Israel bars U.N. secretary-general from entering country

Israel bars U.N. secretary-general from entering country

Israel's foreign minister said on Wednesday that he was barring U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering the country because he had not "unequivocally" condemned Iran's missile attack on Israel.

Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire residential buildings in and outside Beirut, killing at least 136 people in the past 24 hours. https://interc.pt/3zR544F

Earlier, Israel sent soldiers into southern Lebanon in a major escalation of its weeks-long campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, increasing the risk of a wider Middle East conflict.

The US says that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Says Iran Preparing to Attack Israel With Ballistic Missiles

The US has indications that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel, according to a senior White House official.

Today, the UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power Since opening world's 1st coal plant in 1882, UK coal fleet burned through 4.6bn tonnes of coal, emitting 10.4GtCO2 – more than most countries have ever released Here's how it all ended: interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...

Orla Gurein reports there are already 1000 dead in Lebanon. It took a month to get to that number of casualties in the 2006 war.

A tenner says Johnson concocted this lunatic plan purely to put it in his memoirs.

I knew Open AI had high running costs because of the computing power required to run ChatGPT, but I didn’t expect the costs to be quite that high. Wow. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/t...

Fear my Saturday will now be almost entirely consumed by watching clips of Maggie Smith.

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