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3 Oct 24 Displacement in Lebanon (Mrs. Musick Unit 2.11)

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Between 23 September and 2 October 2024, Lebanese authorities registered almost 1,100 fatalities and 3,000 injuries, suggesting a sharp escalation in conflict activity. Social media reports analysed by Liveuamap show that strikes have affected large parts of Lebanon, with a concentration of incidents in the southern governorates of South and El Nabatieh, as well as in the eastern governorates of Baalbek-El Hermel and Bekaa. Southern areas of Beirut city have also seen strikes, which are of particular concern due to the high population density.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported 160,000 new displacements in the week up to 29 September, to a total of 346,000 displacements since the onset of the conflict on 8 October 2023. These populations have primarily departed from the southern districts of Sour (26%), El Nabatieh (18%), Bent Jbeil (13%), and Marjaayoun (10%), but also from the western Baabda (14%) district, which includes the southern areas of Beirut city. Arrivals were primarily registered along the western coast, in the districts Saida (14%), Aley (14%), Chouf (11%), and Beirut (7%), as well as the northern district of Akkar (11%). While prior to 23 September, displaced persons were primarily arriving in host communities, the majority of new displacements are now arriving to collective centres.

Lastly, a large number of displacements outside of Lebanon has occurred, with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) having registered 128,000 cross-border movements between 24 and 30 September. Of these, 70% were Syrians, while 30% were Lebanese nationals.

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Lebanon: Conflict and Displacement Overview - 02 October 2024 - Lebanon

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Map in English on Lebanon about Protection and Human Rights; published on 2 Oct 2024 by REACH

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2 Oct 24 Israel-Hezbollah Conflict (Mrs. Musick Units 2 & 4)

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Israel-Hezbollah war LIVE: Israeli army announces death of soldier amidst fight with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

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Israel-Iran war live updates: Follow The Hindu’s latest updates on Israel-Hezbollah war on October 2,2024

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1 Oct 24 Qatar-US Visas (Mrs. Musick Unit 2: Population)

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Under new arrangement, Americans can visit Qatar for longer and Qataris can travel to U.S. without visas

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A new arrangement will soon allow American citizens to visit Qatar for longer periods of time and give Qataris access to visa-free travel to the U.S. for tourism or business.

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2023-05-06: King Charles III's Coronation (Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes)

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2023-05-06: King Charles III's Coronation (Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes)

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The coronation of King Charles III in the United Kingdom showcases the enduring cultural significance of monarchy in some nations. This event reflects historical traditions and their role in shaping national identity in the modern world.

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2023-05-05: Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice (Unit 1: Thinking Geographically)

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2023-05-05: Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice (Unit 1: Thinking Geographically)

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Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels, raising concerns about global climate patterns. This event demonstrates the interconnectedness of global systems and the far-reaching impacts of climate change on different regions.

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2023-05-01: AI in Agriculture (Unit 5: Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land-Use Patterns)

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2023-05-01: AI in Agriculture (Unit 5: Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land-Use Patterns)

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The integration of Artificial Intelligence in agriculture is revolutionizing farming practices globally. From precision farming to crop yield prediction, AI is transforming rural land-use patterns and food production methods.

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2023-04-22: Global Youth Climate Strike (Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns)

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2023-04-22: Global Youth Climate Strike (Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns)

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Young people worldwide participated in a coordinated climate strike, demanding action on climate change. This event showcases the role of youth in shaping global discourse and the impact of population demographics on social movements.

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2023-04-20: Mexico's Semiconductor Push (Unit 6: Industrialization and Economic Development)

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2023-04-20: Mexico's Semiconductor Push (Unit 6: Industrialization and Economic Development)

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Mexico is positioning itself as a key player in semiconductor production, aiming to attract major tech companies. This development reflects changing patterns of global industrialization and economic strategies in emerging economies.

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2023-04-14: Sudan Conflict (Unit 4: Political Organization of Space)

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2023-04-14: Sudan Conflict (Unit 4: Political Organization of Space)

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Sudan is experiencing intense fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, leading to a humanitarian crisis. This conflict highlights issues of political organization, power struggles, and the impact on civilian populations.

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2023-03-20: IPCC Climate Report (Unit 1: Thinking Geographically)

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2023-03-20: IPCC Climate Report (Unit 1: Thinking Geographically)

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report, emphasizing the urgent need for action to address climate change. This report underscores the global nature of environmental challenges and their impact on human geography.

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2023-02-06: Turkey-Syria Earthquake (Unit 7: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns Mrs. M)

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2023-02-06: Turkey-Syria Earthquake (Unit 7: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns Mrs. M)

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A devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, causing widespread destruction in urban areas. This event highlights the importance of urban planning, disaster preparedness, and the challenges of rebuilding in densely populated regions.

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2024-10-29: Korean Troops on the Frontline in Ukraine

(Topic 4.8: Defining Devolutionary Factors - Mrs. M)

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KIM JONG-UN has sent Russia 10,000 troops to help them fight against Ukraine, the Pentagon has revealed.

The North Korean dictator has helped out desperate pal Vladimir Putin in his flailing war as Russian soldiers continue to be sent into battle as cannon fodder.

Putin has now suffered over 600,000 casualties as Ukraine fights to valiantly defend itself.

The tyrant's latest power move to try and wrestle back control of the territory has seen him lean on North Korea for additional men.

Putin has been sent around 10,000 troops to be trained up before being deployed in the Kursk region in "the next several weeks," says Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.

She added: "We are increasingly concerned that Russia intends to use these soldiers in combat or to support combat operations against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region."

Nato also confirmed North Korean soldiers have been verified as entering into Russia earlier today.

The group's Secretary General Mark Rutte said the move represents "a significant escalation" in North Korea's involvement in the conflict.

It also marks "a dangerous expansion of Russia's war", he warned.

Despite the threat of an increased conflict, Rutte said it also shows how desperate Vlad has become.

He argued: "Over 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in Putin's war, and he is unable to sustain his assault in Ukraine without foreign support," he said.

"This is because the Ukrainians are fighting back with courage, resilience and ingenuity."

The secretary general spoke in Brussels after a high-level South Korean delegation - including top intelligence and military officials - briefed the alliance's 32 national ambassadors at Nato headquarters.

Rutte said Nato is "actively consulting within the alliance, with Ukraine, and with our Indo-Pacific partners," on developments.

He added he was due to talk soon with South Korea's president and Ukraine 's defence minister.

The first talk of North Korean troops being deployed inside Ukraine came when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cited intelligence reports saying the foreign troops where being expected in days.

The claims came last Friday after his government uncovered information saying some 10,000 troops are being readied to join Russian forces.

General Kyrylo Budanov, the head Ukraine's GUR military intelligence, said the first 2,600 North Koreans may be ready to fight by this Friday.

US and South Korean officials voiced similar concerns with them saying at least 3,000 North Korean troops had been deployed to Russia for training.

Footage appeared to show North Korean troops marching alongside Russian soldiers at a military base near Vladivostok this month.

Video analysed by The Washington Post showed hordes of men who appeared to be of Korean descent at Sergeevka military training ground - near Russia's eastern border with North Korea.

The clips also included audible Korean phrases spoken with a North Korean accent.

Putin bringing over thousands of North Korean soldiers to fight in Europe's biggest conflict since World War II is set to only pile on more pressure to Ukraine's weary and outnumbered army.

But a group of nearly 200 defectors who have fled Kim Jong-un's regime are hoping to turn things around for Ukraine.

They hope to fight for Ukraine and help demoralise and influence Pyongyang's troops to join the right side.

The ex-soldiers, currently living in South Korea, offered their military experience to help wage psychological warfare against Moscow's allies, the South China Morning Post reports.

Ahn Chan-il, a 69-year-old defector and member of the group, said: "We are all military veterans who understand North Korea 's military culture and psychological state better than anyone else.

"We're ready to go wherever needed to work as psychological warfare agents - through loudspeaker broadcasts, distributing leaflets, and even acting as interpreters."

Another important player in the initiative, Lee Min-bok, has made his appeal directly to the Ukrainian government.

He asked President Zelensky for the green light to help rescue North Korean soldiers.

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Kim sends 10,000 troops to fight in Ukraine as Putin suffers 600,000 casualties

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KIM JONG-UN has sent Russia 10,000 troops to help them fight against Ukraine, the Pentagon has revealed. The North Korean dictator has helped out desperate pal Vladimir Putin in his flailing war as...

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As of January, 2025, over one million people in Haiti were internally displaced due to gang violence and political instability. This is a threefold increase from December, 2023. (Allie Hudgins Unit 2).

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Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

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Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 14 January 2024 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The latest data reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are struggling amidst an intensifying humanitarian crisis. Children bear the greatest burden of displacement, making up over half of the displaced population.

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Ethnic conflicts in the Kashmir region have been ongoing since 1947. Now China has even entered the conflict between India and Pakistan, claiming that it has a right to some of the areas bordering its country. (Allie Hudgins, Unit 4)

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The conflict between India and Pakistan arose out of the 1947 partition of British India, which established a Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India. The India Independence Act provided the diverse regions of Jammu and Kashmir the opportunity to choose which country to accede to. The local maharaja (Kashmir's monarch) initially sought independence, seeing as Kashmir had been neglected for centuries by the empires that subjugated it. However, he ultimately agreed to join India in exchange for help against invading Pakistani herdsmen. India then took over the defense of the region, launching the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48. In 1949, the Karachi Agreement established a cease-fire line overseen by UN military observers and recommended a referendum in the territory, though one never materialized.

Tensions simmered until a skirmish between border controls escalated to a full-blown war in 1965. In 1971, India and Pakistan fought another brief war over East Pakistan, with Indian forces helping the territory gain independence. India and Pakistan attempted to usher in a new era of bilateral relations with the 1972 Simla Agreement, which established the Line of Control (LOC), a provisional military control line that split Kashmir into two administrative regions. In the following decades, though, the conflict took on a new dimension when both states developed nuclear weapons, raising the stakes of any confrontation.

In 1989, a burgeoning Pakistani-supported resistance movement in Indian-administered Kashmir reignited tensions, beginning decades of communal violence. Despite a recommitment to the LOC in 1999, Pakistani soldiers crossed the line of control later that year, sparking the Kargil War. Although both countries have maintained a fragile cease-fire since 2003, they regularly exchange fire across the contested border. Both sides accuse the other of violating the cease-fire and claim to be shooting in response to attacks. An uptick in border skirmishes that began in late 2016 and continued into 2018  killed dozens and  displaced  thousands of civilians on both sides of the Line of Control.

In 2014, after India's then newly elected Prime Minister Modi  invited then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to attend his inauguration, there were hopes that Modi's government would pursue meaningful peace negotiations with Pakistan. However, after a brief period of optimism, relations turned sour once more in August 2014 when India  canceled talks with Pakistan's foreign minister after the Pakistani high commissioner in India met with Kashmiri separatist leaders. A series of openings continued throughout 2015, including an unscheduled December  meeting on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. This led to a  meeting between national security advisors in Bangkok a few days later, where the Kashmir dispute was discussed. Later in December, Prime Minister Modi made a surprise  visit  to Lahore to meet with Prime Minister Sharif, the first visit of an Indian leader to Pakistan in more than a decade.

Momentum toward meaningful talks came to an end in September 2016, when armed militants  attacked a remote Indian Army base in Uri, near the Line of Control, killing eighteen Indian soldiers in the deadliest attack on the Indian armed forces in decades. Indian officials  accused Jaish-e-Mohammad, a group with alleged ties to the Inter-Services Intelligence-Pakistan's main intelligence agency-of being behind the attack. Later in September 2016, the Indian military  announced  it had carried out "surgical strikes" on terrorist camps inside Pakistani-controlled territory across the Line of Control, while the Pakistani military denied that any such operation had taken place.

Militants launched attacks in October 2017, against an  Indian paramilitary camp near Srinagar, and in February 2018, against an  Indian army base in the Jammu region, which killed five soldiers and a civilian. These attacks came amidst a period of increased cross-border shelling along the Line of Control, with more than three thousand reported violations in 2017 and nearly one thousand in the first half of 2018. Violent demonstrations and anti-India  protests calling for an independent Kashmir also  continued; over three hundred people including civilians, Indian security forces, and militants were killed in attacks and clashes in 2017. After months of Indian military operations targeting both Kashmiri militants and demonstrations, India  announced in May 2018 that it would observe a cease-fire in Kashmir during the month of Ramadan for the first time in nearly two decades; operations  resumed in June 2018. In May 2018, India and Pakistan agreed to a  cease-fire along the disputed Kashmir border that would restore the terms of their  2003 agreement.

The diversion of jihadi fighters and proxy groups from Afghanistan to Kashmir threatens to further increase violence along the border. If another Mumbai 2008-style attack, where Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters rampaged through the city for four days, killing 164 people, were carried out by Pakistan's militant proxies, it could trigger a severe military confrontation between the two nuclear-armed states.

The United States has identified South Asia as an epicenter of terrorism and religious extremism and therefore has an interest in ensuring regional stability, preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, and minimizing the potential of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

With continued violence in Kashmir and a heightened threat of terrorist activity by Pakistan-based militant groups, tensions and concerns over a serious military confrontation between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan remain high. In August 2019, following a  deployment of tens of thousands of additional troops and paramilitary forces to the region, the Indian government moved to  revoke Article 370 of the Indian constitution, removing the  special status of Jammu and Kashmir. India-administered Kashmir remained under lockdown for over a year, with internet and phone services intermittently cut off and thousands of people detained. While India sold the move as a crucial step toward security and economic development, Kashmir has instead become more dangerous and economic investment has declined.

In February 2019, an  attack on a convoy of Indian paramilitary forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least forty soldiers. The attack, claimed by Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, was the  deadliest in Kashmir in three decades. Two weeks later, India claimed to have  conducted air strikes targeting a terrorist training camp inside Pakistani territory. Pakistan retaliated a day later with air strikes in Indian-administered Kashmir. The exchange escalated into an  aerial engagement, during which Pakistan shot down two Indian military aircraft and captured an Indian pilot; the pilot was  released  two days later.

Violence along the LOC peaked in 2020, with more than four thousand reported cross-border firings. India also observed an increase in militant recruitment, despite a slight drop in militant activity. However, tensions eased following a February 2021 ceasefire that has since held. Nonetheless, New Delhi continues efforts to bring Indian-administered Kashmir under its control. In 2022 and 2023, it cracked down on independent media in the region, redrew the electoral map to privilege Hindu-majority areas in Kashmir, and held a G20 tourism meeting in Srinagar. Targeted killings against Hindus have become more frequent, motivating some to flee and protest government policies

At the May 2023 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in India, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan traded barbs over Kashmir, missing an opportunity to improve relations. Furthermore, actions of the Pakistani military against Imran Khan in early 2023 have raised concerns that Pakistani political turmoil will fuel the arguments of Indian hardliners and hinder peace.

Separately, China has increasingly waded into the volatile region, stepping up its own border dispute with India. In 2020, clashes broke out in the Galwan Valley over territory in Ladakh, and another skirmish occurred in 2022 near the countries' Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh. The fighting has prompted more militarization in the region, as India fears the prospect of a two-front war with China and Pakistan.

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Conflict Between India and Pakistan | Global Conflict Tracker

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Learn about the history of India and Pakistan's territorial dispute over the Kashmir region and track the latest developments using the Center for Preventive Action's Global Conflict Tracker.

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Haitians are being forced to internally migrate due to violence in the country. This humanitarian crisis has uprooted the lives of more than 1,000,000 Haitians, and resulted in public services like healthcare collapsing. While efforts are being made to provide citizens with necessities, their futures are uncertain. (Unit 2, Cannon Thompson)

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Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 14 January 2024 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The latest data reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are struggling amidst an intensifying humanitarian crisis. Children bear the greatest burden of displacement, making up over half of the displaced population.

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New conflicts emerge as Syrians seek to escape brutal civil war.

Parth Patel - APHUG (Unit 3) Mrs. Musick

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Clashes erupt in Aleppo after hundreds flee through corridors opened by Syria’s government

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Clashes broke out Wednesday in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo after hundreds of people left two predominantly ethnic Kurdish neighborhoods when the military opened two corridors for civilians to leave the area that witnessed deadly violence a day earlier.