States tighten their security after former Hamas leader Khaled Mashal called for a Global Day of Jihad against Zionism. (The Guardian)
The Israeli Air Force begins dropping evacuation leaflets over Gaza City warning residents to leave the city immediately. (BBC News)
Hamas tells Palestinians to remain in their houses and not to relocate to Southern Gaza, despite Israeli orders to do so. (Times of Israel)
At a press conference, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says that the main goal of the upcoming military operation will be to “topple Hamas rule in Gaza”. (Axios)
The Israeli Defense Forces notifies the United Nations that the 1.1 million Palestinians living north of Wadi Gaza in the Gaza Strip have been ordered to relocate to Southern Gaza within 24 hours ahead of an expected ground invasion. (Reuters)
Israeli troops conduct “localized raids” into Gaza in an attempt to locate Hamas-held hostages. (Reuters)
Hamas says that 13 hostages, including foreigners, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. (WION)
An Israeli missile strike hits a group of journalists on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, injuring six of them, and killing a Reuters videographer, Issam Abdallah. (Reuters)
A teacher is killed and another teacher and a security guard are seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a high school in Arras, Hauts-de-France, France. The Chechen attacker is arrested by police. (BBC News)
The United Kingdom begins evacuating British citizens from Israel. (Euronews)
Israeli soldiers open fire against protestors in the occupied West Bank, killing eleven people and injuring 124 others. (Al Jazeera)
Anti-Israel protests occur in many cities across the Middle East. (AP)
Russian police detain one of the three lawyers of Alexei Navalny and raid the houses of the other two, accusing them of belonging to an extremist organization. (Reuters)
During a CIS Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will offer to mediate a ceasefire. (The Moscow Times)
Heavy fighting occurs between Ukrainian and Russian forces for control of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine says that Russia has launched airstrikes and artillery attacks on the city overnight but that its troops were “holding their ground”. (Reuters)
A diplomat at the Embassy of Israel in Beijing, China, is stabbed by an unknown foreign attacker. The diplomat was taken to a hospital for treatment and is in stable condition. The incident is being treated as a terrorist attack. (i24 News)
Seven people are killed and 15 are injured after a suicide bombing at a mosque in Puli Khumri, Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. (RFE/RL)
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority approves Microsoft’s takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. (BBC News)
Seven people are killed and 16 others are injured when a vehicle carrying illegal immigrants from the Middle East crashes in Mühldorf, Bavaria, Germany. (AP)
A military helicopter crashes in Canelas Municipality, Durango, Mexico, killing three people. (AP)
Jim Jordan wins the Republican nomination for House Speaker after Steve Scalise withdrew his bid. (Axios)
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