Tuesday Briefing

Gaza loss of life toll climbs as U.S. urges restraint

Practically a month after Israel started its bombardment of Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned greater than 10,000 folks had been killed and greater than 25,000 injured. The figures couldn’t be independently verified, however a Pentagon spokesman mentioned that “we all know the numbers are within the 1000’s.”

Israel’s navy mentioned yesterday that its troops had minimize off Gaza Metropolis, successfully splitting the Gaza Strip in half, which it mentioned would make it more durable for Hamas to regulate the enclave.

Israel, which has vowed to destroy Hamas for its Oct. 7 bloodbath in southern Israel, mentioned it had struck about 450 targets in a single day in Gaza, the place cellphone and web connectivity gave the impression to be steadily returning after a communications blackout.

Worldwide stress: The U.N., together with many countries and assist teams, has urged Israel to decide to a cease-fire or “humanitarian pause” to assist Gazan civilians, however Israeli officers have resisted these calls, together with from President Biden. Learn our evaluation on the bounds of Biden’s leverage, in Ukraine in addition to Israel.

Antony Blinken: The U.S. secretary of state yesterday completed his tour of the Center East in Ankara, the Turkish capital. He mentioned efforts by the Biden administration to extend the stream of humanitarian assist into Gaza and to stop the battle from increasing have been making progress.

In Gaza: Medical doctors say they’re performing surgical procedures with out anesthesia amid extreme shortages of medication, water, meals and gasoline.

Donald Trump takes the stand

Donald Trump, a number one contender to win the U.S. presidential election a 12 months from now, took the witness stand in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan. In chaotic testimony, the previous president lashed out at his accusers and denied their claims, even whereas conceding involvement in a number of the conduct on the coronary heart of the case.

Trump attacked New York’s legal professional common, Letitia James, as a “political hack,” derided the continuing as “very unfair” and scolded the decide overseeing the case, Arthur Engoron, for having determined earlier than the trial that he had dedicated fraud. “He referred to as me a fraud, and he doesn’t know something about me,” he mentioned, pointing on the decide, who flashed a smile.

Trump is accused by James of inflating his internet price to defraud banks and insurers, and he acknowledged serving to to assemble annual monetary statements submitted to the banks. The decide, who will resolve the end result of the case, repeatedly admonished Trump for in a roundabout way responding to questions from James’s staff.

Russian strikes on Odesa

Russia hit the Ukrainian metropolis of Odesa with missiles and drones, injuring 5 folks and damaging an artwork museum, the authorities mentioned. In one other setback, Ukraine supplied a loss of life toll for a Russian strike Friday on a Ukrainian medal ceremony, saying it had misplaced 19 troopers within the assault.

That is Fiona. For no less than two years, she languished alone on the backside of a Scottish cliff, rising more and more woolly and surviving on snacks of grass. It wasn’t precisely clear how she’d gotten there — she might have been separated from her mom earlier than falling or wandering down the hill, ending up on the backside and not using a path again up.

On Saturday, the animal, dubbed Britain’s loneliest sheep, was rescued and dropped at reside on a farm. However some animal rights activists are involved about her new dwelling.

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A view to the longer term, and of the previous

The James Webb House Telescope is a huge leap within the historical past of stargazing, giving us detailed portraits of distant galaxies and shut neighbors alike. A few of its observations have challenged our understanding of the photo voltaic system’s timeline — together with what we predict we all know in regards to the Huge Bang — altering our view of the universe eternally.

The telescope additionally offers us a glance again in time: In some instances, mild has traveled via house for 40 million years earlier than reaching Webb’s mirrors, which implies we’re seeing it because it seemed 40 million years in the past.