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Six infants in the enclave, including a 20-day-old baby, lost their lives to hypothermia in just a single week of the chilly weather that has engulfed Gaza. Three of the five Palestinian infants who died from freezing to death in less than a week resided in al-Mawasi’s “humanitarian zone.” The most common cause of hypothermia—the severe and possibly dangerous fall in body temperature is extended exposure to cold. According to Nasser Hospital doctor Dr. Fidda Al-Nadi, who spoke to CBS News, the hospital admits one or two hypothermia patients each day. According to Al-Nadi, the youngest are the most at…

After 40 years after the catastrophic event which claimed thousands of lives, the toxic waste from the Union Carbide plants finally began moving out of Bhopal on January 2th, 2025. Although workers at different factories in the industrial estate near Indore expressed concerns about their personal safety, trucks transporting hazardous waste from the 1984 gas tragedy started to leave the disused Union Carbide site in Bhopal on Wednesday night for a disposal plant in Pithampur, 230 kilometres away. The Catastrophe Methyl isocyanate (MIC), a chemical that leaked from Union Carbide India Ltd.’s (UCIL) pesticide facility, transformed the city of Bhopal…

Shuchi Talati’s brilliant directorial debut ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ opens with a scene at a high school assembly where it is announced that the protagonist 16-year old Mira is chosen as the head prefect of her boarding school in the Himalayas. The audience follows her life at home and school as it gets increasingly entangled with her classmate, Srinivas. Her relationship with her mother Anila is left unsettled after he starts frequenting Mira’s house. The film navigates a myriad of desires in relation to the societal norms that remain imposed upon Indian women. At its heart, Girls Will Be Girls…

On the morning of Sunday December 29th, an aircraft crashed upon landing in South Korea, claiming a lot of lives. 179 of the 181 passengers died in the plane crash, which was returning from Bangkok, Thailand. Because they were situated in the tail area of the aircraft, just two flight attendants survived the harrowing accident. There have been investigations surrounding the cause of the crash and fire authorities say it was due to adverse weather conditions and a bird strike. However, experts have reminded that a variety of circumstances might have contributed to the tragedy. After regaining consciousness, the two…

According to Israel’s military and the Health Ministry in the enclave, Israeli soldiers detained around 240 Palestinians—including dozens of medical workers and the facility’s director, from a hospital they invaded in north Gaza on Friday. According to the Health Ministry, Friday’s airstrikes targeting the area around the hospital killed an estimated 50 individuals including the medical staff. The administration of the hospital have made urgent requests to be safeguarded in recent days, claiming that Israeli bombardment and explosives have started to routinely target the facility. In a raid that shut down the last significant operational medical facility in northern Gaza,…

President Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law in December 2024, citing immediate threats to national security and claims of electoral meddling that the administration claimed required extraordinary measures to maintain order and sovereignty. This marked a staggering but incredibly short-lived suspension of civil rights in South Korea.  After President Yoon’s unsuccessful effort to implement martial law on December 3rd led to his impeachment by parliament, Prime Minister Han assumed the position. After lawmakers decided to expel the acting president, South Korea’s second head of state in less than two weeks—the country’s leadership crisis worsened on Friday. According to opposition lawmakers…

Books make some of the most thoughtful and timeless gifts, especially if it is chosen with consideration and in line with the person’s taste and preferences. Here is an assortment of recommendations with diverse genres and moods to make gift-giving this holiday season a little more manageable. 1. Absurd and Moving Contemporary Novel—Anxious People by Fredrik Backman “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.” In…

Christmas films often have this standard of being cozy, comforting, uplifting and being laced with abundant holiday cheer. Set in the 1970s during the winter holidays, the 2023 film ‘The Holdovers’ veers away from this typicality of Christmas movies by being a palpable portrayal of the melancholy and loneliness that is present during the festive season and the experience of finding yourself celebrating it with a family that is not bound to you by blood, but family nonetheless. “You don’t tell a boy that’s been left behind at Christmas that you are aching to cut him loose, that nobody wants…

Back on July 31st of this year, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was murdered at a guesthouse he was staying at Tehran, the capital of Iran where he had travelled for the inauguration of President Massoud Pezeshkian. There had been conflicting reports on the nature of the attack—some suggested that he and his bodyguard were killed by an explosive device that was smuggled to the guesthouse two months prior to the assassination and some claimed it was a “short range projectile” fired at about 2am local time from the outside of the military guesthouse that he was murdered with.  Iran’s Supreme…

In what could classify as a terror act, a car crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg on Friday, leaving many injured and at least five people killed—including a nine-year old boy. According to the local authority, at least 68 other individuals were hurt and 15 of them were critically injured. The incident is similar to an attack in Berlin in 2016 where 13 people were killed when a driver deliberately crashed a truck into the crowd. Authorities declared that the driver had been arrested at the spot and characterised the occurrence…