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<article data-history-node-id="448117" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/turkeys-erdogan-laments-palestinian-presidents-absence-un-meeting-calls" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/turkeys-erdogan-laments-palestinian-presidents-absence-un-meeting-calls" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Turkey's Erdogan laments Palestinian president's absence from UN meeting, calls Gaza 'the most inhuman and shameful concentration camp of our time'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed concern over the absence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who was unable to travel to New York for the UN assembly because the US&nbsp;rejected&nbsp;his visa application.</p> <p>“This injustice against our Palestinian brothers and sisters deeply offends the conscience of humanity,” Erdogan told the UN&nbsp;General Assembly on Tuesday.</p> <p>Erdogan also condemned the situation in Gaza, saying "nobody with a conscience can close their eyes" to what was happening there.</p> <p>“The people of Gaza are still searching for their loved ones under the rubble,” Erdogan said, after three years of what he called Israeli "state terror".</p> <p>He added that Gaza has become “the most inhuman and shameful concentration camp of our time”, calling it "the world’s largest graveyard for children" and "the place with the highest rate of child amputations in the world".</p> </div> </div> </article>

Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to talk to a human”, Citizens Advice has urged essential service providers, as research found they wasted time, caused stress and delayed problem solving for more than half of users. The spread of the AI-powered systems to provide help about the provision of vital services such as energy, banking, phones and internet, is making it harder for millions of already digitally excluded people to handle snags, according to the frontline charity that last year provided more than 2.7 million people with one-on-one help in England and Wales. Continue reading...