The attackers, Palestinians from East Jerusalem, were shot dead by off-duty soldiers and an armed civilian, police said.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency identified the gunmen as 30- and 38-year-old brothers who were affiliated with Hamas, which runs Gaza.
“The operation came as a natural response to unprecedented crimes conducted by the Occupation (Israel),” it said in a statement, citing the military offensive in Gaza and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Israel’s far-right minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told reporters at the site of the attack that it “proves again how we must not show weakness, that we must speak to Hamas only through the (rifle) scopes, only through the war.”
Blinken, on his third visit to the region since the war erupted, said Thursday’s shooting was a reminder “of the threat from terrorism that Israel and Israelis face every single day … My heart goes out to the victims of this attack.”
The violence came as Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their six-day ceasefire in Gaza by one more day to allow negotiators to keep working on deals to swap hostages held in the enclave for Palestinian prisoners.
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TAIPEI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure against the island over the past four years, leading to concerns of a conflict that would have global repercussions.
But Tsai, in a transcript of the interview her office published on Thursday, said China had too many issues at the moment.
The DPP pushing this dangerous independence double act will only poison the interests and well being of compatriots on the island," spokesperson Chen Binhua told a news conference.
Speaking to reporters in Taipei on Thursday, top China-policy maker Chiu Tai-san dismissed Beijing’s criticisms.
“Honestly speaking, those comments show they don’t even know what democratic politics and elections are,” said Chiu, who heads Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council.
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MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Russia’s interior ministry has prepared draft legislation that would force foreigners to sign a “loyalty agreement” forbidding them from criticising official policy, discrediting Soviet military history, or contravening traditional family values.
Since President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has introduced a slew of tough laws that outlaw discrediting the military, and courts have handed down long jail sentences to opposition activists.
The TASS state news agency reported on Wednesday that the draft legislation had been prepared by the interior ministry and would force all foreigners entering Russia to sign an agreement that essentially restricts what they can say in public.
The Kremlin said earlier this month that some measure of censorship was needed as Russian troops were fighting in Ukraine, and cautioned those who wanted to criticise the military to think carefully before they did.
For the draft to become law, it has to be introduced to the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, and to go through committee review and several readings before being submitted to Putin for signing.
“The draft law on the so-called ‘loyalty agreement’ with migrants entering the Russian Federation is in a high degree of readiness,” Leonid Kalashnikov told Interfax.
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My friend in Saudi is one of the consultants that helped the Prince to win this bid for Riyadh and he’s told me all about this initiative.
We all know that Saudi Arabia, like much of the middle east, has got some atrocious human rights issues. However, the Prince is really try to herald a new age of diversity and tolerance and modernity in Saudi and I think that we should be optimistic about this gradual change of direction.
It’s very easy to be outraged on the internet. It’s very difficult to enact real world changes in a positive direction.
Although I’m American I know real Saudis who are trying to make positive changes in the country and in the region. This is a small example of the their success.
You stfu you lying twat. You don’t know real saudis. no rational Saudi is happy about the poverty, repression, unreprested high taxes, corruption and stealing of country’s wealth, oil and resources, no freedom of speech, zero political participation or reprezentation, illegal, forced and lethal eviction of lands for government projects, lack of government support and jailing , killing, and torturing and beheadings of all protestors and human right activists. They have an entire minestry that pays shill to spread bullshit propaganda online.
It fucking disgusts me when an American with his freedom and rights says that people in corrupt oppressive dictatorships love it and doing good when they can’t even voice anything on their own
I hate to break it to you, my friend, but there are many, many wonderful people even in the terrible places of the world. I’m sorry that you haven’t met enough of them to have any optimism about humanity.
lying scum. no one loves oppression and no human rights, zero political participation and no freedom of speech. poverty, corruption and stealing of public wealth.
CAIRO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A top Sudanese general has said the United Arab Emirates is sending supplies to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), publicly accusing the UAE of involvement in its war with its powerful paramilitary rival for the first time.
Army leaders had previously only hinted at interference from unnamed neighbouring countries in the seven-month-old war, which has displaced more than 6 million people and triggered waves of ethnically driven killings in Darfur.
Atta said the UAE had funnelled unspecified supplies to the RSF through Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad.
Atta serves as a deputy to army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who recently announced his first trip to the UAE since the outbreak of war to coincide with U.N. climate summit COP28 next week.
While the UAE backed Sudan’s aborted political transition after the 2019 overthrow of Omar al-Bashir, it has remained publicly quiet on the war.
Last year the UAE signed a deal to build a port on Sudan’s Red Sea coast, among investments in agriculture and other fields.
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In figures deemed reliable by the United Nations, Gaza health authorities say more than 15,000 people have been confirmed killed in Israel’s bombardment of the narrow enclave, around 40% of them children, with many more feared to be lost under rubble.
Israel has sworn to annihilate Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, after its gunmen burst through the border killing around 1,200 people and seizing 240 captives on Oct. 7.
“Eventually we will see more people dying from disease than we are even seeing from the bombardment if we are not able to put back (together) this health system,” the WHO’s Margaret Harris said at a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
She repeated concerns about a rise in infectious diseases, particularly diarrhoea in infants and children, with cases for those aged five and older surging to more than 100 times normal levels by early November.
Citing a U.N. report on the living conditions of displaced residents in northern Gaza, Harris said: “(There are) no medicines, no vaccination activities, no access to safe water and hygiene and no food,” she said.
She described the collapse of Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza as a “tragedy” and voiced concern about the detention of some of its medical staff by Israeli forces during a WHO evacuation convoy.
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Click here to see the summaryNIAMEY, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Niger’s junta has revoked an anti-migration law that had helped reduce the flow of West Africans to Europe but which was reviled by desert dwellers whose economies had long relied on the traffic, it said on Monday. The law, which made it illegal to transport migrants through Niger, was passed in May 2015 as the number of people travelling across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa reached record highs, creating a political and humanitarian crisis in Europe where governments came under pressure to stop the influx. Niger’s junta, which took power in a July coup, repealed the law on Saturday and announced it on Monday evening on state television. The junta is reassessing its relations with former western allies who condemned the coup, and is seeking to shore up support at home, including in the northern desert communities that had benefited most from migration. In return, the European Union launched the 5 billion euro Trust Fund for Africa in 2015, aimed at eradicating the root causes of migration, but many felt it was not enough. Andre Chani used to earn thousands of dollars a month driving migrants through the desert before police impounded his trucks in 2016. — Saved 37% of original text.
BEIJING, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Northeast China, which borders Russia and North Korea, was hit by unusually cold weather on Monday, with sub-freezing temperatures in some cities expected to further plummet to levels seen more typically in January.
Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, will brace for temperatures as low as minus 25 Celsius (minus 13 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, and the weather will remain below freezing for the rest of the week, according to national weather forecasters.
So far this month, precipitation, be it snow, sleet or freezing rain, has blanketed the northeastern Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning.
Precipitation at many weather stations including the three provincial capitals of Harbin, Changchun and Shenyang has shattered previous records, following one of the warmest Octobers in decades under the influence of El Nino.
With the successive arrivals of two cold air masses early this week, temperatures in northeast China could reach “three-nine or even four-nine levels,” warned Chinese meteorologists, referring to dates on the Chinese almanac.
Chinese farmers in the past divided the weeks after the Winter Solstice into nine nine-day periods ahead of spring ploughing.
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Click here to see the summary“This is not common, we are trying to find a precedent and we can’t,” said Pavlos Marinakis, a spokesman for the Greek government. Appearing on the BBC over the weekend, Mitsotakis compared the separation of the sculptures to cutting the Mona Lisa in half, a characterisation rejected by British government. Marinakis said the planned talks between the two leaders were meant to have been on global issues, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, migration and the climate crisis. The group, the Parthenon Project, has proposed a deal that would see the sculptures reunified in Athens - without Britain and Greece needing to agree on who owns them. Ed Vaizey, a former Conservative culture minister who advises the group, said that Sunak’s action was a “plot twist” given Britain’s previous stance that resolving the issue was a matter for the British Museum itself. Sunak’s office on Monday said Britain’s relationship with Greece was “hugely important” and that the two countries needed to work together on global challenges. — Saved 58% of original text.
SEOUL, Nov 28 (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday made a rare mention of dissenting votes in recent elections, although analysts dismissed it as an attempt to portray an image of a normal society rather than signalling any meaningful increase of rights in the authoritarian state.
The reclusive North has one of the most highly controlled societies in the world, with leader Kim Jong Un accused of using a system of patronage and repression to retain absolute power.
The North’s parliament and regional councils serve as a rubber stamp to the ruling Workers’ Party, with their elections usually registering over 99% voter turnout.
“The portrayal of a more democratic society, particularly in comparison to South Korea and the U.S., is aimed at reinforcing the regime’s legitimacy and authenticity on the world stage,” think tank, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, said in a report.
A photo released by state media showed Kim Jong Un casting a ballot, standing before two boxes - one in green for approval, and the other in red for dissent.
The voter turnout slightly decreased to 99.63% from 99.98% four years ago, a sign analysts say that could indicate a minor weakening in state control in a country where voting is considered mandatory.
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Yeah, I wonder what they’re actually doing. Are they making it safer, or just shitty they aren’t taking a cut, and changing it so they can skim off the top.
Apple Pay and similar services make payments more secure by completely hiding your actual card number from the merchant, meaning it is literally impossible to compromise your card number (can’t steal what’s not there in the first place) and it does so without introducing any new vulnerabilities or parties to the transaction.
Cool to know! What I’m wondering, though, is what changes the government are making, specifically. Why do they think it’s bad, and what are they changing.
At this point it doesn't actually seem like they're proposing any specific changes at all. The draft changes some definitions in a way that Apple Pay is included as a "participant" and gives the Reserve Bank of Australia regulatory authority over it under the Payment Systems Regulation Act. Considering the fact that Australia is the country that first pushed the link tax (basically a way to make Facebook give money to Rupert Murdoch and friends just because), I'm not terribly optimistic.
This is our world, these are the morons we inhabit it with.
X is (very stupidly) unregulated in all things that aren’t talking shit about Musk, but that just means that we get a daily dosage of “raw humanity” and we don’t like it because it’s fucking gross. Most social media companies know this and sanitize it for us to enjoy. X is like walking down the street in some really depressed town where drug addicts and weirdos are running around naked shouting at “the man in the wires who tells me to mate with Barny.”
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