Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.

The Israeli parliament advanced two controversial bills on Monday, including one that would expand the use of the death penalty for convicted “terrorists” and individuals found guilty of nationalistic...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

<article data-history-node-id="431335" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-israeli-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners-attempt-legitimise-mass" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-israeli-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners-attempt-legitimise-mass" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas: Israeli bill to execute Palestinian prisoners 'attempt to legitimise mass murder'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Tuesday said that ratifying the law to execute Palestinian prisoners is "an extension of the racist Zionist approach and an attempt to legitimise mass murder against our people".</p> <p>Hamas called the Israeli bill a "dangerous criminal escalation within the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing against" Palestinian people.</p> <p>The Israeli Knesset advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".</p> <p>In the first reading, 39 members approved the bill, while 16 others opposed it.&nbsp;</p> <p>A bill must pass the third and final level of voting by a simple majority to become law.</p> <p>The legislation, championed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, was pushed through the Knesset’s National Security Committee on 3 November, drawing widespread condemnation from human rights groups.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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The Drone, Flown by Members of a Security Squad From a Nearby Israeli Settlement in the Northern West Bank, Lightly Wounded an Activist and Then Fell to the Ground. Executive Director of Rabbis for Hu...

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