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Teenager Fatally Shot by Australian Police After He Stabbed a Man

Teenager Fatally Shot by Australian Police After He Stabbed a Man

Linked media - Connected media After the officers fired their tasers, the suspect continued to advance toward the officer carrying the firearm, who then fatally shot him. The teen died an hour later at the hospital. Before his confrontation with the police, the suspect had stabbed a middle-age male in the parking lot. The victim, who suffered a stab wound to the back, was in serious but stable condition, the authorities said. The police said the suspect, a white male whose identity was not released, had been known to the police for the last few years for having potentially violent…
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Israel, Gaza and the Law on Starvation in War

Israel, Gaza and the Law on Starvation in War

Related media - Connected media In a March 15 letter to a British parliamentary committee, David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, expressed his “enormous frustration” that aid supplied by the United Kingdom had been “routinely held up” on its way to Gaza. “The main blockers remain arbitrary denials by the government of Israel and lengthy clearance procedures including multiple screenings and narrow opening windows in daylight hours,” he wrote. Before Oct. 7, around 500 trucks entered Gaza each day, carrying both aid and commercial items, Mr. Cameron said. That number fell by approximately 75 percent in the early months of the…
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