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Akira Toriyama pictured in 1982. Photo: JIJI PRESS / EPA / NTB

Akira Toriyama, the creator of the popular cartoon and TV series Dragon Ball, has died.

Friday 8 March at 09:02

The death was announced by Dragon Ball Z’s official account on X on Thursday.

According to the statement, Toriyama died of acute subdural hematoma, a medical condition in which blood collects under the outer layer of the brain, a condition in which blood collects between the brain and the surface of the brain, writes People.

He died on March 1, aged 68.

Toriyama “still had several works” he was working on when he died, the statement said. The family asks for privacy during the mourning period and requests that no flowers or gifts be sent.

Dragon Ball books at the book fair in Paris in 2019. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP / NTB

Dragon Ball Z debuted in the 1980s in Japan, and became very popular in the United States as well. Toriyama also worked on the Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger video game series. He started his career at the age of 23.

One of Toriyama’s latest projects was the upcoming Dragon Ball Z spinoff series Dragon Ball Daima, which follows well-known characters such as Goku and Vegeta.

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2024-03-08 08:00:19
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Children are dying of hunger in Gaza. It is totally unacceptable.

QUEUE FOR FOOD: Children in Gaza wait for food. The photo was taken in Rafah, on Tuesday this week. Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP / NTB Wednesday 6 March at 10:18

It is disheartening to receive the news of increasingly worse conditions in Gaza.

Children die from malnutrition. The WHO announced at the weekend that ten children are said to have died from a lack of food in hospitals in northern Gaza.

If many in this country have a feeling of powerlessness, it is worse in the hospitals in Gaza.

But some have the power to prevent children from dying from lack of food. Containers with life-saving contents are ready at the border, a few kilometers away from where the need is greatest.

Drawing: Roar Hagen / VG

Explanations for why the emergency aid does not reach those who need it are rife. But both parties, both Israel and Hamas, are responsible for the suffering we are witnessing.

The fact that the US has resorted to airdrops to get food in is a sign of how desperate the situation is: Airdrops are an extremely ineffective way of providing emergency aid.

Emergency aid does not reach those who desperately need it.

The only thing that can really help the situation is a truce between the two parties. They have to relax their invariable demands, which are now preventing a necessary pause in the warfare.

Israel must stop the excessive use of force. Hamas must release the remaining hostages. To mention something.

The US can rightly be criticized for not having put greater pressure on Israel before. Now there are more and more signals that patience is over.

Palestinian children receive food in Rafah, southern Gaza, this week. Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters / NTB

On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris described the situation in Gaza as a humanitarian disaster, which Israel is not doing enough to stop. She demanded an immediate ceasefire.

It is in particular Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the American authorities have lost confidence in. It was another member of Israel’s war cabinet, Benny Gantz, who was invited to talks in Washington this week.

Because Netanyahu is clearly not listening, and his narcissistic rule is harmful to Israel.

Hamas, for its part, is doing far from everything it can to ensure the Palestinians the help they need. The well-being of the Palestinians is obviously subordinate to the extremist political goals of Hamas.

Those with whom Israel is negotiating a ceasefire were behind a brutal terrorist attack. The documentation of the gross assaults that were committed on 7 October last year is getting stronger.

It is hoped that an increasingly harsh tone from Washington will help.

But the situation in the Gaza Strip is becoming more acute with each passing day.

Negotiations on a ceasefire are dragging on.

In the meantime, Israel now has a special responsibility to ensure that more emergency aid arrives.

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2024-03-06 09:18:46
#Children #dying #hunger #Gaza #totally #unacceptable

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of the month. Now he has arrived in Puerto Rico, according to a news agency. Photo: Andrew Kasuku / AP / NTB

Many have wondered where Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been while gangs have been ravaging the country. He has landed in Puerto Rico, at the same time as a powerful gang leader delivers a powerful warning.

Wednesday 6 March at 03:54

An official who speaks anonymously tells the AP news agency that late on Tuesday afternoon Henry landed at Luiz Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan.

At the same time, the powerful gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherisier comes with a strong warning:

– If Ariel Henry does not resign, if the international community continues to support him, we are headed straight for civil war which will lead to genocide.

GANG LEADER: Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherisier. Photo: Ralph Tedy Erol / Reuters / NTB

The prime minister’s arrival is confirmed by Sheila Anglero, spokeswoman for the governor of Puerto Rico.

– He landed in Puerto Rico, but I have no further details. I don’t know if he’s still in Puerto Rico. It was only confirmed to me a while ago that he had landed here, says Anglero to the AFP news agency.

Also read: Gangs try to take control of airport in Haiti

The Haitian Prime Minister was expected to travel to the Dominican Republic later, then fly to Haiti. But because of the gang violence in Haiti, the Dominican Republic’s authorities have closed the airspace to the neighboring country. The two countries are both located on the Caribbean island of Hispanola, and Puerto Rico is the neighboring island to the east.

The wave of violence in Haiti broke out when Henry was away. Doubts were raised about his whereabouts after he first traveled to Kenya to sign an agreement to lead an international force to combat the increasingly powerful gangs in Haiti.

2024-03-06 01:28:37
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