Paris (AFP) – A Napoleon I bicorne hat and some twenty other objects from the same collection are being exhibited in Paris ahead of their sale by the Osenat auction house on 19 November. “The hat alone represents Napoleon’s image throughout the world,” says auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat. Valued at between 600,000 and 800,000 euros, it will have a starting price of 500,000 euros, according to the president of Osenat Auctions.
Geneva (AFP) – An average of 160 children are killed each day in the besieged Gaza Strip as a result of the Israel-Hamas war. “The level of death and suffering is hard to fathom,” says WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier. The war between Israel and Hamas has entered its 32nd day. Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel has killed at least 1,400 people according to Israeli officials. The Hamas-run health ministry says retaliatory Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have since killed at least 10,000 people.
London (AFP) – Ange Postecoglou admits he does not like VAR as the Tottenham boss blasts the replay system’s influence on his side’s 4-1 defeat against Chelsea. Tottenham had Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie sent off and were denied two goals by VAR in a remarkable Premier League clash.
Seoul (AFP) – South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is on a mission no other foreigner has ever undertaken in ethnically homogenous South Korea: trying to shake up the country’s highly confrontational politics.
Tel Aviv (AFP) – “We have a long war ahead of us,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant tells members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. “It’s not a day and it’s not a week and it’s not two weeks either. It will take time.”
Darmstadt (Germany) (AFP) – A nebula resembling a horse’s head, never-before-seen distant galaxies and “circumstantial evidence” of elusive dark matter: the European Space Agency has released the first images from its Euclid space telescope, illustrating its wide-lens view of the universe. Euclid blasted off in July on the world’s first-ever mission aiming to investigate the enduring cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinians flee to the south of the Gaza Strip along the Salah Al-Din road as the war between Israel and Hamas continues to rage. The majority of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million residents have been displaced by the fighting, with around 1.5 million fleeing within the territory according to the United Nations.
Tokyo (AFP) – People hold banners and chant slogans during a march to protest over a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo set to seek a common line on Gaza, as calls mount for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. “Japan has a connection to both Israel and Palestine, and is in a better position than other countries to say ceasefire or stop the massacres, yet it does not say so properly and has effectively supported Israel”, says protester Koji Sugihara.
Paris (AFP) – “Only a ceasefire can stop the haemorrhage and save lives” in Gaza, says the head of emergency operations at Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Michel-Olivier Lacharite. Lacharite speaks as the war between Israel and Hamas has entered its 32nd day. It was triggered on 7 October when a Hamas attack on southern Israel killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials. Since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says retaliatory Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least 10,000 people, mostly women and children.
Tripoli (AFP) – Egyptian migrants are being boarded on buses to be driven back to the Egyptian border as Libya’s Tripoli-based Directorate of Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM) has started deporting about 600 undocumented Egyptian migrants. The North African country has become a hub for tens of thousands of migrants seeking to reach Europe by sea every year. According to the IOM, more than 700,000 migrants were present on Libyan territory between May and June 2023.
Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – “I don’t want fake legs,” Layan al-Baz cries in agony as the effect of her painkillers fades. The 13-year-old’s legs were amputated after she suffered injuries from an Israeli strike on the city of Khan Yunis in the besieged Gaza Strip. Layan is one of countless Palestinian children falling victim to the war between Israel and Hamas. Since Hamas’s 7 October attack, Israeli officials say more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel. In Gaza, at least 10,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by retaliatory Israeli strikes, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Tacloban (Philippines) (AFP) – A decade since Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central Philippines and left more than seven thousand people dead or missing, survivors are preparing to commemorate the disaster. Ahead of the 10th anniversary of Haiyan, AFP caught up with three people whose lives were irrevocably changed by the tragedy.
