November 2, 2024

Daily News Brief

*) Israel 'not serious' about Gaza ceasefire — Hamas Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that Israel does not take Gaza ceasefire negotiations seriously. A senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Israel does not offer any genuine proposals and "is definitively not serious in the (ceasefire) negotiations." He added that Hamas would proceed without hesitation with any proposal that meets people's demands and ends their suffering, and completely halts the Israeli aggression, not temporarily *) Single surgeon for the only hospital in northern Gaza Meanwhile, the only Hospital in northern Gaza operates with limited capabilities and a single surgeon, in light of the deadly Israeli incursion for nearly one month. The al-Awda Hospital is the only hospital in northern Gaza that has a doctor specialising in general surgery. At times, many wounded people require urgent medical interventions amid low and limited medical capabilities. *) Buffer zone ordered around a Sikh place of worship in Canada A Vancouver judge has ordered a buffer zone around a Sikh temple over fears of violence. The safe zone was requested by Ross Street Gurdwara officials to keep apart Sikh separatists advocating for an independent state of Khalistan and visiting Indian officials. The court order follows Canadian police investigations that found the Indian government allegedly has been involved in extreme violence on Canadian soil, including the assassination of a Canadian Sikh in 2023. *) Ukraine needs to use long-range missiles against N.Korean troops: Zelenskyy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine needed permission from its allies to fire long-range missiles into Russia in the face of a North Korean troops deployment there. He said that at every site where Russia is amassing these North Korean soldiers on its territory Ukraine could strike preventively only if they had the capability. He accused Kiev's allies of "just waiting for the North Korean military to start striking at Ukrainians" instead of providing "the long-range capability that is so necessary". *) China uses Meta to develop military AI According to academic papers and analysts, top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications,. Academic papers have detailed how China had used an early version of Meta's Llama as a base for what it calls "ChatBIT". The researchers used an earlier Llama 2 13B large language model incorporating their parameters to construct a military-focused AI tool to gather and process intelligence and offer accurate and reliable information for operational decision-making.