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The Guardian
a day ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
What price will Ukraine have to pay for peace?
Anton Levsiushkin grew up in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. It is a seaside city. 'Swimming, windsurfing, kitsesurfing', he tells Helen Pidd, 'anything a human being can do in water, we did it'. Sofiia Rozhdestvina is from a little further north, in Donetsk. It's a place, she explains, famed for its roses and its football club, Shakhtar Donetsk. Her family had their surname inscribed on a few of the stadium seats. Neither Anton nor Sofiia have been able to live in their homes – and the wider Donbas region – since Russia began to occupy parts of Ukraine in 2014. But both had long hoped some day to return, even once Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. This week, however, the prospect looks further away than ever. As diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour explains, a pair of historic summits organised by US President Donald Trump – first with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and then with Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flanked by his European allies – has brought the possibility of an end to the fighting in Ukraine closer. But there is a heavy price for Ukraine to pay for peace. Putin wants the whole of the Donbas region under his control – including the millions of people who live there – and Trump might be willing to support him. So is the three-year war in Ukraine close to an end? And what will it mean to Ukrainians like Anton and Sofiia if it is?
The Standard
07-08-2025
- Politics
- The Standard
Israeli security cabinet to hold talks over future Gaza war plans
Graphic content / Palestinian children carry water jugs past tents, housing displaced people, in the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 7, 2025. Israel's military will have to execute any government decisions on Gaza, the defence minister said on August 6 after reported disagreements over the prospect of a full occupation of the Palestinian territory. (Photo by AFP)
Al Jazeera
21-07-2025
- Health
- Al Jazeera
At least 49 killed in Gaza attacks as Israel sends tanks into Deir el-Balah
At least 49 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources say, as the Israeli military has sent tanks into areas of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since Israel began its assault on the besieged territory in October 2023. Israel on Monday launched the ground offensive on southern and eastern areas of the city that is packed with displaced Palestinians, a day after its military issued a forced displacement order for residents in the areas, forcing thousands of people to flee west towards the Mediterranean coast and south to Khan Younis. Tank shelling in the area hit houses and mosques, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding several, the Reuters news agency reported, quoting local medics. Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said gunfire was audible as Israeli tanks rolled into the area on Monday morning. 'We can see that the entire city is under Israeli attack,' he said. 'We did not manage to sleep last night.' 'There has been an ongoing Israeli bombardment. Israeli jets, tanks and naval gunboats continue to strike multiple residential areas. Three more squares were destroyed in the city, and then residential houses were flattened.' He said many Deir el-Balah residents fled using donkey carts and other modes of transport. Israel intensifies attacks In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, an Israeli air strike killed at least five people, including a husband and wife and their two children, in a tent, medics said. Among those reported killed since dawn on Monday were four aid seekers waiting for food near a distribution centre operated by the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Five other Palestinians were killed in a separate Israeli bombardment in Jabalia al-Balad in the north. Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that its teams had recovered the body of one person and evacuated three wounded after an Israeli artillery strike on the nearby Jabalia al-Nazla area. Drone strikes were reported in Gaza City, resulting in casualties, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic. The previous day, at least 134 people were killed and 1,155 injured by Israeli forces, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. At least 59,029 people in Gaza have been killed since the war began. On Sunday, Gaza health authorities reported at least 19 people had starved to death in one day, highlighting the desperate situation under the Israeli aid blockade. In an interview with Al Jazeera, the World Food Programme's Palestine representative, Antoine Renard, said the United Nations agency has warned for 'weeks' that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation. 'You have a level of despair that people are ready to risk their lives just to reach any of the assistance actually coming into Gaza,' Renard said from occupied East Jerusalem. '[There's a] soaring number of people facing malnutrition, and we can really see that the situation is really getting to levels that we've never seen ever before.' UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said it is receiving 'desperate messages of starvation' from inside Gaza, including from its staff, as humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate. 'The suffering in Gaza is manmade and must be stopped. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale,' UNRWA said in a statement posted on X. Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network, told Al Jazeera on Monday that 900,000 children are experiencing varying degrees of malnutrition in Gaza. Twenty-five countries, including the United Kingdom, France and other European nations, issued a joint statement saying the war in Gaza 'must end now' and Israel must comply with international law. The foreign ministers of the 25 countries, including Australia, Canada and Japan, said 'the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths', and they condemned 'the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food'. 'The Israeli government's aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity,' the statement said. 'The Israeli government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,' it said.
The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Greece student protests and a Kenyan funeral: photos of the day
People carry the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on a school where displaced people were sheltering to the morgue of al-Shifa hospital Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images A boy watches over water containers. People queue in front of water tankers every day to get clean water Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images People attend to a person who collapsed in a temporary migrant shelter at a municipal hall on Crete Photograph: Nicolas Economou/Reuters A Bosnian Muslim woman mourns amid gravestones of victims killed during the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Photograph: Amel Emrić/Reuters A protester stands in front of a military vehicle approaching an agricultural facility where federal agents and immigration officers carried out an operation Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters Police clash with students outside a hotel where the minister of education is scheduled to speak at a meeting of Greek university rectors. Demonstrators are protesting against a new education bill that allows students to be expelled from university if they exceed the maximum duration of their studies Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA A memorial for flood victims in Texas Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP People hold photos of children who remain in the US after being separated from their parents. Hundreds protested to demand the return to Venezuela of at least 30 children who were separated from their parents during the deportation process from the US Photograph: Pedro Mattey/AFP/Getty Images Susan Njeri, the mother of Boniface Mwangi Kariuki, breaks down at Kenyatta University Funeral Home. Kariuki was shot by police on 17 June during protests over the death of a Kenyan blogger in police custody. He died two weeks later Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala appears in Alexandra magistrates court. The businessman faces charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and money laundering after he allegedly orchestrated a hit on his ex-girlfriend, the actor Tebogo Thobejane, in 2023 Photograph: Per-The Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates (left) and the Belgian Remco Evenepoel of Soudal Quick-Step shake hands prior to stage seven of the Tour de France, from Saint Malo to Mur-de-Bretagne Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA Lionel Richie performing during the 59th Montreux jazz festival Photograph: Valentin Flauraud/AP A model presents a creation from the collection Skin, Seed, Decay during the designer Gabrielle Fenech's catwalk show at Malta fashion week Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters Kanye West at Shanghai Pudong international airport after arriving for a concert Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Competitors wait to enter the main arena on the final day of the 166th Great Yorkshire show. The four-day event celebrates agriculture, food, farming and the countryside Photograph:
Shafaq News
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
With UN support: +300 displaced Iraqi families return to Sinjar
Shafaq News/ Over 300 displaced Iraqi families from Sinjar have left the displacement camps and returned to their homes in Nineveh Province, the Duhok Department of Migration, Displacement, and Crisis Response reported on Tuesday. Speaking to Shafaq News Agency, department director Diyan Jaafar confirmed that 370 families left the Duhok camps over the past two days as part of the final group supported by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Over the past three years, nearly 2,800 families have returned to their towns and villages across Sinjar—including key locations such as Karzark, Tal Uzair, and Dugure—under the IOM-supported voluntary return program. However, Jaafar noted, the broader return process has been temporarily suspended following US President Donald Trump's recent decision to freeze humanitarian and financial assistance to the United Nations for three months. 'Local authorities are now awaiting the end of this pause to resume further return efforts,' he added. On August 3, 2014, ISIS attacked Sinjar, killing, injuring, and displacing thousands of Yazidis before Peshmerga forces reclaimed the area in 2015. Nearly 200,000 Yazidis remain in displacement camps in Duhok, with thousands still missing nearly a decade later.
