WEST BANK: The Israeli occupying army said on Tuesday that it demolished the home of a Palestinian involved in an attack in Tel Aviv that killed one and wounded two others last March.

The army destroyed the home of Moataz Khawaja in the town of Naalin, north-west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. 

FRANCE: The French government today banned any domestic commercial flights that can be covered by train in less than two and a half hours.

The move, aimed at reducing carbon emissions by the airline industry, will rule out flights between Paris and regional hubs such as Bordeaux and Lyon.

The move comes ahead of proposals aimed at reducing emissions from private jets.

CAMBODIA: Three Cambodian land rights activists were arrested on charges of plotting against the government and planning to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions between rich and poor, an official said today.

Theng Savoeun, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community, and his colleagues Nhel Pheap and Than Hach were charged with plotting against the state and incitement to commit a felony, said Am Sam Ath of the local rights group Licadho.

UNITED STATES: About 160 resident physicians went on strike Monday over low pay at New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital Centre, a public hospital once known as the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

The doctors-in-training are the first doctors to go on strike in the city since 1990, according to their trade union, the Committee of Interns and Residents local of the Service Employees International Union.