Interesting findings on the #sustainability backlash, but the choice to include #Turkey as Asia-Pacific and not either #MiddleEast or #Europe is...quite a choice.
Also, more than half the world, by population, is in Asia-Pacific - makes it kind of a useless category to make any conclusions.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in what the U.S.-backed group said was a crowd surge instigated by armed agitators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/17/world/crush-gaza-aid-site-ghf/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians
Powerful airstrikes shook Damascus on Wednesday, as Israel targeted the Syrian Defense Ministry vowing to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze communities in southern Syria and demanding they withdraw. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/israel-strikes-damascus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #israel #syria #lebanon #damascus #middleeast
One in 10 Gaza children screened in UNRWA clinics has been malnourished, the agency said on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/palestinian-children-malnourished-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #children #hunger #malnutrition #un #unicef #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #unrwa
Israel launched attacks in southern Syria on Monday after deadly clashes that involved the Druze community, a minority group that the Jewish state has pledged to protect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/israel-syria-druze-minority/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #syria #druze
This is a real headline. Only Zionism and the Western free world can come up with such depravity!
#Palestine#Gaza#FreePalestine#GazaGenocide#MiddleEast
An Israeli proposal to move Gazans into what is being called a "humanitarian city" is being slammed by critics as a costly distraction at best, and at worst a potential step toward forcing Palestinians off their land. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/israeli-gazans-closed-zone-backlash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
At least eight Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and more than a dozen were wounded in central Gaza when they went to collect water, in an Israeli strike which the military said missed its target. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/israeli-missile-gaza-children-idf/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians
Progress is stalling at talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza, with the sides divided over the extent of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/13/world/gaza-truce-shooting-near-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
…“It’s extraordinary,” said Simon Willison, an independent #AI researcher who’s been testing the tool. “You can ask it a sort of pointed question that is around controversial topics. And then you can watch it literally do a search on X for what #ElonMusk said about this, as part of its research into how it should reply.”
One example widely shared on social media — & which Willison duplicated — asked #Grok to comment on the conflict in the #MiddleEast. The prompted question made no mention of #Musk, but the #chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.
As a so-called reasoning model, much like those made by rivals #OpenAI or #Anthropic, #Grok4 shows its “thinking” as it goes through the steps of processing a question & coming up with an answer.
United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between al-Qaida and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/world/un-report-syria-al-qaida/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #alqaida #terrorism #islamicstate #syria #middleeast #un #us
Ten Palestinians were reported killed Friday while waiting for rations in Gaza, adding to nearly 800 similar deaths in the last six weeks, according to the U.N. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/world/un-hundreds-killed-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gaza #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #middleeast
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they were behind the deadly sinking of a merchant vessel earlier this week, their second attack in 24 hours as they resumed their campaign against Red Sea shipping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/world/yemen-houthis-red-sea-merchant-ship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #yemen #houthis #redsea #terrorism #middleeast
Israeli operations are pushing tens of thousands of West Bank Palestinians like Lutfi out of their homes, says B'Tselem, the independent Israeli human rights information center. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/world/ghost-camp-israel-west-bank/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #westbank #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #benjaminnetanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, during a visit to the White House as the U.S. presses for a ceasefire in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/world/politics/netanyahu-trump-nobel-peace-prize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Two crew members of a Greek-managed vessel were wounded and two were missing in a drone attack off Yemen hours after Iran-aligned Houthi militants claimed an assault on another bulk carrier in the Red Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/world/yemen-houthis-attack-greek-ship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #yemen #redsea #houthis #shipping #terrorism #middleeast
A proposal with the name of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on it describes a plan to build large-scale camps called "Humanitarian Transit Areas” to house the Palestinian population. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/world/politics/humanitarian-transit-areas-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
A sharp increase in barriers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip is seen putting towns and villages in a state of permanent siege. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/west-bank-prison-israel-fences/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #westbank
Israel said it carried out a wave of strikes on areas in Yemen held by Houthi rebels, saying they were "in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/israel-houthi-sites-yemen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #yemen #houthis #redsea #middleeast #israel
Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks in Qatar ended inconclusively on Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump could help advance a deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/politics/netanyahu-trump-gaza-deal-doha-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #us #qatar #middleeast #palestinians #benjaminnetanyahu #gaza #hamas #israelhamaswar #donaldtrump
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