Ship’s log: A day on board the Global Sumud Flotilla heading for Gaza
With the Global Sumud Flotilla en route to Gaza, Colombian journalist Mauricio Morales, who has been covering the flotilla’s journey for Al Jazeera, describes a typical day at sea for the two dozen or so volunteers on board his boat. 7am People begin to stir, grab their phones, and scroll for news. Most boats have…
Read MoreVW showcases four new electric cars ahead of IAA Mobility show
Before the start of the IAA Mobility international automotive industry show in Germany, the Volkswagen Group showcased on Sunday how it plans to make inroads into the electric entry-level segment next year. Two days before the official start of the exhibition in the southern city of Munich on Tuesday, the manufacturer presented its four new…
Read MoreNetanyahu says 100,000 Palestinians left Gaza, Hamas trying to stop them
PM: Ending the Gaza war quickly best way to combat diplomatic price paid by Israel • ‘Finish the war as quickly as possible, finish it with the victory we have defined’ About 100,000 Gazans have left the Strip as the IDF has ramped up its Gaza City incursion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at…
Read MoreAir Canada flight attendants emphatically reject wage offer presented to them. What happens now?
Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Reject Tentative Wage Deal In a decisive move, Air Canada flight attendants have overwhelmingly turned down the tentative wage agreement reached in August to end a brief strike. Approximately 99.1 percent of around 10,000 cabin crew voted against the proposal. What the Agreement Covered The proposal included a 12 percent pay increase…
Read MoreDespite lack of local protests, Gaza City evacuation threatens Hamas’s tight grip
Why are there no protests in Gaza against Hamas, who is threatening it on the ground, and what will happen without the human shield? Israel’s security establishment has assessed that the public in Gaza rarely demonstrates against Hamas due to deep fear and tightening control, but noted that the organization is not immune to internal…
Read MoreSettlers attack Bedouins, Ben-Gvir fuels tensions in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers have assaulted a Bedouin family near the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, while Israeli forces continue to carry out raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank amid the relentless pounding of the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were also injured by settler gunfire during an attack on the Khallet al-Eis area in…
Read MoreOpec+ set to raise oil output further from October: sources
[LONDON/MOSCOW] Opec+ is set to agree to further raise oil output on Sunday (Sep 7) while probably slowing the pace of increases from October compared with recent months because of weakening global demand, Opec+ sources said. Opec+ has reversed its strategy of output cuts from April and has already raised quotas by about 2.5 million…
Read MoreFinance, Defense ministries to establish c’mtee to expand resources for wounded IDF soldiers
“We manage to save severely wounded people who previously would not have survived.” Airborne evacuation of wounded from Gaza (photo credit: IDF SPOKESMAN’S UNIT) A new public committee, led by senior medical experts, will oversee an expanded national response for wounded IDF soldiers, with a focus on psychological care and integration. Defense Minister Israel Katz…
Read MoreCommentary: Finally some fairness in redistricting fight. In Utah, a judge stands up for voters
It’s been more than 60 years since Utah backed a Democrat for president. The state’s last Democratic U.S. senator left office nearly half a century ago and the last Utah Democrat to serve in the House lost his seat in 2020. But, improbably enough, Utah has suddenly emerged as a rare Democratic bright spot in…
Read MoreWhat’s the Deal with U.F.O.s?
I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of sci-fi writers that advises the government and N.G.O.s. He responded by throwing up his hands in exasperation. “If you start to do the woo-woo stuff with interdimensional and time travel,…
Read MoreTrump Has Ignited a Civil War Between the Federal Courts
The rebuke still prompted Judge William Young, who presided over the NIH case, to make a public apology to the justices “if they think that anything this court has done has been done in defiance of a precedential action of the Supreme Court of the United States,” during a court session earlier this week. Young,…
Read MoreNasdaq 100 gains as weak labour data fuels rate-cut bets
THE Nasdaq 100 rose on Thursday (Sep 4), closing 218.17 points, or 0.93 per cent higher, at 23,633.01, as investors digested weaker-than-expected labour market data ahead of Friday’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report. Private-sector job growth slowed to 54,000 in August, missing forecasts of 65,000, while weekly jobless claims hit their highest level since…
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