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Israel, Palestinian envoys trade barbs at UN over Gaza
NEW YORK: Palestinian and Israeli envoys traded angry accusations Wednesday at the United Nations over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, as aid and human rights groups warned of 'mass starvation' in the war-torn territory. Israel is facing growing international pressure over chronic food shortages in Gaza, where more than two million people lack food and other essentials after 21 months of conflict. Even after Israel began easing a more than two-month aid blockade in late May, Gaza's population is still suffering extreme scarcities. 'Every day now we receive heart-wrenching messages from Gaza...'I am hungry,'' Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the Security Council. 'This is what our children are saying and every individual in Gaza is saying: 'I am hungry. There is no food for my family. We are dying. Help us,'' he said. 'What should we tell them? What should the Security Council tell them? That the whole world is against this starvation policy and yet it is worsening?' But Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon accused Hamas, which rules Gaza, of using the misery to 'feed it into their propaganda machine.' 'For Hamas, the suffering of its own people is their greatest weapon,' he said. Claiming Israel was making the Middle East safer, Danon accused the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of 'bias' against his country. OCHA is a 'propaganda machine' against Israel, he said, which purposely undercounts aid trucks heading into Gaza. 'We will not work with organizations that have chosen politics over principles,' Danon said, with Israel in future granting just one-month visas to the agency's international staff. More than 100 aid and human rights groups said Wednesday that 'mass starvation' was spreading in the Gaza Strip, and France warned of a growing 'risk of famine' caused by 'the blockade imposed by Israel.' 'I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation — and it's man-made,' World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. The lack of food and water was affecting the ability of journalists to carry out their work documenting the conflict. AFP's journalists in Gaza said this week that desperate hunger and lack of clean water is making them ill and exhausted. Some have even had to cut back on their coverage of the war, now in its 22nd month, with one journalist saying 'we have no energy left due to hunger.'
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Turkiye FM urges Russia, Ukraine to end ‘bloody war'
ISTANBUL: The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine opened on Wednesday evening in Istanbul, with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan urging both sides to end the 'bloody war' as soon as possible. 'Our aim is to end this bloody war, which has a very high cost, as soon as possible ... The ultimate goal is a ceasefire that will pave the way to peace,' Fidan said as he opened the negotiations. Turkiye, which has good relations with both of its Black Sea neighbors, has provided drones for Ukraine and shied away from Western-led sanctions on Moscow. Fidan thanked Russian and Ukrainian leaders Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky for demonstrating 'the will to hold these talks,' as well US President Donald Trump for his calls for an end to the war. He said the first and second round of talks, which also took place in Istanbul, achieved 'significant results.' 'We are pleased to see that the prisoner exchanges carried out to date have been appreciated by the international community in terms of their humanitarian outcomes,' he said. 'We also consider it an important development that the parties exchanged memoranda reflecting their perspectives on the ceasefire and peace during the second round of talks,' he added. 'Our hope for this third round of negotiations is that the parties will hold substantive and results-oriented consultations on the memorandums they have exchanged.' Fidan also said if a ceasefire is agreed, Turkiye has 'the necessary infrastructure in place for a monitoring mechanism.' 'The Istanbul talks provide us with an opportunity to show the world that diplomacy and dialogue are more effective than conflict and weapons in securing peace.'
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Man built and stashed homemade bombs throughout New York City, prosecutors say
NEW YORK: A New York man accused of plotting to set off homemade explosives he had stashed at sites across Manhattan has been indicted, federal prosecutors said. Michael Gann, 55, built at least seven improvised explosive devices last month with chemicals he bought online in May and took the bombs to Manhattan, according to an indictment handed up Tuesday by a grand jury. Gann, of Long Island, stored some on the devices on the rooftops of adjoining residential buildings and threw another onto the subway tracks on the Williamsburg Bridge, prosecutors said. No one was injured by any of the devices. Gann was arrested in early June near the buildings, and authorities said he he had one of the devices in his possession. Gann put 'countless lives at risk,' Jay Clayton, the interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. Gann is charged with attempted destruction of property by means of explosives, transportation of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of destructive devices. He could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted on all counts. A judge ordered Gann detained following a bail hearing. His lawyer, Martin Cohen, declined comment Wednesday.
