Category: International

“I lived between despair and hope that my daughter might still be alive,” she explained. “Months later, we heard in the news that premature infants had died in Shifa. I would look at the photos, trying to feel, as a mother, whether this could be my child or not.”

As a prominent labour organiser, Chavez helped lead a major strike against Delano grape growers in the 1960s, which sparked boycotts across the country, in order to gain better wages and conditions for workers. His mantra, “si, se puede” – which means “yes, we can” in Spanish – has been adopted by activists and politicians who came after him, and was even used by Barack Obama’s presidential campaign during his first run for office.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the US and Israel struck Iran in late February has sent shockwaves across the globe, with oil prices soaring and shipping disrupted.

Nearly 90% of the oil and gas that passes through the strait is bound for Asian countries – but that has all but stopped since the start of the war.

The BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head reports from Myanmar, where drivers have been facing long queues outside petrol stations to fill up their vehicles.

Military-backed authorities in the country, which has been engulfed by civil war since May 2021, have also brought in an alternate day policy for private vehicles and limited fuel consumption to only 35 litres a week.

A member of Ben-Gvir’s party, Limor Son-Har-Melech, who survived an attack by Palestinian gunmen in which her husband was killed, argued that the law was necessary, citing the example of how one of her husband’s killers was later released and went on to take part in the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel.