The USA has just told Israel it cannot use Western-supplied weapons to strike military targets inside Iran for fear of escalation. Oh sorry, got the wars mixed up here... #Ukraine

Večernji list The conflict is fuelled by extremists on both sides, notes Dominic Johnson in the taz ▶️eurotopics.net/en/327180

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Tirs de missiles iraniens : quelle sera la réaction d'Israël ? Dominic Johnson souligne les multiples attaques de tous bords, dans une guerre totalement débridée. 👉 eurotopics.net/fr/327180

The migrant story.

BREAKING: At least 20 dead reported as ferry sinks in Lake Kivu #DRC just before arrival on the way from Minova to #Goma. Rescue & revival efforts ongoing.

Can we take a rest? Maybe die for a few months or years and wake up when the poem is complete, when the flowers in our garden start to grow, their scent luring the sparrows into visiting our house, our house that’s now a small forest of rubble.

Lake Kivu ferry sinking in #Goma with possibly hundreds dead is the latest in a string of disasters forcing the lack of safe transport in #DRC onto the political agenda. My take in TAZ taz taz.de/Bootsunglueck-…

“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” ⁦⁦⁦by ⁦Lina Mounzer themarkaz.org/a-year-of-war-…

US healthcare workers on the ground offer a glimpse into the hell that is #Gaza after 1 year of war: "Everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. Israel’s continued, repeated displacement of the malnourished and sick population is absolutely shocking" gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct…

Of $33m spending allocated to combat insecurity in Eastern #DRC under the state of emergency in 2021, 29m disappeared, Butembo MP says

Oh dear: #DRC Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, whose 2023 election campaign manager owed his fame to having urged Congolese to kill Tutsi, now stands in solidarity with a leading denier of the #Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi, currently on trial in France.

#RDC|🇨🇩Crise à #Goma : Blocage de la route devant la morgue de l'hôpital général Alors que l'enterrement des victimes du naufrage du 3 octobre sur le lac Kivu est prévu pour aujourd'hui, mercredi 9 octobre, la situation s'est tendue devant la morgue de l'hôpital général. Des

Six days after the MV Merdi ferry disaster in #Goma #DRC, relatives say that over 500 passengers are still missing and criticise the authorities. TAZ taz taz.de/Nach-dem-Faehr…

A terrible tragic news: Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who was kidnapped in the occupied territories of Ukraine, has died in a Russian prison. It has happened on September 19th, but her father received the news only today. She was on hunger strike for many days, many

#Cameroon #Cameroun #Kamerun expertly fuelling the rumours about the president's health (or lack of it)

German media will hate this.

On the site of one of last night’s two strikes in central Beirut. This has terrified people - it’s seen as massively broadening the (civilian) areas that could be attacked at any time by Israel. There was no warning & rescue efforts are ongoing. At least 22 killed, 117 injured.

#DRC ruling party UDPS launches process to revise the 2006 Constitution and reminds the country that it never agreed to it in the first place (it boycotted the 2005 referendum). Slippery slope which could be misinterpreted as legitimising unconstitutional activities.

Genocide denials of 1959 and early 1960 by PARMEHUTU's ideologue Anastase Makuza and their godfather Bishop Andre Perraudin facilitated the genocide against Tutsi in 1994. With symbiotic relationship with the likes of Charles Onana & the like. Read more: newtimes.co.rw/article/20860/…

“The signature disappointment of this election … is not so much the shock of the maga 1000s cheering Trump at his rallies but the quieter awfulness of those who knew better and facilitated his return anyway.” Susan Glasser Susan Glasser puts her finger on it 👇 newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…