Ukraine data collection For our analyses of building destruction during the Ukraine war, we draw on three existing datasets. War damage data We use war-related damage data from ref. 9, which identifies probable damage across Ukrainian human settlements between March 2022 and October 2023. This dataset was generated using a coherent change detection framework applied to Sentinel-1
As the UK unveiled sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israel responded with fury, declaring it would shutter Britain’s diplomatic mission to the Palestinians, kick out UK military staff from an international coordination base near Gaza and ban nearly a dozen left-wing British members of parliament from entering into Israel.
The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, who in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”. Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in
Iranian state media also reported on Sunday that the country’s Navy had attacked an American remote-controlled vessel that was trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz. The US military has denied the claim. “The report came from Iranian state media and it’s a total lie,” said Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for Centcom, according to
The U.S. military has denied Iran ’s claim to have struck an unmanned American military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a “total lie.” Meanwhile, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people and leveled a hospital, according to Lebanese authorities, near an area that has become a flashpoint in fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group
Domestic politics can rarely be ruled out of the equation when the Falklands issue flares back up. However, Buenos Aires argues that the matter has become urgent: “A clear and urgent danger”, as Milei put it. With two energy companies – the Israeli-owned Navitas Petroleum and Rockhopper Exploration from the UK – due to undertake
