Israeli forces enter southern Gaza’s largest metropolis
Israeli troops have been combating within the coronary heart of Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s largest metropolis, a navy commander stated yesterday, describing some of the heaviest combat of the two-month war.
After days of warning civilians to go away the town, Israeli forces stepped up their assaults in a single day. Intense bombing was heard yesterday from inside Nasser Hospital, the town’s largest medical facility, the place many Palestinians who’ve sought shelter have been sleeping in hallways.
The push into the south comes after a seven-day cease-fire ended Friday, and weeks after Israeli forces invaded northern Gaza. Israel is below growing worldwide strain to not repeat the extent of civilian deaths and bodily destruction inflicted within the north, however stories from Gaza present no change within the depth of the navy operations or ensuing casualties.
The U.N. workplace for humanitarian assist stated that the interval from Sunday to Monday afternoon “saw some of the heaviest shelling in Gaza so far.” Because of the renewed combating, Gaza’s humanitarian disaster is deteriorating by the hour, the World Well being Group stated.
Zelensky canceled a session with U.S. senators earlier than assist vote
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine canceled plans yesterday to make a direct, last-ditch appeal to U.S. senators for tens of billions of {dollars} extra in emergency navy assist. Zelensky had deliberate to talk to senators in a labeled briefing by way of confidential video name, a day earlier than a vote that was anticipated to indicate rising opposition in Congress for persevering with to fund the warfare effort.
“Something happened at the last minute,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the bulk chief, stated yesterday, asserting the change in plans with out giving additional clarification.
Zelensky’s remarks have been a part of an effort by Democrats and the White Home to put on down Republican resistance to a invoice that would offer greater than $61 billion for Ukraine. Ukraine urgently wants extra ammunition and different weapons to attempt to flip the tide on the battlefield. The choice could be “catastrophic,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, stated yesterday.
Moody’s lowers China’s credit standing outlook
In one other blow to China’s financial system, the credit score rankings company Moody’s cut its view of the country’s finances to negative, saying it was involved concerning the potential value of native authorities bailouts.
Moody’s warned that the financial system was settling into slower progress as its huge property sector was starting to shrink. On the similar time, Moody’s reaffirmed its general A1 credit standing for the Chinese language authorities.
Xi asserts management: The Communist Occasion launched a doc that made clear that it anticipated banks, pension funds, insurers and different monetary organizations in China to comply with Marxist rules and pay obedience to Xi Jinping, China’s leader.
Evergrande’s crash: Blame for a property developer’s downfall has been positioned on Chinese language lending insurance policies, however questionable accounting and poor company oversight had already sent the company careening toward catastrophe.
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Mexico’s sophisticated relationship with corridos tumbados
The pop music phenomenon corridos tumbados combines singing and rapping with melodies from conventional Mexican music, together with lyrics impressed by narcocorridos — songs that inform tales of the drug commerce.
“It’s the most exciting moment in Mexican music in 20 or 30 years,” one music producer stated. Artists have tapped into “the relationship with violence, the relationship with the street, with politics, with what’s happening with fashion.”
Whereas artists can draw 1000’s of younger followers internationally, again residence, they often find themselves in contested territory, the place the drug warfare isn’t a dramatic fantasy however a bloody each day actuality. Concert events have been canceled over safety threats, and Tijuana not too long ago banned corridos tumbados in all public areas with fines as much as $70,000.
