Author: Aidan
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Top Hamas Official Killed In Beirut Blast, Hezbollah Says
An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and was carried out by an Israeli drone. Israeli officials declined to comment. If…
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Harvard President Claudine Gay Announces She Will Resign
In her statement to the university community, Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, wrote that “it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor ― two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am ― and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats…
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The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat
Rather than reckoning with the need for meat reduction, the FAO’s Global Roadmap for reducing the climate impacts of food systems, released on December 10 to coincide with COP 28’s “Food, Agriculture, and Water Day,” called for increased livestock productivity coupled with emissions reductions via marginal technical mitigations like feed additives and genetic modifications to cattle.…
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Israel’s Supreme Court Overturns Key Part Of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
In an 8-7 decision, the Supreme Court justices struck down the law because of the “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the State of Israel as a democratic country.” The justices also voted 12-3 that they had the authority to overturn so-called “Basic Laws,” major pieces of legislation that serve as a…
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Judge orders Starbucks to rehire, give backpay to fired Colorado union leader
Alendra ‘Len’ Harris says she feels validated by the judge’s ruling, which she says also backs up the hundreds of similar allegations from other Starbucks workers around the country who have unionized in an effort to get better pay and working conditions. Love to see it. May 2024 be year of the active union.
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Roughly 10 per cent of global emissions come from tourism, new climate report says
“At present, no country, no destination, and no sub-sector have achieved meaningful reductions in tourism greenhouse gas emissions,” the report says. “In 2023, the world witnessed an extraordinary succession of broken climate records, causing widespread and profound impacts on ecosystems and society. This moment compels a proportionate response from the tourism community.” Bourgeois travellers creating…
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More Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia despite rejection from locals
About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh after fleeing their homes in Myanmar to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces. But the camps in Bangladesh are squalid, with surging gang violence and rampant hunger, leading many to flee again. A mob of Indonesian students on Wednesday attacked the basement of a local community…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping says economy is ‘more resilient and dynamic’
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on December 31 that the country’s economy had grown “more resilient and dynamic than before” as he addressed the nation in a speech marking the New Year. … China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, Mr. Xi said, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two…