The United States is to send $1 billion in fresh military aid to Israel, according to reports.
According to media reports, the Biden administration has informed Congress that it intends to give a $1 billion package of military aid to Israel, despite the US' objections to a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and worries over mounting civilian casualties. According to Reuters, the US Department of State sent the package to Congress for consideration on Tuesday, citing two anonymous US officials. According to congressional aides, the package, which has yet to be approved, contains approximately $700 million in tank ammo, $500 million in tactical vehicles, and $60 million in mortar rounds. The request for approval for the transfer of lethal weapons comes a week after President Joe Biden halted a single shipment of bombs due to concerns about Israel's offensive in Rafah, in Gaza's southernmost tip, from which the UN estimates that nearly half a million people have fled.
After the UK passed a bill on Rwanda, five refugees perished while attempting to cross the English Channel.
Tuesday saw the deaths of five individuals while attempting to cross the English Channel, soon after the UK approved a law to deport immigrants. bodies found on the beach near Wimereaux, in the north of France. Keep an eye out for additional information!
Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrike of a central Gaza house: at least fifteen.
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have targeted a densely populated residential neighborhood. Fifteen persons inside a family house were killed in one incident. More bodies buried beneath the debris are proving difficult for first responders to recover.
Japanese banks are preparing with training for a move in policy rates.
Japan's central bank has kept interest rates zero for the past eight years to boost the country's stagnating economy. In other words, banks were incentivized to lend more by charging a fee to maintain surplus reserves. However, a policy change is coming because inflation has been above the Bank of Japan's 2% objective for more than a year. The Bank of Japan is anticipated to increase interest rates for the first time since 2007 as early as this week. Watch to find out more!
Iran strikes Israel, threatening to unleash weapons never before seen.
Iran has threatened to carry out "any adventure" against Israel, threatening to deploy weaponry "never used before." "Our next response will be immediate, stronger, and more extensive if Israel seeks adventure," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian declared in a conversation with UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
US earthquake: A 4.8-magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey and New York
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that an earthquake of magnitude of 4.8 shook the northeastern US on Friday morning, causing vibrations to travel down the Atlantic coast between Boston and Philadelphia. The earthquake's epicenter was in Lebanon, New Jersey, about 45 miles (72 km) west of New York City. The quake caused buildings in crowded Manhattan and all five boroughs to tremble. The USGS estimates that up to 45 million individuals may have felt the shocks.
NY immigration crisis: A visitor was shot in Times Square, and police were assaulted The newest transient residents of Randall's Island are migrants, who make up about 3,000 of the tent-dwelling migrants in an island park close to New York. It is the biggest asylum seeker facility in New York, and it is now having trouble finding room for new arrivals.
Egypt: Al-Ahram film studio in Giza is on fire; no casualties have been recorded.
Early on Sunday morning, a large fire broke out at a film studio in Giza. One of Egypt's first cinematography studios is the AL Aram Film Studio. In addition to evacuating inhabitants from surrounding regions, the Giza authorities sent out a team of firefighters to stop the fire from spreading. Watch to find out more!
8 million internally displaced Sudanese since April of last year - World at War
For the last eleven months, the Republic of Sudan—the third-largest country in Africa—has been devastated by conflict. On April 15, hostilities broke out between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, and the Sudanese armed forces. Following the toppling of former strongman Omar Al-Bashir in 2019, the army under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF under Mohamed Hamadan Dagalo shared authority with civilians. Additionally, the army and RSF collaborated to carry out a coup in 2021. However, the planned integration of the paramilitary RSF into the regular army—a politically motivated shift plan approved by the international community—caused a deterioration in ties between the army and the RSF. More than 8 million people have been displaced by the conflict since it started in mid-April. It has also destroyed the capital city of Khartoum, sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, and led to ethnically motivated killings in Darfur. The Sudanese army now claims to have retaken the state broadcaster's Omdurman headquarters on March 12th, marking the biggest victory over rival paramilitary group RSF. Since shortly after hostilities broke out in mid-April, the RSF had possessed the headquarters. Details are brought to you by Mohammed Saleh.
WhatsApp is testing out some new functionalities. Users of Apple products are vulnerable. There were several fascinating technological advancements this past week, and we've compiled the most significant ones in our tech wrap.
Climate change resilience is increased via coral farms.
The marvel of nature is coral reefs. All around the world, they can be found in seas and ocean floors. A quarter of all marine life is supported by these assemblages of mollusks, algae, and coral. However, the actions of humans have endangered them. Marine life has been significantly impacted by bleaching, one of the most detrimental effects of human activity on coral reefs.
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