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White House on Friday condemned Elon Musk's endorsement of what it called a «hideous» antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, while major U.S. companies including Walt Disney Co, Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal parent Comcast paused their advertisements on his social media site. Musk on Wednesday agreed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the «Great Replacement» conspiracy theory was speaking «the actual truth.» That conspiracy theory holds that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a «white genocide.» The White House accused Musk of an «abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate» that «runs against our core values as Americans.» «It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie… one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,» White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, referring to the Oct.

Hamas on Israel, social media platforms are still caught in the maelstrom, struggling to control content and withstand user fury. TikTok and X, formerly Twitter, were swept up in controversies this week, one involving an unearthing of a two-decade old screed by Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is also facing pushback from users accusing the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg of over-censorship of pro-Palestinian content. The problems have cast a harsh light on content moderation policies at the big platforms after a big cost-cutting campaign last year saw trust and safety teams gutted. For TikTok, the risks are real as it faces a threat to be outright banned in the United States, under suspicion that its powerful algorithm is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. Those calls were renewed when it emerged on Thursday that videos promoting bin Laden's «Letter to America» went viral, 22 years after he wrote it. Bin Laden's deeply anti-American writing explained his reasons for masterminding plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. Searches for the letter were eventually banned by TikTok which minimized the reach of the videos.

They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors.

United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. Israel announced that it will allow for the first time two tanker trucks of fuel daily into Gaza for the U.N. and communications systems.

AP reported. Here are the top ten updates on the Israel-Gaza War. Also Read: Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates 1.

Narendra Modi on Friday condemned the civilian killings in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as he spoke about 'new challenges' in west Asia and emphasised on dialogue and diplomacy. «We have emphasised on dialogue and diplomacy. We also condemn the deaths of civilians in the conflict between Israel and Hamas,» Modi said in his opening address of the second virtual Voice of Global South Summit on Friday. Modi spoke on achievements of the G20 presidency, including progress on several initiatives unveiled at the first south summit in January.

Narendra Modi on Friday made plain his views on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, stating India strongly condemns civilian deaths arising from the devastating war. Speaking at the second edition of the Voice of Global South Summit in New Delhi, which saw leaders of Mauritius, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Kyrgyzstan, among others, in attendance, Modi said: “India has condemned the heinous terror attacks in Israel on 7 October. We have urged restraint along with dialogue and diplomacy.

awards at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. Anand Patwardhan’s The World Is Family won the award for best editing in international competition while The Flickering Lights directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan bagged the IDFA award for best cinematography. Armenian filmmaker Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 1489 won the best film international competition and Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly won the best director award for his film Life Is Beautiful. The awards were declared late on Thursday. Besides international competition, the festival handed out awards under Envision Competition, a section devoted to daring cinematic approaches to documentary, short documentaries and youth documentaries among others. The jurors said The World is Family is “a vivid evocation of 100 years of history in less than 100 minutes of cinema”. The film focuses on Patwardhan’s family and their connection to leaders of the Indian independence movement. Flickering Lights portrays life in Tora, a remote village near India-Myanmar border in Manipur without electricity, mobile network, hospitals, or even a functional school, 70 years after independence.

(Reuters) -The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a «hideous» antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an «abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate» that «runs against our core values as Americans.»

Hyundai in the near future, India Managing Director Unsoo Kim said, adding, the company expects nearly a fifth of its global sales to come in from the country in the next 2-3 years. Indian subsidiary Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) — which contributed 18.6% to global sales in the first half of the year — is looking at growing by 8.5-9% to post its best-ever sales of 600,000 units in the local market in the ongoing calendar year. Unsoo Kim, Managing Director, Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) said, “I see the Indian market very positively.

Also Read: India hopeful of ‘positive outcome’: MEA on appeal to free ex-navy men in Qatar Her last hope is her mother, who is trying hard to seek approval to travel to Yemen and negotiate with the victim's family members by paying blood money. Also read: India granted second consular access to former Navy officers sentenced to death in Qatar While hearing the writ petition filed by Nimisha's mother seeking permission to travel to Yemen, the Delhi High Court was told by the centre that the Supreme Court in Yemen, on November 13, had dismissed the appeal of a Malayali nurse against the death sentence. Nimisha's mother is fighting hard to save her daughter and bring her back to India.

Gaza Strip, triggered by Hamas's cross-border attack on Oct. 7, has brought upheaval and destruction to the Palestinian territory on a scale never before seen in the enclave. Here are latest estimates from international organisations on the socio-economic impact of the conflict. Housing The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), quoting data from the Palestinian public works and housing department, said Israeli attacks had destroyed more than 41,000 housing units and damaged more than 222,000 housing units. In all, it said at least 45% of Gaza's housing units had reportedly been damaged or destroyed. It was impossible to independently verify the numbers, but Reuters reporters in Gaza say the destruction is on a huge scale.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel's attempts to minimise civilian casualties were “not successful", and he further accused Hamas of preventing civilians from moving to safer locations. As reported by Reuters, during an interview with US television's CBS News on Thursday, Netanyahu faced inquiries regarding the possibility that the actions of Israel, which have led to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, might sow seeds of animosity in a new generation. “Any civilian death is a tragedy.

Israel's invasion of Gaza has destroyed decades of work to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has set «the whole region on fire,» Jordan's foreign minister told CNN on Thursday. «Israel is not producing security for itself by the killing of innocent Palestinians,» Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said, adding, «It's putting the whole region on fire again, and it has destroyed the hard work that many had made over the decades to make sure that we come to a peaceful conclusion to this conflict.» Israel had «killed any embrace of peace in the region» and its war against Hamas had pushed regional relations back more than 30 years, Safadi also said, according to CNN. The Jordanian government had been discussing with Israel about exchanging solar power for energy but these discussions have now stopped because people «don't see any value» in dealing with Israel as its ground offensive in Gaza continues, Safadi said. He said he thought the evidence Israel had shared to back its claim that Hamas had a «command node» under the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City was «just ridiculous» and an «insult to intelligence.» He was also opposed to Israel's claim that its military operations in Gaza were self-defence. «Any other country in the world that would have done a fragment of what Israel is doing would have been under sanctions by now,» Safadi said, adding, «This is not self-defence.

Gaza's biggest hospital. Reuters could not immediately verify the video that showed a deep hole in the ground, littered with and surrounded by concrete and wood rubble and sand. The army said its troops also found a vehicle in the hospital containing a large number of weapons, according to a report published by Reuters. 1) Hamas on Thursday said claims by the Pentagon and US State Department that the group uses Al Shifa for military purposes "is a repetition of a blatantly false narrative, demonstrated by the weak and ridiculous performances of the occupation army spokesman." 2) White House spokesperson John Kirby said the United States is confident in an assessment from its own intelligence agencies on Hamas activities in Al Shifa hospital and will neither share nor elaborate on it.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on the Israel-Hamas war here,US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on Israel to take "urgent" action to stop settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel and Hamas. "With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation," Cindy McCain, executive director of the Rome-based WFP, said in a statement. The WFP has been warning of increasing hunger for weeks in Gaza.

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping held a US-China Summit on November 15. The US President and his Chinese counterpart discussed various global and bilateral issues. Here are 7 key takeaways.

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Al Shifa hospital, the main medical facility in the besieged Gaza Strip, alleging that it was partly being used by the Palestinian militant group Hamas as a hideout and for storage of weapons. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF), in its statement, claimed that the troops are acting in a “professional" manner to prevent any harm to the civilians who are present inside the medical facility. "All men 16 years and above, raise your hands," Arabic speaking Israeli soldiers shouted, as they entered into the main building, news agency AFP reported, citing a journalist present at the spot.

The United States says it has imposed a third round of sanctions on a group of Hamas officials, members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who work to transfer money from Iran to Gaza, and a Lebanese money exchange service that facilitates the transfers