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World Monthly Headline News September 2023
Supporters herald his love for journalism and credit him for saving British newspapers. Critics believe Murdoch debased rather than rescued the industry.
By Alexander Smith

LONDON — In July 1995, Tony Blair was so popular in Britain that he was considered prime minister-in-waiting a full two years before his crowning election. Yet, he still felt it necessary to fly 25 hours to the other side of the world to make his case to one man: Rupert Murdoch.

Blair’s trip to Hayman Island, an Australian resort off the Great Barrier Reef — and return to London the next day — is emblematic of the singular, and critics would say pernicious, sway Murdoch has held over leaders in Britain and in his native Australia for decades.

“I wouldn’t have been going all the way around the world” if it “hadn’t been a very deliberate and, again, very strategic decision that I was going to go and try and persuade them,” Blair told a 2012 public inquiry into media ethics, recalling his Hayman Island trip where he addressed the media mogul’s News Corp. conference. “The minimum objective was to stop them tearing us to pieces, and the maximum objective was, if possible, to open the way to support.”
CBS News

President Biden addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. He pushed for unity between nations amid global challenges. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports from outside the U.N.
By SAMY MAGDY

CAIRO (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city.

The startling death and devastation wreaked by Mediterranean storm Daniel pointed to the storm’s intensity, but also the vulnerability of a nation torn apart by chaos for more than a decade. The country is divided by rival governments, one in the east, the other in the west, and the result has been neglect of infrastructure in many areas.

Outside help was only just starting to reach Derna on Tuesday, more than 36 hours after the disaster struck. The floods damaged or destroyed many access roads to the coastal city of some 89,000.
Mohammed Tawfeeq Sharif Paget
By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Sharif Paget, Hamdi Alkhshali, Chris Lau, Teele Rebane and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN

CNN — More than 1,000 people have been killed after the deadliest earthquake in decades struck central Morocco, with rescuers digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas to find victims.

The 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range shortly after 11 p.m. local time on Friday at the relatively shallow depth of 18.5 kilometers (11.4 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with the epicenter located about 72 kilometers (44.7 miles) southwest of Marrakech, a city of some 840,000 people and a popular tourist destination.

At least 1,037 people were killed with more than 700 others in a critical condition, Morocco’s state TV Al Aoula said, citing the interior ministry.
The tech billionaire said Thursday that he had told his engineers not to turn on the Starlink satellite network over Crimea to prevent a planned attack on the Black Sea fleet last year.
By Yuliya Talmazan

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire from Ukraine after it emerged he thwarted a major attack on the Russian navy. According to excerpts published by CNN, a soon-to-be-released biography of the SpaceX CEO claims that Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his Starlink satellite network over Russian-occupied Crimea last year in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s naval fleet.

Musk was worried that the planned attack on the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet, which occurred early in the war, could escalate tensions and potentially lead to nuclear conflict, according to the extract from historian Walter Isaacson’s upcoming book.

The claim was immediately met with criticism from Kyiv. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blasted the tech billionaire on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk owns. “Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake,” Podolyak wrote.
Story by fdemott@insider.com (Filip De Mott)

Russia's war on Ukraine triggered a massive brain drain, and the toll it will take on the economy is coming into clearer focus. Since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion in February 2022, emigration out of Russia has exploded, with some estimates putting the exodus at 1 million people. A recent analysis from the policy platform Re: Russia narrowed the number to 817,000-922,000.

That's contributed to a record labor shortage, with 42% of industrial firms unable to find enough workers in July, up from 35% in April. The composition of Russia's exodus also points to the best and brightest fleeing the country. While a barrage of Western sanctions incentivized many to leave for economic reasons, others fled to avoid military service, skewing the numbers toward younger Russians. Workers under the age of 35 now account for less than 30% of the labor force, the lowest on record going back 20 years.
Israeli PM also orders plan to remove all African asylum seekers after protests by rival groups of Eritreans
Associated Press in Tel Aviv

The Israeli prime minister has said he wants Eritreans involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African asylum seekers.

The remarks on Sunday followed bloody protests by rival groups of Eritreans in south Tel Aviv the day before that left dozens of people injured. Eritreans, supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s government, faced off with construction lumber, pieces of metal and rocks, smashing shop windows and police cars. Israeli police in riot gear fired teargas, stun grenades and live rounds while officers on horseback tried to control the protesters.

The issue of immigration from Africa has long divided Israel and its resurgence comes as the country is torn over Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan, and supporters cite the issue as a reason why the courts should be reined in, saying they have stood in the way of pushing people out.

“We want harsh measures against the rioters, including the immediate deportation of those who took part,” the prime minister said in a special ministerial meeting called to deal with the aftermath of the violence. Netanyahu requested his ministers present him with plans “for the removal of all the other illegal infiltrators”, and noted in his remarks that the supreme court struck down some measures meant to coerce people to leave.
By Tom Balmforth

KYIV, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had decided to replace his defence minister, setting the stage for the biggest shake-up of Ukraine's defence establishment since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. In his nightly video address to the nation, Zelenskiy said he would dismiss Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov and would ask parliament this week to replace him with Rustem Umerov, head of the country's main privatisation fund.

Reznikov, defence minister since November 2021, has helped secure billions of dollars of Western military aid to help the war effort, but has been dogged by graft allegations surrounding his ministry that he has described as smears. The decision comes amid a crackdown on corruption in Ukraine that Zelenskiy has been keen to emphasize. Kyiv has applied to join the European Union and the public has become highly sensitive to corruption as the war rages with no end in sight.
by Ashok Sharma

India's moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India's space mission said. "The rover completes its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into sleep mode," with daylight on that part of the moon coming to an end, the Indian Space Research Organization said in a statement late Saturday.

The rover's payloads are turned off and the data it collected has been transmitted to the Earth via the lander, the statement said. The Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover were expected to operate only for one lunar day, which is equal to 14 days on Earth. ''Currently, the battery is fully charged. The solar panel is oriented to receive the light at the next sunrise expected on September 22, 2023. The receiver is kept on. Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments!" the statement said.
By Yolande Knell
BBC News, Jerusalem

Israel is considering tough steps including the immediate deportation of Eritrean asylum seekers involved in riots in Tel Aviv on Saturday. Some 170 people were injured in violent clashes with police and in-fighting between groups of supporters and opponents of the Eritrean regime.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "a red line" had been crossed. He also ordered a new plan to remove all African migrants that he described as "illegal infiltrators". Saturday's unprecedented disorder began after activists opposed to the Eritrean government said that they had asked Israeli authorities to cancel an event organised by their country's embassy.

They broke through a police barricade around the venue, which was then vandalised. Police in riot gear fired tear gas, stun grenades and live rounds as officers on horseback tried to push the protesters away. An investigation has been opened into whether the use of live fire was within the law. Israeli police - several dozen of whom were among the injured - said they felt their lives were at risk.
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