On Monday 16 October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a further £10 million in humanitarian aid funding for civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), in response to the escalating conflict.
A resolution drafted by Brazil about the ongoing military crisis in the Middle East will be discussed Wednesday by the United Nations Security Council in New York, Agencia Brasil reported. The South American country currently chairs the body.
The agreement signed Tuesday in Barbados between the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro and the main opposition leaders has been welcomed by the European Union, the United States, Brazil, and Argentina among other players on the world stage.
A missile hit a Christian health facility belonging to the Anglican Church in Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least 500, according to authorities in the Islamist-controlled Strip, after which the terrorist group Hamas and the government of Israel exchanged accusations as to who had fired the deadly rocket.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with the head of the New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff, to advance the South American country's accession to the BRICS financial institution.
While US President Joseph Biden announced Monday he would be traveling to Israel this coming Wednesday to express his country's support in light of Hamas' attacks, his administration hinted sanctions against Venezuela would be eased if free and fair elections are held in 2024. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has forcefully expressed his support for the Palestinian cause and against Israel.
A Uruguayan Hercules C-130 transport aircraft performed the South American country's last relief flight, bringing out people from war-torn Israel to Madrid while Argentina was still evacuating its own Tuesday, it was reported.
Various members of the Chilean delegation touring China ahead of the III Forum of the Belt and Road International Cooperation have tested positive for Covid-19 although President Gabriel Boric Font's results came back negative. All those infected will begin a 5-day isolation as per Chilean sanitary protocols, it was reported.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández held meetings in Shanghai with businessmen and local authorities ahead of his participation at the Third Belt and Road Forum to which he was invited by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its concern this past weekend regarding the evacuation of patients from northern Gaza and insisted Israel's ultimatum for 1.1 million people to move to the south was tantamount to a death sentence, in addition to the risk that the most critically ill might need to be left behind.