• Israel hits targets near Damascus with air strikes
    According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, the strikes had targeted "Hizbollah sites" in the Sayeda Zeinab district and near Damascus airport. Strong explosions were reported in the suburbs of Damascus, which have been previously targeted by strikes that Syrian authorities have blamed on Israel.

    A security official said that anti-aircraft defences shot down some missiles

    Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syria since civil war began in 2011

  • Mobilizing global efforts to achieve sustainability of supply chains through digitization and the adoption of advanced technologies is no longer a luxury, but a key factor in overcoming climate challenges, says Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Trade.
    "The UAE launched the 'Trade Tech Initiative' in partnership with the World Economic Forum. The initiative aims to accelerate the digitization of international supply chains, enhance customs procedures, improve developing countries' access to the global trading system, and spur a new era of trade growth," he adds.
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  • UN climate talks home in on fossil fuel deal
    Negotiators have failed to produce a new draft agreement since the last text was released on Friday. The document includes four different paths out of fossil fuels, but it also has a fifth option: leaving the issue out of the final deal.
  • Saudis, Iraq stand firm as COP28 mulls phase-out of fossil fuels
    With less than 48 hours left before the conference's official end, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber invited ministers to give their views in a "majlis" -- a traditional Gulf Arab meeting held in a circle. While Jaber called the gathering in an effort to produce a compromise, warning that "failure is not an option", countries...

    The European Union and members of Pacific islands states threatened by rising seas reiterated their calls for a phase-out of fossil fuels.

    A Saudi official told the COP28 majlis that Riyadh's "perspectives and concerns" must be taken into account.

  • UN agency chief says Israel trying to force Gazans into Egypt
    "The United Nations and several member states, including the US, have firmly rejected forcibly displacing Gazans out of the Gaza Strip," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said. "But the developments we are witnessing point to attempts to move Palestinians into Egypt, regardless of whether they stay there or are resettled elsewhere." "But the developments we are...
  • COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber warns ‘failure is not an option’
    With the conference in Dubai due to officially end on Tuesday, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber urged the nearly 200 nations at the talks to "show flexibility, to act with urgency and to find the common ground". Jaber told reporters that lack of progress or "watering down my ambition" was not an option.

    What we are after is the common good. What we're after is what is in the best interest of everyone, everywhere," he said.

    Jaber spoke ahead of a "majlis", a traditional Emirati assembly where people sit in a circle and try to resolve differences, which he organized in an effort to find a deal.

  • UN Security Council ‘paralyzed’ over Gaza: UN chief
    Antonio Guterres had convened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after two months of fighting in Gaza. He deployed the rarely-used Article 99 of the UN Charter to bring to the council's attention "any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security".
  • Protestors demand end of fossil fuels, Gaza war at COP28
    The demonstrators chanted "Climate justice!" and "Ceasefire now!" as they held pro-environment banners painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag in their hands. Mexican activist Isavela Lopez said, "It's the same fight, it's the same thing -- it's colonialism, it's genocide,"as she described the links between climate injustice and the war.

    The 'Blue Zone' where the COP28 talks are taking place is currently under UN control.

    At least 17,490 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli attacks

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