🇬🇧 Is UK heading for recession? Job market sends warning sign

The UK's rising unemployment rate signals an approaching recession, as it has already surpassed its Eurozone counterparts. As the Bank of England faces challenges in managing interest rates due to wage inflation concerns, industrial actions in various sectors underscore the widespread impact of economic uncertainty.

The UK's unemployment rate of 4.3 percent signposts an impending recession, with a climb anticipated in 2024, potentially reaching or surpassing five percent.

Once a bustling job market, the UK is suffering setbacks occasioned by its economic woes, which orchestrated the departure of its erstwhile prime minister, Liz Truss, and are also threatening Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

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🇮🇱 What is the white phosphorus that Israel is accused of using in the Gaza Strip?

In course of the ongoing military escalation of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Human Rights Watch has alleged that the Israel Defense Forces have deployed munitions with white phosphorus, stating that using these munitions endangers the safety of civilians, causing severe and enduring injuries.

White phosphorus has been controversial in warfare for decades - it raises ethical and legal questions, sparking debates on its strategic advantages versus potential harm, as it inflicts horrendous tormenting burns on its victims.

Sputnik dissects the complexities of white phosphorus ammunition, exploring its composition and the multifaceted considerations surrounding its deployment on the battlefield.

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🇵🇸UNICEF believes displacement in Gaza will provoke a humanitarian crisis

💬 "If implemented, such appeals would cause an extreme complication of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, as there are approximately 1 million people in northern Gaza with nowhere to go and no safe places for them. The UN in all its branches has called for this decision to be abandoned and for humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Gaza Strip for distribution to children, families, civilians," UNICEF Communication Officer Salim Oweis told Sputnik.

All parties to the conflict under international law bear responsibility for the protection of civilians and are obliged to protect the lives and safety of children wherever they are, Oweis said.

UNICEF representatives continue to maintain presence in the Gaza Strip, but it has become increasingly difficult due to the destruction of infrastructure, he said.

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🇺🇸 The US needs stronger and more capable leadership in both the White House and Congress to address multiple crises the nation and the world are facing, including the war between Israel and Hamas, the conflict in Ukraine, and the threat of a government shutdown, experts told Sputnik.

The US House has continued to remain without a speaker since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted last week, which has delayed voting on funds to support Israel and Ukraine and avoid a government shutdown. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has made an alarming number of public gaffes in recent days and weeks, raising concerns whether the leader will be able to effectively handle an increasing number of crises.

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🇿🇦🇮🇱 South Africa condemns Israel for triggering further humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza

The country's Department of International Relations and Cooperation issued a statement condemning Israel's blockading of the Gaza Strip.

💬"[South Africa] condemns in the strongest possible terms Israel's violation of the Geneva Conventions and the abandonment of International Humanitarian Law in Gaza, by their intentional denial of food, water, electricity, and fuel to the people of Gaza," read the statement.

Against this backdrop, Pretoria urged Israel to allow vital life-saving provisions into Gaza.

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🇮🇷 Iran expressed its desire to avoid exacerbating the situation in the Hamas-Israel war but made it clear that it may need to intervene if Israel's military operation in Gaza continues, reports US media quoting diplomatic sources

The situation is of significant international concern as the conflict between Hamas and Israel holds the potential to escalate into a regional war if Iran becomes directly or indirectly involved.

The warning sent by Iran to Israel through the UN coincides with the US' efforts to deter Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah or others from entering the conflict, claims US media. The US has deployed an aircraft carrier group and fighter jets to the region to reinforce its stance.

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📹 Russia's motorized rifle and tank units are improving their skills in the use of military hardware in the rear of the special military operation

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🇮🇱 The number of Israeli soldiers killed since the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has reached 279, Israeli media reported on Saturday, citing the Israeli Defense Forces

The number of people taken hostage and held in the Gaza Strip has reached 126, the newspaper added.

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🇮🇷🇵🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian held talks with the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Qatar and discussed the situation around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as diplomatic efforts to end hostilities, regional news agency reported

Earlier this week, Amirabdollahian paid official visits to the countries of the Middle East - Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. On Friday, the Iranian minister met in Beirut with Hassan Nasrallah, chief of Lebanon's Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah.

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📹 Russian artillery destroys (0:08) (0:16) Ukrainian strongholds and fortifications on the battlefield

Fire adjustment is carried out by UAV operators.

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⚡️ Ukraine's counteroffensive has completely failed, Vladimir Putin says

Another Hamas commander killed: IDF reports

Bilal Al-Kedra was eliminated during an operation involving fighter jets. Several Palestinian Hamas and Islamic jihad fighters were also killed, according to an IDF statement.

The IDF reportedly struck Hamas operational command centers, military installations, anti-tank missile launching sites and observation posts in Zaytoun, Jabaliya and Khan Yunis. In addition, Islamic jihad operational command centers were struck.

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🗣 In certain fields of hostilities, Ukraine is preparing new active offensive operations, and Russia is responding accordingly, the president emphasized

Russian troops are improving their position in most of the area. This is an active defense with certain improvement, Putin added.

US forces allies worsen relations with Russia, China, but Europe unwilling to spoil relations with Beijing, Putin said.

Israeli army reportedly delays start of ground operation in Gaza

The Israeli army had planned to begin the ground operation this weekend, but postponed the deadline by several days due to weather conditions, an American newspaper reported, citing unnamed senior IDF officials who shared unclassified details of the plan.

The IDF was preparing to expand its offensive in the Gaza Strip to include a ground operation, Israeli media reported earlier.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on Palestinian-Israeli conflict

▪️The Palestinian Health Ministry reports 2,329 casualties, including fatalities and 9,042 injuries in the Gaza Strip.

▪️Local media claim that Hezbollah has seized an IDF base on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

▪️Hamas leader Haniyeh met with the Iranian Foreign Minister in Qatar.

▪️After an attack from Syria, Israel retaliated by targeting Aleppo International Airport, rendering it inoperable according to the Syrian Ministry of Defense.

▪️The United States has called on China to help resolve the conflict. China's proposed solution involves the creation of an independent State of Palestine and guarantees of peace with Israel.

▪️Israel has postponed its ground operation due to adverse weather conditions. Heavy rains in Tel Aviv have led to flooding in the streets.

▪️If an Israeli ground operation is carried out, Iran has issued a threat to intervene in the conflict.

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💬 'The hospital will become mass grave when generators run out of fuel'

🗣 The number of injured has exceeded the capacity of Al-Shifa medical complex, the largest in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Muhammad Salima, the director of Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, told Sputnik.

According to Dr. Muhammad Salima, in just eight days, the number of casualties and injuries has exceeded the total number of casualties in the entire 51 days of the 2014 conflict.

Salima added that more than 40 ambulances have already been affected by these unprecedented crimes.

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Today Lebanon shelled the Israeli town of Shtula. One Israeli was killed, three others were injured

The Israel Defense Forces announced that they will carry out retaliatory strikes.

Entry into the area up to 4 kilometers from the northern border with Lebanon is closed.

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❗️Thousands pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in Sydney despite threats of deportation from Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton

Earlier, Peter Dutton doubled down on calls to revoke the visas of anti-Semitic protesters, despite warnings from the head of Australia's spy agency ASIO that "inflammatory language" could inflame community tensions.

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❗️A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was deployed to prevent the US Air Force's RQ-4B "Global Hawk" drone from violating Russia's border in the Black Sea, the Russian MoD reported.

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