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Netanyahu warns Yemen airstrikes will continue after WHO chief caught up in airport attack – Middle East crisis live

27/12/2024 09:07 The Guardian

Head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was at Yemen’s international airport when it was hitHouthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the overnight firing of a missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport and say they launched drones at Israel’s commercial capital, as well as a ship in the Arabian Sea, according to reports. Here is a report from The Times of Israel, which we have not yet been able to independently verify:The Houthis claim that “the missile succeeded in reaching its target despite the enemy’s censorship, and the operation resulted in casualties and the cessation of navigation at the airport.”The IDF said the missile was successfully downed by air defenses, and there were no reports of impacts at the airport. Flight arrivals were reportedly halted for 30 minutes. Continue reading...

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Almost one in five children live in conflict zones, says Unicef

UN humanitarian body warns that dramatic increase in harm to children should not become the ‘new normal’Nearly one in five of the world’s children live in areas affected by conflicts, with more than 473 million children suffering from the worst levels of violence since the second world war, ac...

28/12/2024 00:01 The Guardian
Mild weekend weather brings relief to firefighters after home lost in Grampians bushfire

Victorian temperatures to rise from Monday, with fire warnings also in place in NSW and Western AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMilder conditions across the weekend will bring temporary relief to firefighters who continue to battle an out-of-control bushfire in Vi...

27/12/2024 23:39 The Guardian
Injured North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has died, says South Korea

First of Kim Jong-un’s soldiers to be taken was detained in Kursk region of Russia, according to Ukrainian reports‘I thought it was fake news’: secrecy around North Koreans fighting in KurskSouth Korea’s intelligence agency has reported that a North Korean soldier believed to have been the f...

27/12/2024 20:32 The Guardian
Italian journalist arrested and held in solitary confinement in Iran

Il Foglio war correspondent Cecilia Sala taken in by police while reporting in Tehran, says Italy’s foreign ministryAn Italian journalist has been arrested while reporting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and held in solitary confinement for a week, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.Cecilia S...

27/12/2024 17:37 The Guardian
Biden administration pledges additional military aid to Ukraine amid Russia war

Security assistance package in works as North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk after Putin-Kim agreementThe Biden administration is pledging to approve fresh military aid to Ukraine in the coming days, including crucial air defense systems, as North Korean forces face mounting casualties in their...

27/12/2024 17:31 The Guardian
Hogmanay plans at risk as severe weather warning issued for Scotland

Preparations for new year’s street parties under way as Met Office warns of ‘significant disruption’ due to heavy rain on 30 and 31 DecemberA severe weather warning is threatening to put a dampener on Hogmanay plans across Scotland as the nation braces for 48 hours of heavy rain.The Met Office...

27/12/2024 17:12 The Guardian
Azerbaijan Airlines says there was ‘external interference’ before crash

Carrier suspends flights to five Russian airports after early findings of investigation into crash on Christmas Day The aircraft that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38 people, experienced “external physical and technical interference”, according to preliminary results of an inve...

27/12/2024 16:37 The Guardian
‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years

Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10-20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fastThe British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warnin...

27/12/2024 15:50 The Guardian
Sudan: first aid convoy reaches besieged Khartoum area since start of civil war

Deliveries of vital food and medical supplies will help 200,000 families, say aid groups and local volunteersAn aid convoy has reached a besieged area of Khartoum for the first time since Sudan’s civil war broke out in April 2023, bringing food and medicines in a country where half of the people a...

27/12/2024 15:46 The Guardian
Why speech could be a target for the anti-abortion movement in 2025

The anti-abortion movement is looking at ways to control information about how and where to obtain abortionsThe next front in the US abortion wars may be what people are allowed to say about it.More than two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’...

27/12/2024 13:00 The Guardian
Weather tracker: Storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps

Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in IndiaA snowstorm developed across the Alps on Saturday 21 December due to a low-pressure system situated over the Adriatic Sea. This depression allowed relatively warm and moist air to push into th...

27/12/2024 11:05 The Guardian
Estonia begins naval patrols to protect energy cable after suspected sabotage

Finland investigating tanker that sailed from Russian port over disconnection of Estlink 2 cable on Christmas DayEstonia has begun naval patrols to protect a cable supplying electricity from Finland after the suspected sabotage of another one on Christmas Day, the Estonian defence minister, Hanno Pe...

27/12/2024 10:46 The Guardian
Plantwatch: the smelly deception of titan arum’s phallic spadix

Plant native to Sumatra boasts huge fly-attracting flower that can be sustained for only a few daysIt looks like a giant erect penis, stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. This is the inflorescence of the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, a plant with a phal...

27/12/2024 06:00 The Guardian
‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE

About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongueUkraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, amid reports they are instead being pressed to s...

27/12/2024 05:00 The Guardian
California residents urged to avoid ocean as high surf pounds coastline

At least one dead and three missing amid storm that has split wharf, wrecked boat and piled up debrisCalifornia residents are being warned to stay off wharves, piers and other waterside structures as 20-30ft waves are expected to batter the northern Pacific coast for the rest of the week.The Nationa...

26/12/2024 19:10 The Guardian
Finnish coastguard boards tanker suspected of causing power and internet cable outages

Cook Islands-registered Eagle S was carrying Russian oil in the Baltic SeaFinnish authorities have seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four in...

26/12/2024 17:31 The Guardian
Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck Azerbaijan Airlines plane, says US

Ukraine official also says crash caused by Russian air defence fire, while Russia plays down involvementRussia and Kazakhstan have sought to play down speculation about the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash, as a US official said there were early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may hav...

26/12/2024 17:23 The Guardian
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine claims it struck military facility in Russia – as it happened

Airforce hits military industrial facility in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in Russia’s Rostov region, says Ukrainian militaryRussia and Kazakhstan have sought to temper speculation about the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash, with the Kremlin urging people to wait for the results of the investi...

26/12/2024 15:57 The Guardian
Middle East crisis live: 14 security personnel killed in Syria after clash over former prison officer

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human RightsHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and developments in the Middle East more widely.Four...

26/12/2024 09:01 The Guardian
Victoria fires: BoM warns of ‘erratic and dangerous’ conditions as Grampians bushfire sees emergency evacuations

Residents in some areas warned it is too late to leave as authorities brace for dangerous winds overnightVictoria bushfires: blazes threaten Grampians, Bullengarook, the Gurdies and Creswick – in picturesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorians have been on high alert...

26/12/2024 08:44 The Guardian
Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in western Europe, poll finds

YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countriesReadiness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has fallen sharply across western Europe at a critical time for the country, a survey suggests, as Donald Trump’s forthcoming return to the White...

26/12/2024 08:14 The Guardian
‘Considerable environmental damage’ from Victoria blaze – as it happened

This blog is now closedVictorian bushfires: BoM warns of ‘erratic and dangerous’ conditions as Grampians fire sees emergency evacuationsAuthorities in Victoria have issued an emergency warning for a bushfire at Mafeking in the state’s west.Locals have been told to take shelter immediately. Con...

26/12/2024 07:21 The Guardian
Resist ‘predatory’ Boxing Day gambling offers, say NHS bosses amid worsening crisis

Barrage of gambling adverts likely to exacerbate addiction, as NHS in England doubles number of clinics to meet demandThe “barrage” of betting advertisements around Boxing Day sporting fixtures will exacerbate Britain’s growing gambling problem, NHS bosses are warning.Promotional techniques by...

26/12/2024 07:00 The Guardian
Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way

Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpathsA deadline for registering historic rights of way is to be scrapped after a warning that the looming cutoff date could result in the loss of thousands of miles of footpaths.The last government set a...

26/12/2024 00:01 The Guardian
Russia criticises Canberra’s ‘hostile stance’ as it looks into reports Australian fighter captured in Ukraine

Family and friends hold grave fears for man identified as Oscar Jenkins who was reportedly captured by Russian soldiers in Donbas regionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMoscow is looking into reports that the Russian army may have captured an Australian citizen fighting wit...

25/12/2024 21:38 The Guardian
Baby girl freezes to death in Gaza while Israel and Hamas argue over ceasefire

Three-week-old Sila is the third baby to die from the cold in Gaza’s tent camps in recent days, according to doctorsA baby girl has frozen to death in Gaza and at least 10 people have been killed by airstrikes, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could...

25/12/2024 21:36 The Guardian
Russian cargo ship’s owner says sinking in Mediterranean was ‘act of terrorism’

Three explosions caused Ursa Major to sink off Spanish coast, says company linked to Russian defence ministryA Russian cargo ship that sank on Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea was the target of an “act of terrorism”, according to the vessel’s owner.The Ursa Major sank while it was sailing thro...

25/12/2024 15:58 The Guardian
Russia launches major Christmas Day attack on Ukraine’s energy system

Zelenskyy describes cruise and ballistic missile strikes, which caused blackouts in several regions, as ‘inhuman’Russia-Ukraine war live – follow the latest updatesChristmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles to target energy infrastruc...

25/12/2024 12:39 The Guardian
Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates

Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin America – the region with the world’s fastest-growing prison population – are exacerbating tuberculosis in a region that is buc...

25/12/2024 12:00 The Guardian
Guardian and Observer charity appeal donations pass £1m

Charities pay tribute to readers’ generosity that is ‘helping to make our world a better place’Donate to our charity appeal hereGenerous readers have donated more than £1m in under three weeks to the Guardian and Observer’s 2024 appeal in support of victims of global conflict and war.This y...

25/12/2024 08:00 The Guardian
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