Israeli troops surround Gaza City, cut off northern part of besieged Hamas-ruled territory
The situation remains dire in the north. Some 800,000 people have heeded Israeli military orders to flee to southern Gaza, even though Israel had continued airstrikes in the area. Strikes in central and southern Gaza – the purported safe zone – killed at least 53 people on Sunday.
Israeli strikes on Gaza intensify as Western allies pile pressure on Tel Aviv to limit civilian casualties
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to meet Turkey’s foreign minister in Ankara, hours after hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian protest tried to storm an air base that houses US troops in southern Turkey.
Liverpool forward Luiz Diaz scores an emotional equaliser, sends message for his kidnapped dad
Diaz was embraced by Luton’s players and his own teammates on the field after the game.
Match-fixing: Experts say it’s linked to unsavoury criminal activities like human trafficking, drug dealing
Ben Paterson, director of data integrity and quality at IMG Arena and whose company monitors anomalies in betting markets that can’t be explained, says the “pantomime” of a fixed match harms not just sporting entertainment but also the commercial viability of a league or competition.
Israel rejects US push to pause fighting, scales up airstrikes on Gaza as death toll nears 10,000
Airstrikes hit the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza overnight, killing at least 40 people and wounding 34 others, the Health Ministry said. It said first responders and residents were still digging through the rubble, hoping to find survivors.
UN drugs office says Afghanistan opium crop dropped by 95 per cent after Taliban ban
The sharp decline could have major consequences for the economy in a country where around two-thirds of the population are already in need of humanitarian aid, the report said.
How top US officials coerced virologists to label Covid link to Wuhan lab a ‘conspiracy theory’
A week later, a February 26, 2020, commentary in Emerging Microbes & Infections repeated claims that lab-leak theory was a conspiracy theory. The paper was written by virologists – including Linda Saif, of Ohio State University – working behind the scenes with Baric and Shi Zhengli, who conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US top officials with ties to Wuhan Institute still fighting to discredit Covid link to Chinese lab
A report by the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released in July found that Fauci and other key scientists and government officials used the paper as a means to suppress the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
Beauty and the beast: Thousands of Black women in US diagnosed with uterine cancer linked to hair relaxers
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be about 66,000 new cases of uterine cancer diagnosed this year in the United States, less than a quarter of the number of 297,790 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and more than three times the 19,710 cases of ovarian cancer.
Rock & Roll: Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and Chaka Khan rock crowd at Hall of Fame 50th anniversary
The ceremony’s strong representation of Black and women artists this year came not long after the hall removed Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner from its board of directors. Wenner, who also co-founded the hall, had said that Black and female musicians “didn’t articulate at the level” of the white musicians featured in his new book of interviews. He later apologised.
