(2024-08-03). Israel's New Assassination Campaign Could Set Middle East Further Aflame. popularresistance.org A new assassination campaign aimed at Israel's opponents has erupted across the Middle East, imperiling already shaky Gaza ceasefire talks and threatening an even greater regional expansion of war. While Israel continues its genocidal attack on desperate Gazans, killing scores, perhaps hundreds just in the last several days, the latest moves were clearly designed to escalate Israel's war in Gaza and expand the military tensions already simmering on its border with Lebanon, in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere into a full-scale war, potentially drawing in both Iran and the United States even more directly.
(2024-08-03). Edinburgh Fringe to see Isabelle Farah's comedy set in Babylon. newarab.com 
What is the correct pronunciation of "Nebuchadnezzar"? It's a conundrum that provides one of the earliest laughs in Farah landed on "neh-byuh-kuhd-nih-zaar" when she first read his name in a book. However, she tells The New Arab, "There's always someone in the audience — normally an old white man — who says, 'I think it's actually 'neh-byuh-kuhd-neh-zuh,' and you're like, why? Were you there? Did you hear it?" | It is with that defiant approach that the British-Leban…
(2024-08-03). Perspectives] Janine Mohamed: championing Indigenous health. thelancet.com For more than two decades, Janine Mohamed, a Narungga Kaurna woman, has been a champion of nursing and health policy for Indigenous communities in Australia. Named Australian Victorian of the Year 2024, Mohamed served for 5 years as Chief Executive Officer of the Lowitja Institute, a non-governmental organisation that is Australia's only national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health research institute. Throughout her career, Mohamed's experience has shown that trust and cultural safety have been key casualties in Australia's history of health-care delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Str…
(2024-08-03). Iraqi cleric Sadr urges closure of Israel embassies, boycott of its goods. presstv.ir Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Sadr calls on the Arab and Muslim countries to close Israel's embassies and ban its goods.
(2024-08-03). Xizang sets two world records in natural landscapes. ecns.cn WRCA has simultaneously recognized the "three-colored lakes" and an ice cave in Banbar County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region as one of the world's highest lakes and the world's largest double-layered ice cave on Thursday.
(2024-08-03). US scraps plea deal with three 9/11 suspects. geo.tv 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003. — Reuters US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,…
(2024-08-03). Protests turn violent UK's Sunderland after killings of three children. geo.tv 
People protesting outside Abdullah Quilliam mosque in Liverpool. — ReutersMore violence feared after misinformation on killings.Extra police, intelligence and prosecutors deployed.17-year-old boy charged with murder of three girls.
(2024-08-03). Iraq: Photography Award 2024. icrc.org International Committee of the Red Cross & Iraqi Red Crescent Society…
(2024-08-03). Iraq to release timetable for expulsion of US occupation forces. presstv.ir A senior Iraqi lawmaker and head of a top anti-terror organization says Baghdad has set a timetable for the expulsion of the US occupation forces from the Arab country.
(2024-08-03). Mayo Clinic Minute: How untreated hearing loss can result in a negative health spiral. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Hearing loss often is thought of as a normal part of aging, but recent studies have shown untreated hearing loss can significantly affect overall health. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nicholas Deep, a Mayo Clinic otolaryngologist, explains how untreated hearing loss can affect cognitive, social and physical health. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/Ge_hjOAgkew Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 07) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network."…
(2024-08-03). Beijing Declaration: China Palestine Diplomacy Trumps Again. ummid.com By hosting a historic signing of a unity agreement, Beijing Declaration, between 14 Palestinian political parties in Beijing on July 23, China has, once more, shown its ability to play a global role as a peace broker.