The appointment followed the end of the term of the current president, Sahle-Work Zewde, after six years of service as the country’s head of state.
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According to a statement released by RURA, these revised prices will take effect starting at 7 p.m. on October 8 and will remain in place for two months.
RURA explained that the adjustments are a result of recent fluctuations in international petroleum product prices. The last price update occurred in August.
This marks the third consecutive time petrol prices have decreased since April, when RURA raised fuel prices.
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Here are some of the main takeaways:
Climate Action and Sustainability:
Climate change was a dominant theme, with world leaders emphasizing the need for urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. There was a strong push for nations to commit to more ambitious environmental goals, particularly in the context of sustainable development and protecting vulnerable populations most affected by extreme weather events.
Global Inequality and Debt Relief:
Developing nations, especially from the Global South, continued to press for solutions to global inequality and debt relief. Many leaders highlighted the disproportionate impact of economic crises on poorer nations, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and global inflation, urging wealthier countries to step up their support.
Nuclear Disarmament:
The Assembly commemorated the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres warning about the risks of a new arms race. He called for nuclear-armed states to recommit to non-proliferation and emphasized diplomacy and dialogue to de-escalate tensions, particularly concerning North Korea and other geopolitical flashpoints.
Global Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises:
The ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Sudan were at the forefront, with calls for increased diplomatic efforts to resolve these crises. President Zelensky of Ukraine and other leaders used the platform to address the international community, appealing for stronger global solidarity.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
There was a renewed focus on reversing the backsliding on SDGs, particularly in education, healthcare, and poverty eradication. Many nations reiterated their commitment to achieving these goals by 2030, despite current economic and environmental challenges.
These discussions reflect the UNGA’s continued role in addressing both immediate crises and long-term global challenges, with an emphasis on cooperation and multilateralism to achieve lasting peace and sustainability.
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In a notice to passengers, Rwanda’s national carrier stated that this mandatory measure aims to ensure the well-being and safety of everyone as outlined by the Ministry of Health. Passengers can fill out the questionnaire with the assistance of staff from the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) or complete a declaration form online, download the QR code, and present it upon arrival at the airport.
Travellers are also advised to monitor for MVD symptomsâ”such as fever, severe headaches, muscle aches, vomiting, and diarrheaâ”before departing Rwanda and to seek medical advice immediately if they experience any of these symptoms.
To help curb the spread of the virus, RwandAir stated that passengers should expect routine temperature checks using Thermo-Scan Cameras, as well as the availability of hand sanitizing stations.
The airline emphasized Rwanda’s capacity to manage the health emergency, stating, 'Rwanda’s proven ability to handle public health challenges ensures a safe environment for all travellers. The country’s commitment to scientific and evidence-based responses, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, remains a top priority in safeguarding the well-being of everyone in Rwanda.'
So far, Rwanda has confirmed 56 cases of Marburg disease, with 12 deaths and 8 recoveries. Cumulative tests have surpassed 2,300.
Initial symptoms of Marburg virus disease include high fever, severe headaches, muscle and joint pain, and fatigue, followed by gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. As the disease progresses, it can cause severe hemorrhaging, organ failure, and shock.
To prevent infection, health experts recommend strict hygiene practices, such as frequent handwashing and avoiding contact with personal items or bodily fluids of individuals showing symptoms of Marburg virus disease.
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Things got unexpectedly racy onboard a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on all the aircraft's screens.
According to a statement from the Australian airline confirming the incident to CNN, passengers on the flight from Sydney to Tokyo's Haneda Airport last week were unable to select movies individually due to a technical issue with the inflight entertainment system.
'Our crew members had a limited list of movies that they were able to play across all screens on the aircraft and based on the request from a number of passengers, a particular movie was selected for the entire flight,' said the statement.
Though Qantas did not name the movie in its statement, multiple photos of inflight screens posted on social media by users claiming to be on the flight revealed the film to be 'Daddio.'
The 2023 drama starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn is rated R by the US Motion Pictures Association 'for language throughout, sexual material and brief graphic nudity.'
According to a post by a Reddit user who was reportedly on the flight, in addition to nudity, the movie featured 'a lot of sexting â” the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones.'
'It took almost an hour of this before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was super uncomfortable for everyone, especially with families and kids onboard,' said the post, which included images of the phone texts shown in the film, and noted passengers were unable to pause or turn off their screens.
In its statement, Qantas said crew initially attempted to fix the screens for customers who did not want to watch the movie. Once it was confirmed this was not possible they switched it to a children's film.
The airline said cabin crew apologized to passengers, 'particularly those who had complained about the content' and will follow up with them.
'The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for this experience,' said a Qantas spokesperson.
'All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn't possible. We are reviewing how the movie was selected.'
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On the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, Gaza's north was hit with more Israeli strikes, with no end in sight to the war devastating the enclave. Israel's objective of defeating Hamas still seems far from reach as its military offensives in Gaza continue to ramp up.
Israel launched a new ground operation in northern Gaza on Sunday and encircled the Jabalya refugee camp, where it says it saw signs of Hamas regrouping. Hamas's military wing said its fighters clashed with 'enemy forces' in Jabalya, an indication the group has been able to maintain a presence there. Earlier this year, Israel's military said it had defeated Hamas in northern Gaza, only to announce new offensives there in May.
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people in the Jabalya camp on Monday. The camp was targeted early on in Israel's response to Hamas' attacks one year ago and has been struck several times during the war.
The Israeli military also issued fresh evacuation orders to residents in northern and southern Gaza on Monday, as it ramped up its attacks in both parts of the pummeled enclave.
The war has displaced 1.9 million people, according to the United Nations. Residents who spoke to CNN said they feel there is no safe place to go.
A worker for the non-profit organization Mercy Corps that CNN spoke to said she has been displaced more than a dozen times since last year. She now lives in a shelter in central Gaza. CNN is not using her real name due to concerns for her safety.
The war has killed more than 41,000 people, more than a third of whom are children. Almost 100,000 are wounded, and an unknown number of people ┠possibly in the thousands ┠remain under rubble across Gaza, according to the UN.
Hundreds of aid workers have been killed, including more than 220 team members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which chief Philippe Lazzarini said was the highest death toll in the history of the United Nations.
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The RNP spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Boniface Rutikanga said that some people, who engage in such illegal cross-border trade tend to be violent to Police officers involved in enforcement operations.
“There are people, especially in borderline districts, who form groups to engage in smuggling and drug trafficking, and are sometimes violent,” ACP Rutikanga said.
He added: “On Monday, October 7, at about 5 a.m, Police officers foiled a gang of eight smugglers in Nyacyonga Village, Rusiza Cell of Bugeshi Sector, Rubavu District, who had sneaked goods into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The group dropped the goods and fled back into the same direction. However, they regrouped, crossed back into Rwanda armed with stones and other objects, attacked the Police officers so as to rescue their seized goods.
Despite warnings including shooting in the air to disperse the group, it became more violent and in the process one of them was fatally shot.”
The spokesperson reiterated that such illegal cross-border and smuggling can also be the source other criminal activities like drug traffickers, arms smugglers and people that would want to harm Rwandans.
“It has been observed that some parents engaged in smuggling and drug trafficking activities also involve their children. In any case, stop when you are stopped and don’t be violent towards security organs conducting enforcement operations,” ACP Rutikanga advised.
He lauded the impact of the public in fighting cross-border crimes and called for strengthened partnership against smuggling, drug trafficking and other illegal cross-border activities.
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Israel launched an intense wave of air raids on southern Lebanon on Monday, with 100 aircraft targeting about 120 sites in the space of an hour, according to the country's military.
An IDF Arabic spokesperson issued an urgent warning to Lebanese civilians to avoid being on the beach or on boats on the coast from the Awali River southward until further notice.
The wave of strikes came as Israelis marked the anniversary of last year's 7 October attacks by Hamas, the trigger for a year of escalating war in the region.
The IDF also announced on Monday that it had designated a new closed military zone in northern Israel, the fourth closed area since the ground invasion started, running eastward from the Mediterranean coast.
'These targets belonged to various units of the Hezbollah terrorist organisation, including regional units of Hezbollah's southern front, the Radwan Forces, the Missiles and Rockets Force, and the Intelligence Directorate,' the IDF said in a statement.
'This operation follows a series of strikes aimed at degrading Hezbollah's command, control, and firing capabilities, as well as assisting ground forces in achieving their operational goals.'
As memorial events took place across Israel, violence continued to rage on multiple fronts, with Israel also expanding its ground operation into Lebanon with elements of a third division joining the fighting.
Amid clear evidence that Israel is rapidly ramping up its military operations against multiple Iran-allied proxies, Hamas fired rockets out of Gaza to coincide with memorial events, vowing to continue with a 'long and painful war of attrition' against Israel.
Hamas's ability to fire rockets, although massively constrained by 12 months of a devastating Israeli offensive that has claimed more than 41,000 Palestinian lives, comes despite periodic statements from the IDF declaring the group effectively beaten.
Despite the quickly increasing tempo of Israeli military operations, Hezbollah also fired scores of missiles at Israel throughout the day on Monday, while a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis was shot down as evening fell.
Fears of a wider regional escalation, not least from the anticipated 'significant' retaliation that Israel has promised for Iran's large-scale missile attack last week, were underlined by the UK's announcement that it had withdrawn family members of diplomats in the country.
'As a precautionary measure following escalation in the region, family members of British embassy staff have been temporarily withdrawn,' the Foreign Office travel advice webpage for Israel reads. 'Our staff members remain.'
With expectation high that Israel could launch a major retaliation against Iran at any moment, Tehran repeated its own insistence that it would respond to any Israeli attack on its soil.
In Lebanon, where Israel insisted its week-long ground operation was to be 'limited' and 'targeted', elements of three divisions are now involved in the fighting, after the IDF said in a statement that its 91st division had joined the ground incursion overnight.
Night-vision images released on Monday showed a column of infantry moving into Lebanon with heavy rucksacks and sleeping pads, suggesting it was more than a short raid.
According to the statement, the division's forces were redeployed to northern Israel over the last two weeks, joining units from the 36th and 83rd divisions already involved in the fighting in Lebanon.
The widening conflict risks further drawing in the US, which has provided crucial military and diplomatic support to Israel. Iran-allied militant groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have joined in with long-distance strikes on Israel.
A fresh round of airstrikes hit Beirut's suburbs late on Sunday as Israel also intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza, calling for evacuations of the north of the territory amid renewed military operations.
In southern Lebanon an Israeli strike killed at least 10 firefighters, the latest in a series of strikes that have killed dozens of first responders, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
It said they were in a municipality building in the southern town of Baraachit that was hit as they prepared for a mission. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported more than 30 strikes overnight into Sunday, while Israel's military said about 130 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Last week, Israel launched what it called a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon after it killed the longtime Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and most of his top commanders in a series of attacks. The fighting is the worst since Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long war in 2006.
At least 1,400 Lebanese people, including civilians, medics and Hezbollah fighters, have been killed and 1.2 million driven from their homes. Israel says it aims to drive the militant group from the blue line boundary between the two countries so tens of thousands of Israeli citizens can return home.
The Israeli military is setting up a forward operating base near a UN peacekeeping mission on the blue line in southern Lebanon. The base put peacekeepers at risk, said an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after Israel's 1978 invasion, refused the Israeli military's request to vacate some of its positions in advance of the ground incursion. Hezbollah said it would not target Israeli forces near the base, and accused Israel of using human shields.
In Gaza, where there has also been a sharp rise in Israeli military operations, Israeli tanks advanced into Jabalia on Monday, the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight historic urban refugee camps, after encircling it, residents said.
'We are in a new phase of the war,' the Israeli military said in leaflets dropped over the area. 'These areas are considered dangerous combat zones.'
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Israel will eventually pay the price for the genocide that has been going on in Gaza for a year, the Turkish president said on Monday.
'It should not be forgotten that Israel will sooner or later pay the price for this genocide that has been going on for a year,' Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on X.
Emphasizing the need for collective action against Israel, he said: 'Just as humanity's common alliance stopped Hitler, (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his murder network will be stopped in the same way.'
'Those dying in Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon these days are not only women, children, babies, and innocent civilians but also humanity and the international system,' he added.
He underlined that 50,000 individuals, mostly women and children, have been murdered in Gaza in a year and many institutions in Gaza, including hospitals and schools, were destroyed.
'Many journalists, representatives of civil society organizations, and ambassadors of peace are no longer among us,' Erdogan said.
'For a year, what has been killed before the eyes of the world is humanity itself and all of humanity's hopes for the future,' he added.
The Turkish president also extended condolences to the Palestinian and Lebanese people over the killing of tens of thousands of people by the Israeli government since Oct. 7.
'A world in which no account is held for the Gaza genocide will ever find peace,' said.
'As Türkiye, we will continue to stand against the Israeli government, regardless of the cost, and call on the world to join this honorable stance,' Erdogan added.
Israel has continued its relentless offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last October, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.
Since then, nearly 42,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed, with over 97,100 others injured, according to local health authorities.
The ongoing Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip, exacerbating shortages of food, clean water, and medicine due to a long-standing blockade.
Israel is currently facing genocide charges at the International Court of Justice over its actions in Gaza.
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Hundreds of people have gathered in Tel Aviv for the main memorial ceremony commemorating the victims of the October 7 terror attacks.
The gathering in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park is taking place under strict security measures, with entry restricted only to the families and friends of those who were killed or kidnapped by Hamas and other militant groups during the attack last year.
The original plans to open the gathering to the public were scrapped after Israeli security authorities restricted attendance at events to 2,000 people following the Iranian missile attack last week.
The families began the gathering by holding a minute's silence which will be followed by speeches from some of the family members and survivors of the attack.
The family of Yair Yaakov is among those attending the ceremony, and his son Yigal is among the speakers.
Yaakov, 59, a resident of kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel was murdered on October 7, when terrorists stormed his home. His family, however, didn't know about his death, believing he was taken hostage into Gaza, his brother Yaniv told CNN at the event in Tel Aviv.
It wasn't until February that they found out that he was killed and his body kidnapped into Gaza. Yaniv told CNN that bringing his brother's body back home for burial is now 'the most important thing' for the family, especially for his mother.
'She is alive, but she's not living. This is all she can think about,' he said.
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