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People receive humanitarian aid packages provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from a warehouse in central Gaza City on 27 August 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. Photo: AFP / OMAR AL-QATTAA Israel has passed a law the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact its work in war-torn Gaza. The lawmakers who drafted the law cited the involvement of some UNRWA staffers in the 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel and for staffers having membership in Hamas and other armed groups. The legislation has alarmed the United Nations and some of Israel's Western allies who fear it would further worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in...

By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo: AFP / Angela Weiss Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in 2005, according to a new lawsuit that joins more than two dozen others accusing the music mogul of sexual misconduct. The civil lawsuit was one of two filed on Monday in a New York state court in Manhattan by Tony Buzbee, a lawyer who says he represents more than 150 victims of Combs' abuse, and has filed at least 17 lawsuits. In Monday's second lawsuit, another male accuser said he was a 17-year-old auditioning for the reality TV show Making the Band when Combs and a bodyguard sexually assaulted him in 2008. "The lawyer behind this lawsuit ...

By Velvet Winter, ABC Entertainment Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth, and Anna Hutchison, starring in The Cabin in the Woods (2011). Photo: Lionsgate Inc It's October, which means it's spooky season. But for some, October means avoiding film trailers and turning down movie night invites for fear of something too monstrous on screen. I see you, and I understand. Although the genre once petrified me, I can now watch films like Longlegs and Alien: Romulus in cinemas and I only cover my eyes a little bit (during the gory parts). So if you've always wanted to dive into horror without getting the wits scared out of you, let me introduce you to the films that helped me ease into the genre. These movies might give you a jolt, but they won't keep you up at night. There are slight SPOILERS for all ...

Rachel Reeves. Photo: PAUL ELLIS / AFP Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves will announce billions of pounds in funding for the National Health Service (NHS) in Wednesday's (local time) budget that will go towards buying new equipment for hospitals and increasing the number of operations. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said tax rises will be necessary to rebuild Britain's public services, pledging no return to austerity despite a difficult fiscal inheritance after Labour won a July election. "I am putting an end to the neglect and under investment (the NHS) has seen for over a decade now," Reeves said on Monday. "We will be known as the government that took the NHS from its worst crisis in its history, got it back on its feet again and made it fit for the bright future ahead of it....

Photo: AFP Donald Trump's team is working to distance the Republican candidate from the vulgar and racist remarks made at his controversial rally at Madison Square Garden as pundits say he made the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history. US President Joe Biden has cast his vote for Democrat Kamala Harris and slammed Trump's rally as "embarrassing". Meanwhile, two ballot boxes were set on fire and Elon Musk is under fire for his $1 million sweepstake for voters. See all of RNZ's US election coverage here: Source link