Año: 2024

Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills dozens of people in tent city, Gaza officials say – Generic English

Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills dozens of people in tent city, Gaza officials say – Generic English

Connected media - Associated media Gazans have been uprooted time and time again during Israel’s more than seven-month invasion and bombardment. Faced with the prospect of having to pack their bags and flee once again, some in Rafah are putting off leaving, at least for now. According to the United Nations, more than 800,000 Palestinians have already fled the southern city of Rafah and surrounding areas in the past three weeks as Israel launches a military offensive there. But many continue to resist in what was once considered the safest place in the Gaza Strip, where more than a million…
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Jerry Grote, 1969 Mets World Series catcher, dies at 81 – Generic English

Jerry Grote, 1969 Mets World Series catcher, dies at 81 – Generic English

Connected media - Linked media Grote was “a tough catcher who pushed his teammates to throw harder, who could assault reporters and official scorers,” sports columnist George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote in 1981. He quoted Grote as saying, “I had a red neck. I was red all over.” Gerald Wayne Grote was born on October 6, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas. He was the eldest of three children of Clarence and Leila Rittmann Grote. In high school he pitched, caught and played third base, then enrolled at nearby Trinity University. Del Baker, a former Major League catcher,…
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Israeli airstrike kills dozens at tent city in Rafah, Gaza officials say – Generic English

Israeli airstrike kills dozens at tent city in Rafah, Gaza officials say – Generic English

Related media - Associated media An Israeli airstrike on a makeshift tent city for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, killed at least 45 people Sunday night and wounded 249, the Gaza Health Ministry said Monday. The Israeli military said the attack was aimed at a Hamas compound.In a statement, the Israeli army said it was examining reports that “several civilians in the area were injured” by the airstrike and subsequent fire. A later statement said two Hamas leaders were killed in the strike.The Palestinian Red Crescent said its ambulance teams took a “large” number of victims to the Tal as…
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Milk containing the avian flu virus can make mice sick, according to a study

Milk containing the avian flu virus can make mice sick, according to a study

Connected media - Connected media Pasteurization kills germs by heating milk to high temperatures. In the new study, when the researchers heated the milk to the temperatures and time periods typically used for pasteurization, the virus was either undetectable or greatly diminished, but it was not completely inactivated. Dr Kawaoka cautioned that laboratory conditions were different to those used in commercial pasteurization, so the results did not mean milk on supermarket shelves contained active viruses. By contrast, the finding that raw milk contains large amounts of the virus is “robust,” he said. Raw milk has become popular in recent years…
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The United States receives “unilateral” recognition of Palestine from Spain, Norway and Ireland

The United States receives “unilateral” recognition of Palestine from Spain, Norway and Ireland

Linked media - Related media US President Joe Biden believes a Palestinian state must be won through negotiations and not through unilateral recognition. This is how the White House indicated it after Ireland, Spain and Norway said they would recognize a Palestinian state this month. “President it is a partisan society of a two-state solution and he has seen it throughout his career,” said a spokesperson for the Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca. “It is necessary to achieve this through direct negotiations between the parties, not through unilateral recognition,” he added. During the end of the week,…
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