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25 Preterm Babies in a Rafah Hospital Face Immediate Risk of Dying Amid Israeli Incursion

Jezebel.com 

Doctors in Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza where over 1 million displaced Palestinians have fled, are raising alarm over the impact Israel's expected military escalation will have on 25 preterm babies in incubators at Emirate Maternity Hospital. Glia, a medical aid group that currently has eight personnel at Emirate, said in a dispatch shared with Jezebel on Monday that no fuel has entered Gaza since May 6; the hospial has enough fuel for about 48 hours until its reserves run out. (On May 9... Читать дальше...

Secret Hamas files show how it spied on everyday Palestinians

Sun-Sentinel 

Hamas leader Yehia Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Review: Alien Earths

The Space Review 

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets over the last three decades, a remarkable menagerie of worlds. Jeff Foust reviews a book by one scientists that describes the efforts to both search for exoplanets and look for one that may be inhabitable or inhabited.

Climate change hardly a burning issue for Indian voters

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Unprecedented climate change disasters are impacting India, but political parties and voters are largely overlooking the issue during the elections. Only regional party DMK has concrete climate change plans. In contrast, Europe prioritizes climate action in elections. Indian voters are more focused on traditional issues like unemployment and inflation.

Tariffs Do Cause a Slight Temporary Increase in Inflation

Library of Economics and Liberty 

Don Boudreaux writes:

Unlike you who find Duncan Braid’s May 6th harangue against supporters of free trade “devastating,” I find it to be tendentious. Braid writes triumphantly as if he’s caught us free traders in yet another of our Keystone Kops antics – specifically here, our effort to blame tariffs for inflation. Yet no competent economist or advocate of free trade is guilty of this ridiculous charge. If one were, Braid’s evidence of free-traders’ belief that tariffs cause inflation... Читать дальше...