Drone strike kills three U.S. service members in Jordan
Three U.S. service members have been killed in Jordan yesterday and 25 others have been injured in what the U.S. mentioned was a drone strike from an Iran-backed militia. The deaths have been the primary U.S. navy fatalities from hostile hearth within the turmoil spilling over from Israel’s battle with Hamas in Gaza.
The assault occurred at a base close to the Syrian border. Few particulars have been instantly out there, however the deaths of U.S. service members will nearly definitely put extra stress on President Biden to reply extra forcefully as turmoil grows within the Center East after the Oct. 7 assaults.
“Whereas we’re nonetheless gathering the details of this assault, we all know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant teams working in Syria and Iraq,” Biden mentioned in a press release.
In Iraq: This month, not less than 4 U.S. service members have been injured when their base got here below hearth from what the U.S. mentioned have been Iran-backed militias.
Close to Yemen: Final Sunday, the U.S. declared two Navy SEALs useless after they disappeared throughout an operation at sea to intercept weapons from Iran headed to Houthi fighters. They have been the primary identified U.S. fatalities in Washington’s marketing campaign in opposition to the Iran-backed militia, which has fired on business ships off Yemen since November.
A brief cease-fire? Negotiators are closing in on a deal by which Israel would pause preventing in Gaza for about two months if Hamas launched greater than 100 hostages.
UNRWA imperiled after terrorism accusations in opposition to staff
The U.S. and several other different nations have mentioned they’ll droop some funding for UNRWA, the U.N. company that aids Palestinian refugees, after a dozen of its staff have been accused by Israel of collaborating within the Oct. 7 assaults.
Yesterday, António Guterres, the secretary normal of the U.N., implored the foremost donor nations to proceed their help. He mentioned that, with out it, UNRWA would run out of cash subsequent month. Fears of famine are rising within the enclave, and two million Gazans depend upon UNRWA for meals, water and important providers.
Israel and the U.N. shared detailed, particular intelligence with the U.S. final week. Neither Israel nor the U.N. have gone public with the small print, however a prime U.N. official referred to as the accusations “extraordinarily severe and horrific.” U.S. officers mentioned that the help company’s resolution to fireside the people was proof that Israel’s info was compelling.
Particulars: UNRWA fired 9 of the 12 staff who Israel mentioned have been concerned within the assault, Guterres mentioned. One had died and the identities of two have been being “clarified,” he mentioned.
An antiwar candidate rises in Russia
Boris Nadezhdin is working to be Russia’s president on an antiwar platform. His supporters are preventing to get him on the poll to oppose President Vladimir Putin within the presidential election in March, a uncommon public communion that has injected power into the Russian opposition motion.
Election officers might bar Nadezhdin from the poll, and even when he’s allowed to run he won’t win. However his supporters are nonetheless lining up within the bitter chilly to attempt to get sufficient signatures by a Jan. 31 deadline. They see backing him as the one authorized manner left to show their opposition to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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My colleagues interviewed 5 younger folks making an attempt to get jobs in China, the place competitors is immense and alternatives are scarce. The job seekers had employed interview coaches, exhausted their financial savings, despatched off dozens of purposes and labored interim job after interim job.
“Perhaps I’m not ok at toughing issues out,” one younger individual mentioned.
Luxe Korean postpartum care
South Korea has the world’s lowest birthrate. But it surely additionally has a few of the greatest postpartum care.
At a joriwon — a hotel-like lodging — new moms spend weeks recovering. Recent meals are delivered 3 times a day, and there are facials, massages and child-care lessons. Nurses watch the infants, and new moms breastfeed in a communal nursing room.
It’s a comparatively new business; one of many prime joriwons in Seoul opened in 2008. However now eight out of 10 South Korean moms go to a joriwon, and moms ship in reserving requests nearly as quickly as they know they’re pregnant.
The stays can value from a couple of thousand to tens of hundreds of {dollars}, but it surely’s only a blip within the general expense of elevating a baby in South Korea, which can assist clarify the declining birthrate.
