Day News Recap: Gaza, Ukraine and Africa conflicts dominate as markets stay mixed
Israeli airstrikes and West Bank violence dominated the day, with a strike on an apartment building in Gaza City's Rimal neighbourhood killing five Palestinians, while the World Health Organization warned that repeated delays in getting medicines, prosthetics and other supplies into Gaza could have devastating consequences. π πIn the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters and journalists at several locations, and residents of Ras al-Ahmar said a new barrier had cut off water, animal feed, healthcare access and movement for their Bedouin community. π πIsrael's Supreme Court overturned a ban on the country's two main Arab-majority political... [Continue Reading]
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French defence files may advance Italy's Ustica crash investigation
French authorities' decision to share defence documents with the Italian judiciary has reopened attention on one of Italy's longest-running aviation mysteries. The move has raised hopes of a possible breakthrough in the investigation into the 1980 crash of Itavia Flight 870 near the island of Ustica, although sceptics say the material may still fall short of identifying what happened. Prosecutors in Italy had been preparing to shelve the latest inquiry before the new development prompted them to keep it open.The aircraft, a DC-9 operated by the now-defunct Itavia carrier, was flying from Bologna to Palermo on 27 June 1980 when... [Continue Reading]

