Innholdsfortegnelse for December 29, 2023 i Newsweek International

In Focus THE NEWS IN PICTURES WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stand side-by-side on stage at a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on December 12 after Biden announced $200 million in preapproved military aid for Ukraine. During his third D.C. tour since the war began, Zelensky met with members of Congress to detail Ukraine’s progress against Russia and its need for additional financial and military support, while Congress remains stalled on a national security package that bundles Israel and Ukraine aid with U.S. border policy changes.…

ON X, FORMERLY TWITTER, PRO-grammatic advertisements for dozens of major brands, governments, educational institutions and nonprofits are being displayed in the feeds directly below viral posts advancing false or egregiously misleading claims about the Israel-Hamas war, a NewsGuard analysis has found. Under the terms of a new advertising revenue sharing program that X introduced for its “creators,” a portion of the advertising income generated by these organizations would apparently be shared with these superspreaders of misinformation. From November 13 to November 22, 2023, News-Guard analysts reviewed programmatic ads that appeared in the feeds below 30 viral tweets that contained false or egregiously misleading information about the war. Programmatic ads are served via algorithms to target digital ads to online readers. Brands typically do not select where programmatic ads run and…

ISRAEL AT WAR AS ISRAEL WAGES WHAT ITS GOV-ernment says will be a protracted conflict to defeat Hamas and bring home hostages held in the Gaza Strip, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official tells Newsweek exclusively that the scope and length of the campaign is being influenced by growing internal and external pressure. The comments give unique insight into the likely remaining time frame for a conflict that has dominated global headlines since Hamas launched an unprecedentedly bloody raid of killing and kidnapping in Israel on October 7. Both the pressure to bring the hostages home quickly and the difficulty of operating in Gaza were thrown into sharp relief on December 15, when the Israeli army said it had mistakenly killed three hostages after erroneously identifying them as a threat.…

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THE PAIN STRUCK DEEP FOR SHARON LIFSHITZ as the truce between Israel and Hamas broke down early this month. Her 85-year-old mother, Yocheved, had been among the first hostages to be freed by Hamas in late October, even before the brief halt in hostilities a month later to swap some of the captives it seized in its unprecedentedly bloody October 7 raid on Israel in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners held in Israeli jails. Her 83-year-old father, Oded, is still in Gaza somewhere. She does not know if he is alive. “Our loved ones are dying slowly in Gaza. My father is probably a mile from here. He’s not far, he’s not in another world. You can walk it in half an hour,” Lifshitz told Newsweek in the burned ruins…

HorizonsSCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY + HEALTHARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DEPTHS OFF ITALY, DIVERS MADE A DIS-covery that could rewrite history. They found a series of ancient, enigmatic artifacts made from volcanic glass, potentially linked to a Neolithic shipwreck—a revelation that could be, as one expert put it in language not usually found in the domain of scientific research, “mind-blowing.” In October, divers from the underwater unit of the Naples Police identified the submerged remains, which are made from a material called obsidian, near Capri—an island in the Bay of Naples overlooked by the volcano Mount Vesuvius on the mainland. The pieces of obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava with a particular chemical composition, lie on the seabed at a depth of 100 to 130 feet, close to…