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Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians

© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Heavy rains have led to flooding in the streets of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Heavy rains created new misery in Gaza as UN humanitarians repeated deep concerns on Thursday over the deteriorating health situation in the Strip, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and fighting with Palestinian armed groups.

UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said that many areas in the enclave have been flooded, “worsening the struggle of displaced Palestinians”, while UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was due to brief journalists in Geneva on the situation on Thursday, following his most recent visit to Gaza.
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‘Illegal betting is the number one factor fuelling corruption in sports’, UN conference hears

FIFA The FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 is getting underway in Australia & New Zealand including at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.

The global problem of illegal sports betting, the fraudulent manipulation of competitions, and the involvement of organized crime in the sporting world has been tackled at a UN conference in Atlanta, United States.

The discussions at the international anti-corruption conference, convened in Atlanta by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), held between 11 and 15 December, built on the ground-breaking Global Report on Corruption in Sport, produced by the UNODC in 2021, which pointed to a dramatic increase in illegal betting, fuelled by the billions of dollars flowing through professional sports, as well as globalization, and technological advances.

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US Congress passes bill allowing sale of Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia

US Congress passes bill allowing sale of Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia

Legislation covering a wide range of military issues clears the way for Virginia class vessels to bolster Pacific defence

Daniel Hurst and Josh Butler

The US Congress has passed legislation allowing the country to sell Virginia class submarines to Australia under the Aukus security pact.… Read the rest

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African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem in France in November 1968. Photograph: Yves Le Roux/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

In 1968 the books pages of the French newspaper Le Monde excitedly praised an uncompromising new novel, Bound to Violence, going on to salute its author as one of “the rare intellectuals of international stature presented to the world by Black Africa”.

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