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The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Place de la Concorde. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian The 17th Paralympic Games began under blue skies then lit up the night as Paris made a powerful start in extending to disability sport the same energy and joy that has so far characterised its historic summer. In the coming 11 days there will be new heroes made, new stories told and, just perhaps, the possibility of a legacy of positive change for people with disability. But in front of a crowd of 35,000 spectators at the Place de la Concorde, a ceremony threaded together by bold, expressive dance and featuring a parade of 128 often jubilant competing nations created a party atmosphere, and an image of a country still “en fete”. As the head of the International Paralympic Committee, Andrew Parsons called for a “revolution of inclusion” in his speech and the president of Paris 2024, Tony Estanguet, praised the fans, “la public complètement fou”, there was space left for the French president, Emmanuel Macron, only to perform the briefest of ceremonial functions, declaring the Games open, as the energy of night swarmed elsewhere. Unlike the Olympic opening ceremony there were no shots of sodden performers to spoil the party. Temperatures of 30C and cloudless skies meant that everything passed without disruption and the tribunes were full. By the time the French delegation arrived in the arena past 10pm to the sounds of Champs-Élysées and various other pieces of chanson that remain in the collective memory, the spirit of the summer of 2024 was once again in full effect. Involving 500 performers, including dancers, pop stars, furry revolutionary hats and the ubiquitous DJ, the title of the ceremony was Paradox, the theme a journey from Discord to Concord. As with every aspect of Paris 2024 this was an idea pinned to the geography and history of the French capital. Great Britain flagbearers Lucy Shuker and Terry Bywater with the athletes as ParalympicsGB arrive for the opening ceremony. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian The ceremony began in the “wide open” fashion, in public, with Paralympic delegations passing down a section of the sun-drenched Champs-Élysées and a collection of Unesco executives, rappers and Jackie Chan joining them as part of the torch relay. What Parisians describe as “the greatest avenue in the world” is traditionally the place where France salutes its heroes (with a parade for the stars of the Olympics to come in September). But the Élysées did not feature in the Games earlier this summer and has been reserved for the Paralympics, where it will also feature as part of the marathon on the final day of competition. From the open streets the ceremony moved to a ticketed event at the Place de la Concorde. Once the Place de la Revolution, site of the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it was renamed in 1795, an act according to Paris 2024 creative director Thomas Jolly, “to appease and reconcile the French”, making the square itself a “place of paradox”. Jolly argues that the ceremony explores a further need for reconciliation: between the 15% of the global po[CENSORED]tion who have a disability and the societies that ignore their needs. “Living together better starts with mutual consideration”, he says, “then we can repair, reconcile, adapt and move forward together better.” Ironically, in the week when one of Britain’s greatest Paralympians – Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson – was forced to drag herself out of her wheelchair and off a train in London as she sought to make her way to the Games, Jolly said the ceremony would make the argument that “disability is not a flaw in the person, it is the architecture, practices, attitudes, lifestyles and models of society that create the ‘situation’ of disability for these people.” Broken into five acts, the ceremonies performances were directed by the Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman, brought on board by Jolly to bring energy and humour to proceedings. This was a decision immediately vindicated. The introductory segment saw French swimmer and model Théo Curin, who has neither hands nor feet, assembling a taxi of Phrages, a furry red private hire vehicle he takes to the arena to deliver his one line: “Welcome to Paris!” (He does so with aplomb). From there the spectacle exploded into life in a whirl of dancers and stirring music. The performances included Christine and the Queens delivering an updated and almost unrecognisable Je Ne Regrette Rien and a performance of Ravel’s Bolero so robust and powerful it consigned all memories of Torvill and Dean to the bin. The performers were a mixture of disabled and non-disabled, sometimes dancing in opposition (discord) but ultimately coming together (concord) in a piece called Sportography which incorporated sporting movement and artistic expression alongside wild visuals projected on to the obelisk at the heart of the square. All of this performance was carried by the incredible talent of South African amputee dancer Musa Motha. After three and a half hours of spectacle and speeches, the last act was to once again light the Olympic cauldron and send the bronzed balloon into the Paris night sky. According to Ekman: “I often find that words are worthless and that images, or the situations they illustrate, are much more valuable.” On a night like this, it was difficult to argue he was wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/28/paris-paralympics-make-powerful-start-in-journey-from-discord-to-concord

The open-topped Peak Sightseer buses take in many of the area’s attractions. Photograph: PR Image Aperegrine falcon is flying high over the gothic tower of the cathedral while elegant grey wagtails hop across the curving weir among flocks of gulls and geese. Is this really the worst city in the UK? Derby recently came bottom in a Which? poll of big UK cities for a short break. I’m only passing through on my way to the Peak District, but I plan to stop over on my way back. It’s certainly a useful hub for reaching the Peaks by bus or train. Derbyshire has good public transport, a new unlimited bus ticket (£33 a week), and a growing number of local visitor attractions with incentives for car-free visitors. I’m hoping to put all these to the test during a week’s exploring. Derby bus station is a 20-minute riverside stroll from the railway station under shady lime trees. I catch the Transpeak bus through Matlock and Bakewell to Ashford in the Water. On the 90-minute journey we pass yellow fields of buttercups, grazing sheep and steep green dales, all stitched together by miles of dry-stone wall. I’m travelling by bus as much for the top-deck views as the destinations themselves. On the 90-minute journey we pass yellow fields of buttercups, grazing sheep and steep green dales, all stitched together by miles of dry-stone wall Approaching Ashford, we roll past the medieval Sheepwash Bridge, with the sunlit River Wye rippling through three low stone arches. When I return to the bridge on foot that evening, I see tufted ducks diving, and stippled brown trout swimming through the shadows. Nearby, villagers are taking down the decorative petals, seeds and leaves from this year’s well dressings. I’m staying in the revamped Ashford Arms, which reopened a few months ago after a four-year closure and £1.6m refurbishment. It has a big beer garden and striking new decor: dark beams, ochre walls, watercolour landscapes and, in my room, a claw-footed freestanding bathtub (doubles from £90, B&B). Best of all, it’s opposite the bus stop, where services include one of the Peak District’s open-air sightseeing buses (day tickets £9.50/£5.50 concessions). Trailing honeysuckle, wet elderflowers, mock orange blossom, fresh-cut hay: the passing countryside is full of summer smells next morning – one of many great things about open-topped buses. Swallows slice delicately through the air nearby. At Chatsworth, where I’m heading, car-free visitors get a free guidebook to the painted hall and richly panelled oak room, the gilded great stairs and tapestried bedchamber. The driver tells me to take the Blue route tomorrow – ‘worth it for the view from Winnats Pass alone’. Photograph: George W Johnson/Getty Images My favourite parts of the 105-acre (42-hectare) gardens are the wilder sections, where the trout stream runs through banks of orchids and pale starry camassia and a long coal tunnel leads under the hill to emerge in the rockery. As I get back on the Red route bus, the driver tells me to take the Blue route tomorrow (“worth it for the view from Winnats Pass alone”) and not to miss the chunky chips in the Ye Olde Nags Head in Castleton. So next morning the other open-topper carries me through a roll call of iconic UK hiking places: Mam Tor, Stanage Edge, Hope Valley. When I step off at the Longshaw Estate, I spy a deer standing in the woods, staring. I walk past twisted mossy trees and purple rhododendrons. Green-walled lanes lead down through foxgloves and forget-me-nots, and rocky steps climb back up by the waterfalls of Padley Gorge to reach wide views across the moors (free). I’m reading Ethel (Vertebrate, 2024), Helen Mort’s new biography of Sheffield-based countryside campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite, who raised money to buy the Longshaw Estate in 1928 and save it from development. A 1930s pamphlet, reproduced in the book, shows Longshaw with the caption “Saved for the Nation”. The second half of the book is Haythornthwaite’s long-form poem The Pride of the Peak, her celebration of place and season, which becomes my guidebook for the afternoon. Padley Gorge can be reached by bus, stopping at the Longshaw Estate. Photograph: SuxxesPhoto/Alamy Castleton, in the poem, is a “little limestone town aside the hills / … Where white spurs jut and strange enchantment fills / The heart delighting…” The area is peppered with visitable caves and “rare blue veins in arches cavernous”. You can buy jewellery made from Blue John, a mineral unique to this area, in the town’s shops. The bus route ends near Blue John cavern (£19/£13) winding slowly up through “huge hills of green”, chalky turrets and towering silences. Next morning, I stop off at Haddon Hall (£26/£24, under-15s free) to walk through its airy Tudor gallery and gardens full of irises, peonies and cascading scented roses. Arriving by bus, which is easy, gets you 20% off entry. With flowery gardens clustering around its old grey walls, Haddon Hall is a great contrast with the epic scale of Chatsworth. There’s a smell of meadowsweet as I cross the bridge into the grounds from meadows rich in yellow rattle, ragged robin, clover and cranesbill to a restaurant in an old stable block. My Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket is valid right across the county on almost any bus except the open-toppers and I decide to spend my last day or two exploring the less-crowded towns and villages of south Derbyshire. Besides the buses, there’s a train from Matlock, which takes half an hour to Derby along the little Derwent Valley Line, crossing and recrossing the winding river (£8.10 day return, eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk). It passes Cromford Mills, where Richard Arkwright created the first water-powered cotton mills in 1771. Derwent valley is packed with attractions – cable cars, children’s farms, theme parks – several with rewards for car-free visitors But I catch bus 6.1 from Haddon Hall back through the well-connected Derwent valley. This area is packed with classic attractions – cable cars, children’s farms, theme parks, several with rewards for car-free visitors. White Peak distillery in Ambergate offers a free hot drink; there’s discounted entry to the Heights of Abraham in Matlock or Crich Tramway Village; and 10% off in the café at Cromford Mills. Stopping at hilly Wirksworth for lunch, I visit St Mary’s church and find T’owd Man, a medieval carving of a lead worker with his pick and kibble (basket). In the nearby Heritage Centre (£5, £1 for accompanying children) there are tools and stories from the local lead-mining industry, and some reading glasses that belonged to George Eliot’s aunt. From Wirksworth it’s 50 minutes further to Derby for my last night. The Museum of Making, in Derby This city, with quiet shopping streets and crumbling infrastructure, does not have a great reputation as a tourist spot. But I always find it a friendly, affordable base for visiting the Derbyshire countryside, with sundry charms of its own. Last summer, I visited the new Museum of Making (free), walked along the river to Darley Park, with its candyfloss-huge summer hydrangeas, and caught a bus to Spondon for a stroll through fields and an ice-cream at the Bluebell Dairy. This year I take a solar-powered electric boat trip up the Derwent looking for kingfishers (£8/£6) and stroll over the bridge to the Exeter Arms for a perfect garlicky slice of Homity Pie and a pint or two of the Dancing Duck brewery’s moreish pale ale. From the top floor bar of Derby’s riverside Holiday Inn (doubles from £80 room-only ), next to the bus station, there’s a sunset view. I can see distant wooded hills beyond the tall cathedral, where peregrine falcons nested again this summer. Bus 114 to Kedleston Hall (£18/£9) next morning leaves from nearby, takes 25 minutes and arriving by bus earns me a free cup of tea. The path from the bus stop brings views of the Palladian bridge and long lake. Kedleston has miles of birdsong-filled woods, and the house, designed by Robert Adam, includes a columned marble hall and Blue John vases. Back in Derby, there’s just an hour or so before my train leaves. I have a drink at Electric Daisy, a flowery new beer garden and event space. Its creator Jamie Quince-Starkey is watering wooden tubs of fruit and flowers as I arrive. He talks about creating urban spaces that strengthen our relationship with nature. “The Derwent connects Derby with the Peaks,” says Jamie, discussing bold plans to make Derby “the ecotourism focal point of the whole country. The idea doesn’t feel so far-fetched from my perch under a sunny arch of clematis among raised beds of strawberries and rhubarb, fragrant fennel and lemon balm. As I walk back towards the station, there are wagtails hopping by the river again, and a warbler is singing in the trees. Accommodation was provided by the Ashford Arms and Holiday Inn Derby Riverlights. Travel was provided by East Midlands Railways, Stagecoach and Derbyshire County Council. More information from Visit Peak District & Derbyshire and Visit Derby. This article was amended on 28 August 2024. An earlier caption on the first picture said that the Peak District and Chatsworth House were easily reached from Derby on the Peak Sightseer bus. In fact Transpeak runs hourly from Derby, which would connect to the Peak Sightseer in Bakewell. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/aug/28/derby-uk-short-break-destination-buses

Beavers have appeared in rivers across Devon and spread through Somerset to Wiltshire and Gloucestershire despite no official releases of the animal. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA “Beaver bombing”, covertly releasing beavers into the countryside, is increasing in England because successive governments have not fulfilled promises to permit some planned wild releases, conservationists are warning. Beavers now live freely on river systems across swaths of southern England, and conservationists are calling on Labour to allow official releases of free-living beavers and produce a national strategy to maximise the biodiversity and flood alleviation benefits delivered by the industrious mammals. Eva Bishop, of the Beaver Trust, said: “Beavers are a native species with lots to offer in terms of landscape resilience, boosting biodiversity and climate change adaptation and mitigation. It would be crazy not to look at wild release as a key tool for the government.” According to Bishop, the failure of recent Conservative governments to approve or even reject wild releases, or clearly signal what is required in terms of funding, has led to unauthorised releases that could jeopardise the 69% public support for their wild release. Numerous scientific studies in Britain have shown beavers help restore water quality, wetland biodiversity and can ameliorate drought and flooding. Beaver numbers are increasing in Scotland and are legally protected in England since being formally recognised again as native mammals in 2022. Animals unofficially released on the River Otter in Devon in the early 2000s successfully bred and spread but recent administrations backtracked on Boris Johnson government’s promise to allow free-living beavers to be released in certain locations. Despite no official releases, beavers have turned up on river systems across Devon and spread through Somerset to Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. An established po[CENSORED]tion has been living freely and largely unnoticed in lowland Kent for years and now numbers 51 territories – more than 200 animals. There are also more than 30 large fenced enclosures where beavers have been reintroduced into England under official schemes. Conservationists say these po[CENSORED]tions will soon outgrow the enclosures, leading to animal welfare concerns because territorial beavers will fight to the death. Bishop said: “It’s in everyone’s interests – landowners and farmers as well as conservationists – to get a clear policy now. A potential consequence of inaction is a growing number of unlicensed releases into the wild which could alienate stakeholders and jeopardise the success of future wild releases. “It’s really important releases are done responsibly, under licence and to a strategy – then we can maximise the benefits that beavers bring through their damming and habitat modification.” Three proposals to introduce free-living beavers – in Cornwall, Dorset and on the Isle of Wight – are well advanced but the application process is so onerous that a pre-application assessment of the impacts of returning beavers to the Isle of Wight is 100,000-words long. Debbie Tann, the chief executive of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said: “We’ve got beavers living wild quite happily and quietly [across southern England] and yet to get a licence to release a native animal back into its natural habitat we’ve got to do this 100,000-word application to assess its impact on every single aspect of everything.” The trust has been working since 2019 on an application to release free-living beavers on to the island. Tann said: “The science of how important they are, what they do to revitalise rivers, boost biodiversity and minimise flooding are very well evidenced. We’re hoping the new government will honour previous commitments and open the application process so we can just get on with it.” She added: “This isn’t about beavers per se. It’s about the restoration of ecosystem function and resilience in terms of drought and flood management, biodiversity recovery and soil health. This will tick loads of different boxes, and there are tourism benefits too and getting the public excited about this idea of nature restoration.” Conservationists said that they had been told privately that Steve Reed, the environment secretary, will consider applications for free-living beavers in certain locations. They hope that approval could be a flagship nature restoration policy for the government’s first months. Key to the scale of future wild releases is how long the government says each release project must be self-funded. Crucially, it is still unclear if there will be any central government cash to pay for future beaver management. Occasionally if beaver dams cause flooding on valuable farmland, then secret pipes known as “beaver deceivers” may have to be installed to allow water through the dams or beavers may need to be relocated. There has been widespread concern from farmers and landowners that beavers could cause unwelcome floods if they are released on lowland rivers surrounding low-lying land but the wild beaver po[CENSORED]tion in lowland Kent are not building dams because the waterways are deep enough for them to feel secure. Derek Gow, of Keep It Wild Trust and an expert in captive breeding animals for wild release, said: “The beaver is nature’s healer of the earth but its wild release has been held back by [former environment secretary] Thérèse Coffey and the National Farmers’ Union. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be doing this right now. I don’t know whether Labour are on this, they’ve not made any statements about what they’re going to do about nature restoration other than windy ones.” A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “This government supports species reintroductions where there are clear benefits for nature, people and the environment.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/28/conservationists-warn-unauthorised-releases-beavers-english-rivers

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will be on a campaign tour of Georgia when they speak to CNN [Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP] Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will sit down with CNN on Thursday in their first formal interview of the United States election campaign. Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the White House after he dropped out of the race in July. CNN anchor and chief political correspondent Dana Bash will conduct the interview from the battleground state of Georgia, CNN said. It will air at 9pm (01:00 GMT on Friday). “This is the first time she’s going to take questions in a concerted effort like this, in an interview format, since Joe Biden upended this entire race six weeks ago,” CNN Political Director David Chalian said in an interview on the channel. While Harris has occasionally taken questions from journalists on foreign and economic policies on the campaign trail, she has yet to do a one-on-one media interview or hold a formal news conference, prompting attacks from rival Donald Trump and his Republican Party. On Tuesday, Trump’s campaign reacted to the interview announcement by noting that Harris would be doing the interview with Walz. “She’s not competent enough to do it on her own,” the campaign claimed. Trump has held news conferences and done media interviews in recent weeks but they have mostly focused on criticising the Biden administration’s record instead of detailing his own policy proposals. Harris laid out some broad policy agendas at the Democratic National Convention last week, promising a middle-class tax cut at home and a muscular foreign policy of standing up to Russia and North Korea while backing a ceasefire in Gaza and a two-state solution in the Middle East. During her more than three years as vice president, Harris has done on-camera and print interviews with The Associated Press news agency and many other outlets, often at a pace more frequent than Biden. Harris travels with members of the media on Air Force Two for all trips and nearly always comes to the back of the plane to speak to reporters for a few minutes before takeoff. Her office insists that those conversations are off the record, though, so what she says cannot be shared publicly. The CNN interview will be recorded during a campaign bus tour by the Democratic candidates. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/28/harris-and-walz-to-sit-down-with-cnn-for-first-formal-interview-of-campaign

Mourners grieve at the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on Nur Shams near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 27, 2024 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters] Hundreds of Israeli soldiers are conducting a major assault in the occupied West Bank in Jenin, Tulkarem and the Far’a refugee camp near Tubas. Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians in what is said to be Israel’s largest assault there in 20 years as they claimed they are targeting “armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces”. The Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency condemned Israel’s assault and warned it could usher in “dire and dangerous” results. PA President Mahmoud Abbas returned early from a visit to Saudi Arabia. Israeli assaults on refugee camps and towns in the West Bank are a near-daily occurrence and have intensified since October 7. The scale of the current attack raises questions about its timing and motives. October 7 is the date when Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which killed 1,139 people in southern Israel and saw about 240 taken captive. Since then, Israel has killed at least 40,534 people and wounded another 93,778 in Gaza. It has killed 662 Palestinians and injured about 5,400 in the West Bank during that same period. Pinning the resistance on Iran In the West Bank, new Palestinian movements have arisen, affiliated with established ones but developing their own strategies against the Israeli occupation after losing patience with the status quo. On August 19, a suicide attack in Tel Aviv claimed by Hamas seemed to raise concerns in the Israeli security establishment. “This was a signal that Palestinian groups in the West Bank in clandestine cells are moving toward more offensive action,” Ramallah-based political analyst Abdaljawad Omar said. He added that the PA “is slowly losing hold over social classes, particularly in the north of the West Bank, coupled with the rise of a new generation of Palestinians that are taking the struggle up on their own terms”. This may have led Israeli forces to feel the need for “a more proactive offensive strategy”, Omar said. “Now there is an invasion and offensive action, including arrests, and to reach dense urban areas in the north of the West Bank.” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the assault is “to dismantle Iranian Islamic terror infrastructures” in the areas under attack. “[Katz] is … not to be taken seriously at all,” political analyst Ori Goldberg told Al Jazeera. “The great thing about [connecting these groups to] the Iran threat is it lets Israel off all hooks.” Omar dismissed the idea of links between groups in the West Bank and Iran as peripheral at best. “There are elements of logistical support [for these groups] coming from outside of Palestine,” Omar said, but there are “a lot of indigenous factors behind the rise of these movements”. Palestinian women stand near the site of a drone strike in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 27, 2024 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters] Why now and who for? The recent assault comes as things calm down on another front for Israel. On Sunday, Israel hit Hezbollah in what it declared a preemptive strike while Hezbollah said it had launched 340 rockets at 11 Israeli military bases. The two have traded attacks regularly across the Lebanon-Israel border since October 8, which have led to the evacuation of residents of southern Lebanon and Israeli border villages, a situation their inhabitants are growing increasingly frustrated with. The situation on the Lebanon border has calmed, according to Israel’s allies, but Israel’s war on Gaza continues, even as talks to reach a ceasefire are ongoing. Observers do not hold out much hope for them. Some analysts believe the assault in the West Bank has been spurred on by right-wing politicians who have increasing power and influence in Israeli society. Led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, this faction is pushing for Israel to go further on the West Bank in what analysts said are efforts to completely annex the land and displace Palestinians. A statement by Katz on Wednesday that Israel should displace Palestinians living in the northern West Bank just as it does regularly to the people in Gaza has raised fears further on that front. In recent months, the far right has been vocal about its desire to annex all of the West Bank as it grows stronger under the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose coalition relies on Smotrich’s and Ben-Gvir’s support. Netanyahu has faced several domestic obstacles in recent months, including widespread protests against his rule, scathing criticism from the captives’ families over his lack of action to return their loved ones and increasing frustration from displaced Israelis. Despite this growing burden and his giving the far right increasing influence, Netanyahu still holds a slight lead in national polls over his main rival for the premiership, Benny Gantz. “Netanyahu is not a madman,” Goldberg said. “He knows his constituency and his supporters. He knows most Israelis are at a loss in front of the unfolding of events over the past year, … but you will not find a single Jewish Zionist politician who has come up with an alternative political or military vision.” Israel’s continued fight on multiple fronts is likely to continue, analysts said. Ongoing ceasefire talks over Gaza have hit multiple snags, Israel continues to hit Hezbollah targets and this latest assault is an intensification in an already simmering West Bank. “There is a continuation to a genocidal logic unfolding in Gaza since October when there is no accountability and impunity is not just a likelihood or a possibility but virtually guaranteed because of the United States’s very specific role in this and to a lesser but still significant extent the EU’s role in all of this,” Elia Ayoub – a postdoctoral researcher, writer and host of the Fire These Times podcast – told Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/28/israel-launched-a-massive-assault-on-the-west-bank-why-and-why-now

Music title: جلسات بيلبورد عربية مع سانت ليفانت | Jalsat Billboard Arabia with Saint Levant Signer: Saint Levant Release date: 2024/07/10 Official YouTube link:

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The Genesis G80—the entire Genesis brand, really—owes much of its early success to what was originally called the Hyundai Genesis. Built as a Korean interpretation of a modern sports sedan, the Genesis was the start of Hyundai's determination to prove that it could build a solid luxury car. That continued into its second generation, when the Genesis planted a Korean flag at the intersection of quality and value. It also gave Hyundai the kick it needed to finally commit to breaking Genesis off into its own luxury marque. Fast-forward to today, and the G80 continues the traditions laid forth by the predecessor that gave its name to the whole business operation. Its pricing may not be as aggressive—the 2025 model starts a little more than $5000 below a Mercedes-Benz E-class—but this sedan, which just underwent a mid-cycle refresh, continues to ramp up the plushness and give buyers a strong alternative to the typical Teutonic triumvirate. What's New? There is perhaps no more predictable mid-cycle refresh than one that involves a mild rhinoplasty and an ever-growing contingent of ever-widening interior screens. And hey, what do you know, that's exactly what we're staring down in the 2025 Genesis G80—although, we'll admit we were growing tired of the G70-style cabin layout, which felt more than a half-step behind the drastically more opulent G90. But that gulf is narrowing, and the G80 is quickly closing in on its larger sibling. The G80's interior is richly appointed, especially as you wander into higher trims that introduce bits like diamond-stitched nappa leather and flashy cabin trim. The overall design is much closer now too; the G80's dual screens have merged into a 27-inch OLED behemoth that covers both gauge-display and infotainment-touchscreen duties. There's a redundant physical knob if you prefer to avoid smudges, and the whole shebang remains just as easy to use as any other Korean tech. The climate controls also receive a big update. Their position below the infotainment screen remains the same, but they're much more cleanly integrated into the dashboard now, spilling over from the upper section in a sort of waterfall design. It looks good, the touch display is easy to get used to, and switchgear fans can rejoice at the continued presence of some physical controls. Outside, changes are more limited. The G80 sports a larger grille, with some mild adjustments to the headlights, bumpers, and wheels. Sport models at the higher echelons of the lineup get a unique bumper that looks a little angrier and has more pronounced intakes to gobble up air. Powertrains, however, are untouched for 2025. The entry-level engine is a turbocharged 2.5-liter I-4 producing 300 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque. Reach a little deeper into your wallet and you can swap that out for a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 making 375 horses and 391 pound-feet. All variants utilize standard all-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic transmission. If you're wondering about the status of the Electrified G80 EV, it's on a slightly different cadence and is being treated as distinctly separate model. The E-G80 should be receiving a refresh for the 2026 model year, which we expect will include many of the same updates, in addition to a longer wheelbase. Driving the G80 Our time was spent in a single variant—the range-topping G80 Sport Prestige, which carries every single appointment possible, including some unique sporty bits such as a limited-slip differential and rear-wheel steering. It also packs a Sport+ mode that adjusts shift points, disables some of the e-nannies, and sharpens up the steering and suspension. The twin-turbo V-6 provides more than enough thrust to get up to speed; it won't blow any barn doors off, but it feels quick—a mechanically identical 2022 model posted a 4.7-second 60-mph time in our testing—and the engine soundtrack isn't half bad. Fake sound can be piped through the speakers, but thankfully, Genesis had the foresight to allow it to be fully disabled. The eight-speed automatic is a deft shifter, and even in the car's sharper modes, upshifts and downshifts never became so immediate as to feel uncomfortable. In its calmest modes, the electronically controlled suspension (which uses cameras to scan the road ahead and adjust for humps and potholes and such) kept the G80 serene. A little bit of body motion makes its way into the stiffer tunes, a good reminder that this car is about luxury first and sporting premise second. The steering is a bit too artificially heavy in its sportier modes for our tastes. The brake pedal can be set to one of two levels of responsiveness via the infotainment system, but its default mode is just fine. The sportier setting adds a lot of head bob and not much else, so, best to leave that one be. Genesis continues to nail its take on luxury. The cabin is simply delightful; the nappa leather seats are comfortable and supportive, with the massage function kicking in automatically to stimulate the driver as the runtime moves past the hour mark. Visibility is solid, sound isolation is commendable—the whole thing just feels nice. It's a fine bit of evolution for a car we already enjoyed. One thing, though: Sport models should offer cabin-trim materials that aren't aluminum or (sigh) carbon fiber. It's tired. Pack it up. Oh, yeah, and one of our favorite new additions: There's a small pass-through from the center armrest cubby that allows you to snake a phone cable through, preventing said cable from having to sprout up from the middle of the clamshell opening like a weed growing through a crack in the sidewalk. It's a small touch that keeps the overall look a little cleaner. Summing It Up It's no surprise that as the G80 pushes its way into ever-fancier territory, its price would climb as well. Prices are up between $2700 and $4400 for 2025. A base 2.5T now sets you back $58,350. If you want fancier trim, larger wheels, a panoramic roof, and a Bang & Olufsen audio system, move up to the $63,150 2.5T Advanced. The 2.5T Sport Prestige adds an electronically controlled suspension, a wireless device charger, a host of driver-assist tech, and power-closing doors for $69,600. And then we finally reach the 3.5T models. The cheapest V-6 model is the $70,850 Sport Advanced, which gets the aforementioned niceties minus a couple of the driver assists and the power-closing doors. At the top of the lineup is the $78,250 Sport Prestige we drove, which has everything but the kitchen sink—the nappa leather, rear limited-slip differential, and rear-wheel steering, plus a heated armrest and that special Sport+ mode. Sporting pretensions aside—since it almost feels like everyone has to include something like that these days—the 2025 Genesis G80 continues its streak of excellence. It's a damned solid luxury car that, while it may not provide the insane value it once did, continues to make a very appealing counterpoint to all the established players out there. Then again, after nearly 20 years of existence, the G80 (née Hyundai Genesis) is becoming a stalwart in its own right. https://caranddriver.com/reviews/a61956472/2025-genesis-g80-drive/

The Eiffel Tower Stadium will host blind football at the Paralympics. ‘What made a success of the Olympics was the atmosphere,’ says Paris 2024 president, Tony Estanguet. ‘We will do exactly same thing in the Paralympic Games.’ Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA ‘A true fervour’: Organisers rally locals to get behind Paris 2024 Paralympics Exhilarating sport is guaranteed even if scepticism remains about scheduling the Games at the end of Les Vacances Paul MacInnes Paul MacInnes in Paris Tue 27 Aug 2024 20.00 BST Share Plastered on the walls of every Métro station in Paris this week are adverts boasting some boundary-pushing Franglais. Alongside images of Paralympic athletes running, leaping and wheeling is a slogan directed at residents of the French capital. It reads: “Game [is not] over”. For those unfamiliar with 1980s video arcade jargon, “game over” was the message that heralded the moment a machine ate your money. The grammatically tortuous “is not” has been overlaid by organisers of Paris 2024 to remind locals that the summer of sporting excellence will continue. The Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday night, and every Parisian is welcome. Zakia Khudadadi of the Paralympic Refugee Team Khudadadi fights for Refugee Team at Paralympics after escaping Taliban Read more After months of anxiety over low ticket sales and concerns over whether a French audience would embrace disability sport, the news in recent days has been good. More than 2m tickets have now been sold, out of 2.5m, with a number of events sold out. The Île de France regional government has announced an ambition to make the Paris Métro accessible to wheelchair users at last, one of the abiding concerns around the Games. And on Wednesday night comes an opening ceremony that will once again take place in the heart of the city and organisers say it will act as a “gigantic hug” to the 44,000 athletes competing over the following 11 days. Starting on the Champs Élysées, the opening parade will move along “the world’s most beautiful avenue” before a more traditional ceremony takes place in the open air at the Place de la Concorde. Continuing Paris’s key theme of being open to everyone, organisers say they want to extend the general message of welcome and inclusion to one specific to people with disabilities. According to the president of Paris 2024, Tony Estanguet: “This ceremony at the heart of the city is a strong symbol illustrating our ambition … to position the issue of inclusion for people with disabilities at the heart of our society.” The president of the International Paralympic Committee, Andrew Parsons, promises an incredible ceremony. “I like the French expression ‘la fête continue’ and tomorrow’s opening ceremony is going to be fantastic, it’s going to be incredible, no doubt,” he said. “The concept was always that [by staging the event] in the Champs Élysées and the Place de la Concorde it’s like the city’s embracing the Paralympic athletes, the Paralympic movement. We are seeing it as a gigantic hug for our athletes and this cannot be more positive.” Estanguet emphasises that the job of engaging French and Parisian people with disability sport has been ongoing. Official estimates predict 300,000 visitors for the Games, about half the number that travelled for the Olympics. Engaging locals becomes more important as a result, especially in helping to fill out the 80,000-capacity Stade de France, which will once again play host to the track and field programme. An uptick in ticket sales means organisers are now working to create extra space at the Eiffel Tower arena and the Château de Versailles, with events at seven locations now sold out. Carine Hall and Lora Fachi of ParalympicsGB during a training session at the velodrome. The team are aiming to match or surpass Tokyo’s 124 medals. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images “What made a success of the Olympics was the atmosphere,” Estanguet said. “The fans sang the Marseillaise more than ever before and this is the fruit of work we did to have a square at each venue which held very proactive supporters. We found it worked very well and we will do exactly same thing in the Paralympic Games.” Some local scepticism remains, particularly with the Games coinciding with the end of Les Vacances and the return to school. But Estanguet says the scheduling is deliberate. “We decided on purpose to position the games during back to school in France because we want to take advantage of the opportunities it offers,” he said. “Back to school is a good time to send messages to students, to show inclusion and accessibility, to provide an opportunity for education. “I believe French people are going to be able to make a difference, to make these Paralympics their own. We went beyond what we dreamed of with the Olympics, creating a true fervour, and I believe it’s going to be the case with the Paralympics as well.” Jonnie Peacock in the 100m at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games ‘I’m not the hunted, I’m the hunter’: Peacock lays down challenge Read more Another reason for optimism is that exhilarating elite sport is guaranteed. New fans will be introduced to compelling events unique to disability sport, the pace and aggression of wheelchair rugby and the precision and strategy of boccia, for example. They will also come to the various arenas at a time when performance in parasport is improving almost exponentially. There will be a record number of countries in competition, 182, and as Parsons put it, “world records are going to be smashed”. ParalympicsGB hope to match the a towering performance in Tokyo three years ago. Finishing second in the medal table and winning 124 medals overall, it was one of the best British performances at a Paralympics, especially given the challenges of Covid. With a target of 100 to 140 medals this time, and with 215 athletes and guides in the team, ParalympicsGB will be intent on maintaining the record of never finishing outside the top five nations. On Tuesday, Terry Bywater and Lucy Shukur were announced as the British flag bearers for the opening ceremony. Shukur, a wheelchair tennis athlete, will be competing at her fifth Games, while Terry Bywater will be adding to six previous appearances in wheelchair basketball. “I feel quite emotional,” said Bywater. “This is my seventh Games, I actually wear the No 7 vest too – so this is all a bit crazy right now. I’m just super-, super-proud. “This is not just about me, this is for the 215 athletes that are here, all the staff, my family, my wife, my son, my family that have passed away that always followed me – I’ll be doing it for everyone.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/27/paralympics-2024-paris-opening-ceremony

Noel and Liam Gallagher in 2008. Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA For most of the 1990s and 2000s, the Gallagher brothers clashed on stage and traded high-profile insults in newspaper interviews and on social media. So rumours of an Oasis reunion tour in 2025 have prompted furious speculation about how the pair repaired a rift that for decades appeared intractable. Family therapists told the Guardian that although sibling rifts are common and often reparable, reunions like the Gallaghers’ only succeed if both warring parties are ready to bury the hatchet. Janet Reibstein, a family therapist, emeritus professor at Exeter University and author of Good Relations: Cracking the Code of How to Get On Better, said such reconciliation events could “become explosive” if both sides aren’t ready, and people must enter into them aiming for a collaborative peace-making process, not a battleground. “It isn’t usually a one-step heal but gingerly going forward,” she said, adding that reunions “can often be healing episodes in themselves, because people can have the experience of having been in an anodyne situation where you can not have anger around and often you can see each other again anew”. Reibstein said family rifts were common because family is the “cauldron of most intense emotions”, with sibling relationships particularly “intense and problematic and rewarding”. “The sibling has at its heart a dilemma, a sort of bipolar bit to it: you feel loyal and identified with each other, you’ve been through the same things, but at the same time you’re competing for the limited resources any family has – physical space, food, but particularly for the attention, admiration, care of the most important people to you, which are your parents,” she said. She said transition points such as such as marriage or career achievements could be “potentially fragile times”, highlighting “who was first, who gets what”. Reibstein said conflicts often take time to resolve, and the first step is processing and validating feelings of anger, which are “always a kind of defence against some sense of hurt or injustice”. “The rifts can’t be healed until the pain is addressed,” she said, adding that once hurt feelings are validated, anger often dissipates since there is a feeling that justice has been done. Often it can take a third party to recognise the underlying issue, point out that there are other perspectives and encourage the person to reflect on the role they may have played in driving the conflict. “Anger is blinding, hurt is blinding, you can’t really see the other person’s side until you can get rid of those two things. That’s why it often takes somebody outside to go ‘how about this perspective?’ – take the blinders off and you can see,” Reibstein said. This is usually a therapist but it can be a trusted friend or relative who can reflect on what may be happening on both sides while also acknowledging and validating the feelings. Reibstein said one misconception that fuels much conflict is that people deliberately set out to hurt. “Often it doesn’t start out with malevolent intention, it’s misunderstandings,” she said. Dr Anu Sayal-Bennett, a consultant clinical psychologist at the London Child and Family Therapy Centre, said siblings could be “competitive, jealous and angry”, and this was often linked to childhood where they are affected by parental preference, and their approval or disapproval. “There may be transgenerational patterns of communication which are characterised by estrangement and distancing. Sometimes this is protective: a person may feel hurt and wounded and need to retreat. They may not have the words to express their emotional pain,” she said. As a result, some individuals are able to reconnect after a long separation as though nothing happened in the interim. Other relationships may play out as a “continuous cycle of reconnection and separation”. She said family therapy could often provide an important space to work through difficult feelings. “Separations and feeling stuck can be very painful. We need to be compassionate and nonjudgmental to all those who experience or have experienced family rifts.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/27/anger-is-blinding-family-therapists-on-how-to-resolve-sibling-feuds

A humpback whale breaching among icebergs at Ilulissat Icefjord, a Unesco world heritage site, in Greenland. Photograph: Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images Peter Bridgewater has a clear message for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that he once led. The organisation – which played a critical role in ending whale hunting in the 1980s – has become a zombie institution that should vote to disband itself at its meeting next month. “The commission did great work, but that was last century,” Bridgewater told the Observer last week. “Today it has – like so many other international conventions or organisations – outlived its useful life and should be quietly disbanded.” This point was stressed by Bridgewater – who chaired the IWC from 1994 to 1997 – in a comment article published in Nature last week and which was written with several other conservationists including Rakhyun Kim, of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and Robert Blasiak of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Norwegian whalers at a whaling station in South Georgia in 1932. Photograph: Liborio Justo/Getty Images “The IWC will hold its 69th meeting in Lima in September,” they state in their article. “We propose that it hands over several pending issues to other conventions and national governments and then closes up shop.” It is an extraordinarily robust demand. Nevertheless, the group states that such a move is urgently needed – to set an example over the futures of the thousands of other international environmental organisations that exist today. Many of these bodies have had little impact collectively, but expend millions of dollars annually on secretariats and meeting and use up time and resources from governments, state Bridgewater and his colleagues. Examples include the Montreal ­protocol, which monitors ozone depletion. Its residual tasks could easily be carried out by other UN bodies, they say. “Proud legacies and historical achievements are important, but allowing institutions to become zombies serves no one,” say Bridgewater and colleagues. The International Whaling Commission was originally set up to “provide for the proper development of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry”. However, as environmental concerns grew and numbers of the great whales – including the gray, humpback, right, sperm, bowhead and minke whales – plummeted as their slaughter, in their tens of thousands a year, was allowed to continue, the commission decided in 1982 that all commercial whaling should cease by the 1985-6 season. Those accomplishments are laudable but lie four decades in the past, say the group. “IWC meetings since have been a source of acrimonious and fruitless dialogue among member nations. By exiting with dignity, the IWC would set a powerful example for the international environmental community.” A minke whale. Photograph: Kerstin Meyer/Getty Images Studies of whale po[CENSORED]tions make it clear that virtually all species are now increasing. Humpback numbers have risen sharply, along with blue and minke whales. The main exception is the North Atlantic right whale, which has suffered badly from vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. However, the rest of the world’s whales are doing well, said Bridgewater. “Species numbers have bounced back since the moratorium to varying degrees levels. And that is the point of our message to the IWC: ‘You have done your job. It’s been really good work. You have got a result. Now it is time to hang up things and go with dignity.’” Only three countries currently carry out whaling: Norway, Iceland and Japan. “These involve just a small number of catches,” added Bridgewater. “Crucially, the IWC has made no impact in halting whaling by these nations.” A fishing net on the tail of a whale The kindest cut: the Australians fighting to save humpback whales tangled in fishing nets Read more Instead, the commission’s work could easily be handled by the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), it is argued. As the group points out, whaling is not the main threat to whales today. “These are ship strikes, pollution and climate change.” In response to the article in Nature, a spokesman for the IWC last week defended the commission and pointed out that it had evolved to address a range of important cetacean science, conservation and management issues since its creation. “These include – but are not limited to – entanglement and bycatch in fishing gear (which is the biggest threat, estimated to kill more than 300,000 cetaceans every year), collisions with vessels, strandings, marine debris, and of course the world-leading and wide-ranging programme of the IWC Scientific Committee, which includes assessments of whale po[CENSORED]tions around the world.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/25/whales-are-doing-well-so-its-time-to-scrap-the-body-that-once-protected-them-says-former-head

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Guard Association on August 26 in Detroit [Paul Sancya/AP Photo] Federal prosecutors accusing former United States President Donald Trump of election interference have released a newly revised indictment, in response to a recent Supreme Court ruling. Tuesday’s indictment narrows the focus of the case, trimming away interactions Trump had with the Department of Justice. Still, the central charge remains the same: that Trump attempted to subvert the 2020 presidential election and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. He has long claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud has marred the 2020 race. The reworked case, unfolding in Washington, DC, is one of four indictments Trump faces. He is the first US president to face and be convicted of criminal charges. Only one of the four cases, however, has culminated in a conviction: In May, Trump was found guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records in New York. And even that verdict has been thrown into potential legal limbo by a recent Supreme Court decision granting broad immunity to presidential actions. On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Trump v United States that all “official” presidential acts are entitled to “presumptive immunity” against prosecution. What counts as “official” acts, the court explained, goes beyond what falls within a president’s constitutional authority, marking a significant widening of executive power. The court’s decision made explicit reference to the events of January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College vote. Referring to the Washington, DC, indictment, the court’s majority pointed to an example where Trump was accused of “attempting to enlist the Vice President” to “alter the election results”. Since interacting with a vice president is part of a president’s official duties, the court explained, “Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct”. The Supreme Court currently has a conservative supermajority, with three of the judges appointed by Trump himself. The decision was issued along ideological lines, with the three left-leaning justices dissenting. The court’s decision had an immediate impact on the Washington case, as well as the other indictments against Trump. Tuesday’s revised indictment shows how federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith, intend to react to the ruling. The indictment has been slimmed down from 45 pages to 36, removing the references the Supreme Court singled out in its July decision. It also emphasises that the interactions detailed in the new version were with people who lie outside of the president’s official orbit. In naming Trump’s co-conspirators, for instance, the revised indictment explains none “were government officials during the conspiracies and all of whom were acting in a private capacity”. However, the central charges remain identical to the first version of the indictment: that Trump entered into a conspiracy to defraud the United States; to obstruct and impede an official proceeding; and to prevent legitimate votes from being counted. Trump faces four criminal counts related to those criminal charges. “Each of these conspiracies — which build on the widespread mistrust the Defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud — targeted a bedrock function of the United States government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election,” the indictment reads. The reworked indictment triggered a flurry of reaction from Trump on his Truth Social account. “In an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt in Washington, D.C., in an act of desperation, and in order to save face, the illegally appointed “Special Counsel” Deranged Jack Smith, has brought a ridiculous new Indictment against me,” Trump wrote. He said the new version had “all the problems of the old Indictment”. He called for it to be “dismissed IMMEDIATELY”. The former Republican president is in the midst of a second re-election campaign, ahead of the November 5 presidential vote. He has repeatedly denounced the criminal charges against him as an attempt to derail his latest White House bid, an allegation he repeated again on Tuesday. “PERSECUTION OF A POLITICAL OPPONENT!” he wrote in all capital letters in a separate post. In a later missive, he referenced a 2022 decision from the Biden Justice Department that bars political appointees in the agency from participating in an election-related activities within 60 days of an upcoming vote. “It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election — but they just have taken such action,” Trump alleged, referencing the early-voting date in some states, instead of the official November 5 election day. For his part, Smith — the special counsel appointed to independently lead the Justice Department’s investigations into Trump — said that the newly revamped indictment was offered to reflect “the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions”. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to rule in the case, which is unlikely to reach trial before the November election. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the criminal charges he faces. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/27/special-counsel-jack-smith-issues-revised-indictment-in-trump-election-case

Displaced Palestinians shelter in a UN-run school in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza [Ramadan Abed/Reuters] United Nations aid operations in the besieged Gaza Strip continue a day after a senior UN official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because new Israeli evacuation orders forced the shutdown of the main UN operations centre. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Tuesday appeared to temper the remarks by the UN official, who spoke on Monday on condition of anonymity. When asked if conditions in Gaza had caused a halt to UN aid deliveries, Dujarric told reporters: “The conditions in Gaza yesterday [Monday] made it extremely, extremely difficult for us to do our work.” “We are doing what we can with what we have,” he said. “We’ve been saying from the beginning – this is aid delivery by seizing every opportunity, seizing every crack that we can fill. So every situation is assessed day by day, hour by hour.” The UN has had to evacuate its humanitarian aid hub in the Gaza Strip for a second time since the start of the war on the orders of the Israeli military, according to an official. The hub, with warehouses and accommodation for staff, had already been relocated before due to the Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza at the start of May. The new hub – with accommodation, offices and storage rooms for humanitarian – goods was set up in Deir el-Balah in the central part of the enclave, but an evacuation order on Sunday also included the new headquarters. A spokesperson for the UN emergency aid organisation OCHA said in Geneva that since Friday, evacuation orders have been issued for 19 neighbourhoods in the northern Gaza Strip and Deir el-Balah, with 15 premises in which UN and NGO staff and their families lived affected. Four UN warehouses for relief supplies, a water reservoir, a desalination plant, three wells, two smaller health facilities and a hospital were also affected. There were 29 emergency shelters for displaced people in those areas. UN safety and security chief Gilles Michaud said on Tuesday that over the weekend, the Israeli military only gave a few hours’ notice for more than 200 UN personnel to move out of offices and living spaces in Deir el-Balah. He said “the timing could hardly be worse”, with a huge polio vaccination campaign due to start shortly which requires large numbers of UN staff to enter Gaza. “The United Nations is determined to stay in Gaza,” he said in a statement. “Humanitarian aid delivery continues – a tremendous feat given that we are operating at the upper-most peripheries of tolerable risk. “Mass evacuation orders are the latest in a long list of unbearable threats to UN and humanitarian personnel.” The International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday that Israel’s new evacuation orders had forced the charity and other humanitarian groups to “halt aid operations, during what is already a dire situation for civilians”. “It’s urgent that humanitarian actors can continue their work, without threat from displacement or military operations. We urge all parties to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian access at all times,” the organisation posted on X. On October 7 last year, Hamas fighters stormed Israeli communities, killing about 1,100 people and abducting about 250 captives, according to Israeli tallies. Since then, Israel’s military has levelled swaths of the Palestinian enclave, driving nearly all of its 2.3 million people from their homes, giving rise to deadly hunger and disease and killing at least 40,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/27/un-doing-what-it-can-to-deliver-gaza-aid-amid-israeli-evacuation-orders

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