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Before we examine what is going on around the world, let’s take a moment to honour what happened at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
In a change from my normal practice, there are war stories above the fold, but I hope they are approaches and topics you might not have heard. Other news below, including happier news. But we begin with a relatively happy ending for a war story, from the CBC:
After a harrowing birth and evacuation, a Palestinian family is reunited in Toronto
Lane Harrison
Over the past few weeks, Ahmad Abualjedian has been in Brantford, Ont., bracing for news that his wife and daughter, who was born in the waiting room of an overflowing hospital in Gaza, had died.
After communications in the besieged territory were cut off, he couldn't get in touch with them for days at a time. His wife, Yara, gave birth in the city of Jabalia on Oct. 23, in a hospital with no electricity and without anesthetic. Now, he said, both she and the whole family are finally getting some relief.
From CBS News:
BY LI COHEN
Tatyana Tapalova's home nation of Ukraine has now been at war with Russia for nearly two years. But as a longtime resident of Gaza with her husband and their five children, Tapalova has been left with a heartwrenching choice – stay in the territory to keep her family together, or flee to an entirely new place to take care of her children as a single parent from two war-torn lands.
Tapalova and her children, including a 9-month-old baby, have been granted access to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Her husband, however, was not.
From NPR:
The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 killed some 1,400 people, according to Israeli authorities. Palestinian authorities maintain that the Israeli response has killed more than 10,000.
So it's reasonable to ask why the death of a single olive farmer has captured such attention. Numerous news outlets, including NPR, covered the killing of Bilal Saleh outside his village last month. Human rights groups and think tanks have highlighted the case.
From the Washington Post:
TALLINN, Estonia — Ukrainian and Russian officials on Friday reported reaching an agreement to bring a Ukrainian teenager taken to Russia amid the war last year back to his home country, in accordance with his wishes.
Bohdan Yermokhin, a 17-year-old whose parents passed away years ago, will be reunited with a cousin “in a third country” on his 18th birthday later this month, with a view to then return to Ukraine, Russian children’s rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said in an online statement Friday. Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets also confirmed on Friday that Yermokhin “will soon be in Ukraine.”
And from a conflict that has faded pretty completely from international news, courtesy of africanews:
Bodies of people in military uniforms litter the streets of Omdourman, on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, witnesses reported on Thursday, as the UN warned of intensifying fighting in the Darfur region in the seventh month of the war between the army and paramilitaries.
Clashes continue in Khartoum and its suburbs as well as in Darfur, in the west of the country, while a new round of negotiations sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the United States ended this week without reaching an agreement on a ceasefire.
From Agence France Presse, via The Guardian:
UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan says war between army and paramilitaries is ‘horrific’
Violence against civilians in Sudan is “verging on pure evil,” a senior UNofficial has warned, as fighting escalates seven months into the war between the army and paramilitaries.
“We keep saying that the situation is horrific and grim. But, frankly, we are running out of words to describe the horror of what is happening in Sudan,” said Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan.
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