Israel releases movies from Al-Shifa hospital
On the fifth day of its operation contained in the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis, the Israeli army released video of what it said was a 55-meter (180-foot) part of a fortified tunnel working 10 meters beneath the advanced, searching for to bolster its allegations that Hamas has used it as a base for its army operations.
The Israeli army additionally launched footage that it mentioned confirmed two hostages being taken contained in the hospital on Oct. 7, hours after the Hamas raid into Israel. Israeli officers mentioned they didn’t know the place the 2 hostages are actually. The Occasions verified the situation of the footage because the hospital, however not the identities of these proven or the time stamps.
Proof of an intensive Hamas command heart beneath the hospital has but to be revealed. Hamas has denied accusations that it makes use of civilian infrastructure, together with residential buildings, mosques and hospitals, to cover its army fortifications and command facilities. The group says Israel is committing conflict crimes by concentrating on civilian facilities.
Airstrike: A strike on a faculty in northern Gaza run by the U.N. that was getting used for shelter by 1000’s of displaced folks killed at least 24 people, a U.N. official said.
A hidden conflict over radio waves
A battle is raging in Ukraine within the invisible realm of electromagnetic waves, with radio alerts getting used to overwhelm communication hyperlinks to drones and troops, find targets and trick guided weapons.
Often known as digital warfare, the ways have changed into a cat-and-mouse sport between Russia and Ukraine, quietly driving momentum swings within the 21-month previous battle and forcing engineers to adapt. Russia has used highly effective jammers and decoy missiles to inundate Ukrainian air defenses, leaving Ukraine reliant on plane to struggle off Russian planes.
Evaluation: “Electronic warfare has impacted the fighting in Ukraine as much as weather and terrain,” mentioned Bryan Clark, a senior fellow on the Hudson Institute, a analysis institute in Washington.
Associated: European nations together with Germany, Norway and Britain are increasing weapons production to assist Kyiv. However the assist could also be coming too late, as winter looms and Ukraine’s counteroffensive in opposition to Russia stalls.
Argentina elects Javier Milei
In a victory for the worldwide far-right motion, Argentines chose Javier Milei, an economist and far-right libertarian who has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, as their subsequent president. He might be sworn in on Dec. 10.
Milei burst onto the historically closed Argentine political scene with a brash type, an embrace of conspiracy theories and a sequence of utmost proposals, together with pledges to slash spending and taxes, shut Argentina’s central financial institution and exchange the nation’s foreign money with the U.S. greenback. He has additionally proposed banning abortion and loosening rules on weapons.
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Nasreen Parveen, a gifted younger poet from India, needed extra freedom than her household would give her, and she or he ran away to Delhi to flee an organized marriage. Finally, she discovered an escape route from oppressive patriarchy by way of a path she by no means anticipated: romance. Read her story.
Lives Lived
Rosalynn Carter, the spouse of Jimmy Carter who turned probably the most politically lively first woman since Eleanor Roosevelt, has died at 96.
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A star who died enjoying soccer: Remembering Raphael Dwamena, who collapsed on a subject in Albania final week.
Cricket World Cup: India’s dominant World Cup run ended with a loss to Australia within the closing.
In Sweden, placing followers first: Whereas most of Europe’s soccer leagues battle to supply as a lot cash as doable, Sweden has chosen a different model.
Tennis rivalry: Novak Djokovic dismissed Carlos Alcaraz on the ATP Finals.
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Preserving a author’s legacy
Novels by Bessie Head are taught in lecture rooms round Africa, however she by no means achieved the celebrity of a few of her male counterparts on the continent. Now, as extra feminine African writers are gaining recognition, Head is being celebrated as a pioneer, and a tiny museum in her adopted hometown is attempting to protect her archive for future generations.
Head, an activist, journalist and writer, was born in South Africa in 1937 and later sought asylum in Botswana from the apartheid regime. Her assortment is housed at a group museum in Serowe, Botswana, the place she lived till her loss of life in 1986 at age 48.
The curators are searching for companions and funding to digitize the gathering, which incorporates tapes of Head’s conversations with the American poet Nikki Giovanni. Head’s novels, akin to “When Rain Clouds Gather” and “Maru,” eschew the massive political narratives of the Sixties and ’70s in favor of tales about unusual folks grappling with ethical questions.
— Lynsey Chutel, Briefings author based mostly in Johannesburg
