Jerusalem

 

Jewish men, some carrying weapons, pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Photograph:  Christopher Furlong/Getty

Homeless awareness in New York

 

People prepare to sleep in Times Square to highlight homelessness.  Reuters.

Starvation fears in Gaza

 

 

Palestinians wait to buy bread from a bakery, amid shortages of food supplies and fuel. 

Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Wayne Irving dies in ambulance at Ipswich hospital

 

Wayne Irving died in the back of an ambulance last night at Ipswich hospital.  He arrived at 9.15pm and wasn’t admitted until 12.15am. 

As he was being transported down the ramp he went into cardiac arrest and died shortly after.

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Woman dies in ambulance waiting outside Tasmanian hospital

 

Anne Pedler with her husband and grandchildren. She died from a cardiopulmonary arrest while waiting in an ambulance outside Launceston general hospital.

 Photograph: Stella Jennings

 

President Xi Jinping meets President Biden

 

President Biden shakes hands with President Xi Jinping at Filoli estate in Woodside, California, 16 November, 2023. 

Photograph:  Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

China is ready to be a partner and friend of the United States, and there is plenty of room for bilateral co-operation, President Xi Jinping told American executives in San Francisco on Wednesday

 

Met Police Commissioner under fire

 

London, UK

Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has been told to “please explain” as the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman accused the Met of bias for letting pro-Palestinian marches go ahead in the capital. 

Photograph:  Leon Neal/Getty Images