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- english.almayadeen.net Pro-Palestinian journalist found dead on rooftop in Marseille
Authorities in Marseille have launched an investigation to determine the cause of Vlahovic's death.
French journalist and renowned Middle East expert Marine Vlahovic was found dead at her home in Marseille on Monday, November 27.
According to reports by La Provence, her body was discovered on the roof terrace of her residence by friends who had grown concerned after she failed to respond to calls or messages. She was 39 years old.
According to ARTE Radio, Marine Vlahovic had dedicated part of her short life to the Palestinian cause.
In Gaza Calling, she compiled video and voice messages from her colleagues and friends in Gaza, trapped under the bombs.
- US and Eurozone growth forecasts are moving in different directions
https://www.ft.com/content/e10a0a2a-e51c-4ac5-bba9-afea037c791d (https://archive.ph/KWte8)
- www.middleeasteye.net Tens of thousands attend pro-Palestine march in London
Organisers said at least 125,000 protesters called for Britain to end arms sales to Israel and an end to Israel's war on Gaza and Lebanon
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23173493
> By MEE staff > Published date: 30 November 2024 16:30 GMT > > [We need marches like this all over, especially in the U.S.] >
- www.counterpunch.org Contrary to What the Washington Post Says, China is Doing a Huge Amount to Fight Global Warming
The Washington Post had a bizarre article last week in which it questioned whether China was doing much to combat global warming. While the piece noted
- www.dw.com Nigeria seeks South Africa's help to join G20, BRICS – DW – 12/03/2024
At a joint summit, Nigeria officially asked for South African endorsement to join the important economic blocs. South Africa recently assumed the rotating G20 presidency.
- truthout.org These Billionaires Subsidize the Israeli Military Through a US Nonprofit
A US nonprofit funnels money from billionaires like Home Depot’s co-founder to effectively subsidize Israeli troops.
- www.middleeasteye.net Sudan: Video claims to show Ukrainian special forces hunting down Wagner mercenaries
Exclusive footage obtained by Kyiv Post appears to show interrogation of Russian mercenaries by Ukrainian forces
A Ukrainian outlet has released video footage purporting to show an interrogation of captured Wagner Group mercenaries by Ukrainian special forces in Sudan.
In the video, obtained by Kyiv Post, members of Timur, part of Ukraine's Military Intelligence Directorate (HUR), can be seen speaking to three bound and blindfolded men. Two of the men are African, while the third man can be heard speaking Russian.
The man, who admits to belonging to the Wagner Group, tells his interrogator that he and his men drove from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) to Sudan in order to "overthrow the local government". The video cannot be independently verified by Middle East Eye.
Last year, Lt Gen Kyrylo Budanov, chief of Ukranian military intelligence, vowed to “destroy Russian war criminals anywhere in the world, wherever they are”.
Fighting in Sudan has been ongoing since 15 April, with more than 12,000 people killed and seven million displaced, according to the United Nations.
- Updated free trade deal between Switzerland and China set for 2025 - SWI swissinfo.chwww.swissinfo.ch Updated free trade deal between Switzerland and China set for 2025
The enhanced free trade agreement between Switzerland and China is set to enter into force in 2025. This is the assumption of parliamentarian Thomas Aeschi, president of the EU-EFTA delegation.
Hezbollah said Monday it fired a warning strike in response to repeated “Israeli” violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect last Wednesday.
“The strike targeting the Roueisat Al-Alam military site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba,” the statement by the Lebanese group said.
It added that the “Israeli” violations of the ceasefire included “gunfire on civilians, airstrikes across various parts of Lebanon leading to civilian casualties and injuries, and continuous breaches of Lebanese airspace by Israeli aircraft reaching the capital, Beirut” which prompted this action.
“Despite multiple appeals to relevant authorities to halt these aggressions, no resolution was achieved.”
- mondoweiss.net UNRWA suspends aid delivery through main Gaza crossing after ‘looting’ goes unfettered under Israeli watch
UNRWA announced Monday that it is halting aid shipments through the Karam Abu Salem crossing into Gaza citing “hurdles from Israeli authorities” as a reason for a “breakdown in law and order.”
- www.declassifieduk.org F-35 components sent to Israel from UK airbase 14 times
Exclusive: Twice as many supplies for Israel’s “most lethal” fighter jets were sent from Britain than previously known.
- www.dropsitenews.com REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza
A prominent Israeli settler offered me $165 per day to demolish homes in Beit Lahia
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- www.palestinechronicle.com To Support Far-Right Candidate - Romania Accuses Israel of Meddling in Elections
Romania has accused an Israeli minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's government of interfering in its elections, reports Haaretz.
- www.bloomberg.com Vietnam Parliament Approves $67 Billion High-Speed Rail Project
Vietnam will start building a $67 billion high-speed rail network to connect its northern and southern provinces in 2027, as the government plans large infrastructure projects to support its economic growth ambitions.
- www.aljazeera.com ‘Appalling’: ICC president says threats, sanctions put court in jeopardy
US politicians are threatening to sanction court officials over the arrest warrant against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Unexplained Heat-Wave ‘Hotspots’ are Popping Up Across the Globenews.climate.columbia.edu Unexplained Heat-Wave ‘Hotspots’ Are Popping Up Across the Globe
Distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves so extreme, they cannot be explained by climate models.
Earth’s hottest recorded year was 2023, at 2.12 degrees F above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the previous record set in 2016. So far, the 10 hottest yearly average temperatures have occurred in the past decade. And, with the hottest summer and hottest single day, 2024 is on track to set yet another record.
All this may not be breaking news to everyone, but amid this upward march in average temperatures, a striking new phenomenon is emerging: distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves that are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain. A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches. In recent years, these heat waves have killed tens of thousands of people, withered crops and forests, and sparked devastating wildfires.
- scheerpost.com Black Friday Actions in 30+ Countries Aim to ‘Make Amazon Pay’
“When we announced our intention to protest today, our management attempted to stop us in multiple ways. We want to say to Amazon—you could not stop us today, you cannot stop us in the future…
Amazon workers and their allies are participating in a series of global actions aimed at holding the online retailer “accountable for labor abuses, environmental degradation, and threats to democracy,” according to the labor group UNI Global Union.
Dubbed “Make Amazon Pay,” the campaign is set to last from November 29 to December 2 and will include strikes and protests across six continents, according to the group—and is timed to disrupt Black Friday (or “Make Amazon Pay Day”) and Cyber Monday, two of the busiest online shopping days of the year.
- www.bbc.com Ukraine’s exhausted troops in Russia told to cling on and wait for Trump
Ukrainian soldiers paint a bleak picture of a battle they don't understand, and fear they will lose.
- www.dropsitenews.com A Giant of Journalism Gets Half its Budget From the U.S. Government
Drew Sullivan is unknown to the broad public, but the head of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is one of the most influential journalists in the world.
- www.bloomberg.com China’s EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff
From Tesla chargers in the ancient alleys that surround the Forbidden City in Beijing to lonely highway rest stops with charging posts in the western deserts, signs of the electrification of China’s transport fleet — and the demise of gasoline — are everywhere.
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- truthout.org China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
- www.aa.com.tr 2 Lebanese killed, soldier injured in Israeli drone strikes despite cease-fire
Lebanon’s parliament speaker asks committee supervising cease-fire to oblige Israel to stop its violations, withdraw from Lebanese territories - Anadolu Ajansı
Two people were killed and an army soldier was injured in three Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Monday despite a cease-fire deal between the two countries, local media said.
An Israeli drone fired two missiles into a motorcycle in Jdaidet Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon, leaving one person dead, the state news agency NNA reported.
The Lebanese State Security Directorate said that a security personnel was killed in a drone strike in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the directorate called the attack “a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement,” and “a dangerous escalation.”
An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.
The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.
- France's Barnier makes last-minute concession to far right in bid to avoid being toppled
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday made another major concession to Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, dropping planned cuts to medication reimbursements in a last-minute bid to get his 2025 budget bill over the line.
It was not immediately clear if that would be enough to save his fragile coalition from being toppled this week, with an RN spokesman telling Reuters there were other key demands ahead of a crunch parliamentary vote at 3:00 p.m. (1400 GMT).
It is at least the third time Barnier has given in to RN demands after he scrapped an electricity price hike worth some 3 billion euros last week and agreed to reduce free medical help to illegal migrants.
- www.theguardian.com New Zealand navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry finds
Interim report into the October disaster blames human error, saying HMNZS Manawanui’s ‘autopilot was not disengaged when it should have been’
- apnews.com Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine US dollar
His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump is oblivious to the fact that BRICS is now a bigger economy than the G7. The US is no longer an essential part of the global economy.
Increasing trade outside of the dollar is the only way countries can protect themselves from economic coercion by the US. In particular, China can obviously see that the US will go after them the same way they did with Russia. So, it would be suicide to agree to tie their global trade to the dollar.
Meanwhile, China also happens to be a bigger trade partner than the US for most of the world. So if it comes to choosing between the US and China, it's not really much of a choice. Especially given that China exports things people actually need, while the US barely has any manufacturing industry left accounting for less than 15% of the overall economy. The US is a big market, but it's not essential the way China is.
- apnews.com Guinea stadium stampede kills 56 people following clashes at soccer match, authorities say
At least 56 people have died and dozens more are injured as security forces tried to quell clashes during a soccer match in southern Guinea’s largest city.
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least 56 people, including children, have died after fans at a soccer game in Guinea allegedly clashed over a disputed call by the referee, authorities said Monday.
The stampede broke out on Sunday afternoon at the stadium in the city of Nzerekore during the final of a local tournament between the Labe and Nzerekore teams in honor of Guinea’s military leader, Mamadi Doumbouya.
“During the stampede, victims were recorded,” Guinea’s Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said on the X platform, without giving details. The regional authorities are working to restore calm in the area, he added.
Local media reports said security forces had tried to use tear gas to restore calm after the chaos that followed a disputed penalty call.
“This (the disputed penalty call) angered supporters who threw stones. This is how the security services used tear gas,” Media Guinea, a local news website, reported. It said several of those killed were children while some of the injured being treated at a regional hospital are in critical condition.
Videos that appeared to be from the scene showed fans in a section of the stadium shouting and protesting the refereeing before clashes broke out as people poured onto the field. People were running as they tried to escape from the stadium, many of them jumping the high fence.
- truthout.org Israel Bombs Another World Central Kitchen Vehicle in Gaza, Killing 5
The strike continues Israel’s pattern of blocking and targeting humanitarian aid.
- Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins [Kit Klarenberg]www.kitklarenberg.com Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins
All my investigations are free to access, thanks to the generosity of my readers.
>On November 27th, ultra-extremist militants Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a vast offensive in Syria. Within days, the Turkey-backed faction seized significant swaths of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, and advances elsewhere continue. While disinformation on the scale and success of HTS’ incursions abounds on social media, establishment news outlets remain the primary source of manipulation and deceit. No context to the current upsurge of violence is provided, although reference has been widely made to supposedly “peaceful” protests in 2011 that produced the decade-long Syrian civil war. > >According to this narrative, pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked by Syrian authorities for taking a righteous, public stand. Yet, the reality of what happened during that fateful time is amply documented in the Syrian government’s own internal documents. Namely, records of the Central Crisis Management Cell, created in March 2011 by Damascus to manage official responses to mass rioting that began weeks earlier. > >Mainstream outlets have previously reported on this trove, dubbing them The Assad Files. However, reporters and rights groups have universally misrepresented, distorted or simply falsified their contents, in order to wrongfully convict Syrian officials of horrific crimes. In some instances, quite literally. In reality, the documents show Assad and his ministers struggled valiantly to prevent the upheaval from escalating into violence on either side, protect demonstrators, and keep the situation under control. > >Meanwhile, sinister, unseen forces systematically murdered security service officials, pro-government figures, and protesters to foment catastrophe in a manner similar to many CIA regime change operations old and new. This shocking story has never before been told. Now, with dark insurrectionary clouds again pullulating over Damascus, it must be.
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On the alleged Syrian Douma chemical attack:
- Aaron Maté, Oct. 2020: Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’
- Klarenberg, Feb. 2022: Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show
- Maté, Sep. 2022: Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
- Maté, Mar. 2023: In Douma cover-up, OPCW’s new smoking gun backfires
- Klarenberg, Sep. 2023: UK intelligence spun 2013 Syria chemical attack, leaked docs show
- www.presstv.ir Israel blocking entry of blankets, clothes and shoes to Gaza as winter sets in: Rights group
An international NGO warns Israel
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has raised alarms about the worsening humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, warning that Israel's severe limitations on essential goods are intensifying the suffering of nearly two million displaced Palestinians amid cold weather.
The Geneva-based organization issued a statement on Wednesday, criticizing Israel for restricting the flow of essential goods such as clothing, blankets, and shoes, which the NGO said is aimed at imposing dire living conditions on the Palestinian population that will ultimately lead to their destruction as part of a broader genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.
- Sancti Spíritus, Cuba raises its voice for the Palestinian cause
from the Cuban online publication CUBADEBATE [contains many photos] Translated by Irais Maria García Portelles for CubaNews
- www.peoplesworld.org U.S. fossil fuel giants eye permanent control of Europe’s energy supply
While much of the world has long recognized that the U.S. has been fighting a proxy war against Russia by arming Ukraine to the teeth, proof of a new twist in that story emerged recently from no other a source than the savagely pro-business Wall Street Journal.
A former chief of staff to the Israeli army has accused Israel of going down the path of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Speaking to Israeli media, former Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Israel's campaign in Gaza will lead to the country's destruction if it continues.
“The path we are being dragged down is occupation, annexation and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip,” the prominent government critic told Democrat TV.
“Transfer, call it what you want, and Jewish settlements.
- www.theguardian.com Fifa ignores own report into Qatar World Cup over workers’ compensation
A long-awaited Fifa report into the legacy of the Qatar World Cup has finally been published, but only after its key recommendation was rejected by the organisation
A long-awaited Fifa report into the legacy of the Qatar World Cup has been published, but only after its key recommendation was rejected by the organisation.
Fifa’s subcommittee on human rights and social responsibility has found that the game’s world body “has a responsibility” to provide financial remedy to workers who suffered loss as a result of employment at the 2022 World Cup. Its report argues that Fifa should use its Qatar legacy fund for those workers. Two days before the report was published, however, Fifa announced that the $50m fund would be used on international development projects instead.
The subcommittee was commissioned in March last year to examine Fifa’s obligations arising from the tournament and its impact on those workers who experienced harm. The report was submitted last December but it is understood that internal resistance meant it only came out 11 months later, at midnight central European time on Friday.
