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As Israel continuously pounding the Gaza Strip, the families of at least 150 Israeli hostages inside Gaza are growing increasingly terrified, and surrounding areas have been evacuated.
In a Monday press conference in New York, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the deaths that resulted from the weekend’s Hamas strikes and Israeli counterattacks. According to Margaret Besheer, a U.N. correspondent for VOA, Guterres called for a two-state solution to the crisis through negotiation and urged both sides to protect civilians and Hamas to release hostages. Guterres also urged both sides to protect civilians.
On Sunday in Kirkland, Washington State, two rallies faced off. While pro-Palestinian protest participants came to show solidarity for Gaza, Israeli expats gathered to support their country in its war against Hamas.
The number of people killed during the Hamas incursion into Israel has surpassed 600, making it the deadliest single day in Israeli history. Israeli airstrikes in retaliation have claimed at least 300 Palestinian lives.Linda Gradstein has this report from Jerusalem. VOA News
Due to its Witwatersrand Basin goldfields, Johannesburg, South Africa, which was founded in 1886 after gold was discovered, eventually became the world’s largest producer of the precious metal throughout the 20th century. However, many of the old mines have closed, and their places have been taken by small-scale illegal miners and an array of social issues.
On Friday, some Haitians in New York protested against the UN Security Council’s approval of a resolution to send an international police force led by Kenya to Haiti. The police force is expected to be sent to the Caribbean country with mandates to aid in fighting against ongoing gang violence
Ghana’s parliament voted a bill, making it a crime to accuse someone of practicing witchcraft in late July. The bill will also force the closure of camps where hundreds of accused witches live in exile if the president signs it into law.
All illegal immigrants must leave Pakistan willingly by November 1 or face deportation, according to Pakistani authorities. The Afghan population, many of whom fled their country after the Taliban captured power in August 2021, are those who will be most affected by the new order.
Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from September 29 to October 1, for the fourth World Culture Festival. The festival was first held in Bangalore in 2006, and it continued in Berlin in 2011 and Delhi in 2016. More than 3 million people showed up to that event.
In September, there was a sudden surge in the number of migrants crossing the Rio Grande after a decline in illegal immigration at the border. City officials in Eagle Pass, Texas, were forced to declare and extend a state of emergency due to the sudden surge of thousands into the border city.