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Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee parts of southern Gaza, residents said Thursday, signalling a possible expansion of their offensive to areas where hundreds of thousands of people who heeded earlier evacuation orders are crowded into UN-run shelters and family homes. Meanwhile, soldiers continued searching Al Shifa Hospital in the north, in a raid that began early Wednesday. They displayed guns they say were found hidden in one building, but have yet to release any evidence of the central Hamas command center that Israel has said is concealed beneath the complex. Hamas and staff at the hospital, Gaza’s…

A shooting incident inside a public bus shook Filipinos’ social media feeds on Wednesday evening — especially since the killing was caught on camera and the video went viral. Two elderly passengers, who appeared to be sleeping on the front-row seats of the bus, were shot dead as the Manila-bound Victory Liner bus was travelling on a road in the town of Carranglan, Nueva Ecija province, said the police, which shared a footage of the incident. The victims reportedly rode the bus from the terminal in Isabela province while the two unidentified gunmen boarded from the province of Nueva Vizcaya,…

A Pakistan high court on Thursday extended until November 20 the stay against the jail trial of former prime minister Imran Khan in the cipher case. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz extended the stay during the hearing of 71-year-old Khan’s intra-court appeal against the jail trial. The appeal was filed against a single-member bench of the same court which last month upheld the trial of Khan in the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi where he has been incarcerated. According to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the IHC “extended the stay of the…

The UN human rights chief on Thursday highlighted allegations of serious rights violations in the Israel-Hamas war that he said needed “full accountability”. Volker Turk said “extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous investigation and full accountability”. The UN high commissioner for human rights did not name Israel or Hamas, but he spoke after a visit last week to the Middle East, where he warned that both sides were committing war crimes in a conflict that has left thousands dead. “Where national authorities prove unwilling or unable to carry out…

With Israel continuing its military offensive in Gaza in retaliation to last month’s attacks by Hamas, India on Thursday once again called for de-escalating the situation and underlined the need for observing international humanitarian law in the face of increasing civilian casualties in the conflict. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at his weekly media briefing that India is looking at sending more humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people. Israel has been carrying out a massive military operation in Gaza following the unprecedented and multi-pronged attacks on Israeli cities by Hamas on October 7. Asked about New Delhi’s view…

The UN’s World Food Programme said Thursday that civilians in Gaza faced starvation as food and water have become “practically non-existent”. By AFP “With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation,” the executive director of the Rome-based WFP, Cindy McCain, said in a statement.

Voting for this year’s Federal National Council (FNC) elections opened across all seven emirates on Wednesday, with several people arriving early to cast their ballots. In some places, including the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) — one of the emirate’s three polling stations where Emiratis can vote in person — it was all smiles and jubilation. Some citizens came in wheelchairs to exercise their right to vote despite all difficulties. Taking place across the country for three days — ending on Saturday — the elections will see UAE citizens select their representatives for the parliamentary body. “This is the first…

The Dubai Police, represented by the Human Trafficking Crimes Control Centre of the General Department of Human Rights and the General Department of Training, in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE), has conducted a course to familiarise the ministry’s inspectors with human trafficking and its transnational aspects. Brigadier Hasan Nasser Al Razooqi, Director of Administrative Affairs of the General Department of Training, officially launched the course at MoHRE in the presence of Colonel Saeed Rashid Al Heli, Deputy Director of Anti-Human Trafficking Crime Control Centre in the General Department of Human Rights; Shamma Al Muhairy, Director…

Students in the UAE are ready to adopt technology but at times the adults encourage them to adhere to conventional approaches to learning, an expert has said. Ted Purinton, founding dean of Sharjah Education Academy, said students are ready for the 21st century, but the adults are trying to fit them into a 20th-century model. He was speaking to Khaleej Times on the sidelines of the Global Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS) in Dubai. Purinton will be speaking about ‘The Artificial (but solvable) discontinuity between secondary and tertiary’ at the event. He said schools play a crucial role in shaping…

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