Mark MacKinnon

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site WASHINGTON D.C. - With representatives of the Israeli government, as well as Hamas, meeting to discuss a potential U.S.-brokered peace, delegates have reportedly been surprised to find that the entire...

Entire Trump Gaza Plan just QR code linking to Nobel Peace Prize nomination site

MORE: The Kremlin is trying to prevent the United States from providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine in order to retain the sanctuary that Russia enjoys in its rear.🧵 (1/7)
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Israel at War With Itself

“‘We have lost our way. Eighty years after the Holocaust, we are talking about ethnic cleansing, Jewish supremacy, clearing Gaza City of its inhabitants,’ Moshe Yaalon told me. ‘Are these the values of the state of Israel?’”

Powerful report from Roger Cohen on the second anniversary of Oct. 7…

🤬 Over 20 explosions in 20 minutes in Kharkiv. Russians boasts that in addition to drones, it is attacking the city with ballistics.

Fearing permanent exile, displaced Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives in Egypt Separated from their homeland and unsure whether they will ever be able to return, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees rely on each other

A people without a home: My piece on the thousands of Palestinians from #Gaza trying to build a new life in #Egypt
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Czechia, 74,17% polling places counted:

National parliament election

ANO-PfE: 36.98% (+9.9)
SPOLU-ECR|EPP: 21.52% (-6.3)
STAN-EPP: 11% (n.a.)
SPD-ESN: 8.15% (-1.4)
Piráti-G/EFA: 8% (n.a.)
Auto-PfE: 7% (new)
Stačilo!-NI|S&D: 5% (n.a.)
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+/- vs. 2021 election

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Trump, ignoring Hamas and Israel's reservations, seeks to bend Gaza's reality to his will Since Trump Declared an Imminent Cease-fire Agreement, Both Netanyahu and Hamas Are Making Sure They're Not Seen as the Side That Causes the Plan to Fail. But Signing a Hostage Release Deal Would Hurt...

"As usual, Trump has declared an all-out war on facts. He describes the partial assent – with many caveats – to the cease-fire he proposed earlier this week as good news, while marching on with the hostage deal and assuming that no one will dare stop him."

Israel-Gaza live: airstrikes reported in Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing ‘immediately’ Netanyahu’s office has said that Israel is preparing for an ‘immediate implementation’ of the first stage of Trump’s Gaza plan * Full report: Donald Trump orders Israel to ‘immediately’ stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to free hostages Turkey said 36 of its citizens were expected to return home via a special flight on Saturday afternoon, after Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. “We expected 36 of our nationals on the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels seized by Israeli forces in international waters will return to our country this afternoon via a special flight,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said on X, adding that the final number has not been finalised. Continue reading...

Israel-Gaza live: airstrikes reported in Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing ‘immediately’

⚡️Russia struck a railway station in Shostka, Sumy region.

A Kyiv–Shostka train was damaged and several passengers were injured, local authorities report. Rescue workers and medics are on site.

Scoop: How an Israeli attack inadvertently launched Trump's Gaza peace plan Behind the scenes of how Trump's plan came together over three chaotic weeks.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱Scoop: How an Israeli attack inadvertently launched Trump's Gaza peace plan. @marcacaputo.bsky.social and me write for @axios.com
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Today’s front page of @theglobeandmail.com - featuring my report on life and death in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, as the frontline approaches: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Sixteen hours before Sasha Kotenko was born, his mother was pacing the floor of her hospital room, trying to ignore the air-raid siren that sounded over the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad almost as soon as she had gone into labour.

The situation – Russian drones in the sky, and the front line of the war now less than 70 kilometres away from Pavlohrad – was not exactly how Tetyana Kotenko would have planned to have her first child, but she was excited nonetheless.

If anyone knows how to get their hands on a Ukrainian-language copies of the Harry Potter series, I’m happy to be the delivery person…

Privately hoping that someone in Canada's vast Ukrainian diaspora will read about the need for Ukrainian-language Harry Potter books in at the school library in Pavlohrad, and decide to fill that gap...

Fifteen years after Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in frustration with Tunisia’s repressive system…

This Ukrainian city isn’t on the front lines yet. If that changes, everything changes Pavlohrad is bracing for the day it turns into another Mariupol or Bakhmut. The Globe went there to see how locals feel – and what hard choices they might face if the Russians come

Life, death - and just carrying on - in a Ukrainian city as the war gets closer.

A week in the life of Pavlohrad, a city bracing for its turn on the frontline if Pokrovsk, an hour's drive to the east, falls.

My report, with amazing photography by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

What it's like to be Jewish in Britain now The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there

"The actions of a country 3,000 miles away of which I am not a citizen have left me feeling unwelcome in the place I was born. Pick a side. The isolating irony is that I can’t."

Powerful piece from @rmcunliffe.bsky.social

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Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he again told some unnamed Canadian official that the country should consider joining the U.S. as the 51st state — returning to the annexationist rhetoric he u...

There was so much that was bizarre - and worrying - about the Trump/Hegseth pep rally with assembled US generals that I somehow missed the return of Trump’s rhetoric about annexing Canada…

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Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences Kyiv’s interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in final seconds

Months of devastating Russian air attacks suggest Moscow has succeeded in altering ballistic missiles to evade Ukraine's Patriot air defences, officials say. A "pattern" has emerged in which incoming missiles behaved differently in their "terminal phase."
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Israel rejects idea of Palestinian state as condemnation of Trump-inspired peace plan builds Hamas has only told the Qataris, who have been key mediators on ceasefire talks in Gaza, that they would ‘review the plan in good faith’

“This plan is horrendous."

Criticism of Donald Trump's "peace plan" for Gaza is mounting - and coming from many different directions - @ereguly.bsky.social reports from Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Hamas has yet to give its reply

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Israel’s nonstop attack on Gaza continues as Sumud Flotilla nears enclave At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant Ukrainian president says Russian shelling is preventing work to restore links to grid and that one of the plant’s diesel generators has failed * See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the grid for seven straight days, warning of the potential threat of a “critical” situation. It is the longest outage at Zaporizhzhia since Russia invaded and seized the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest. Continue reading...

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Training grounds…

⚡️ Massive fire broke out following Russian drone attack against Dnipro. Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak reports that there are casualties. The number of casualties is to be confirmed later.

Michael Valpy with a great final salute to Ross H. Munro, one of my predecessors in The Globe and Mail’s China bureau…

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