From the corridors of the United Nations to medical laboratories, the most prominent topics covered by British newspapers range from remarkable political transformations to promising medical developments.
We begin the first stop of the tour with an opinion in The Independent by international editor Chris Stevenson about the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations.
Stevenson said that this is not the first time that Netanyahu has ascended to the United Nations podium and "speaked in a loud rhetorical tone about his country's wars." But the writer wondered, “Could it be the last?”
The writer added that Netanyahu strongly denied the accusations against Israel of committing “genocide in Gaza,” and defended the American-Israeli strikes on Iran on the grounds that they were “carried out for the safety of the entire world.”
The writer pointed out that Netanyahu attacked every country or leader that criticized Israel, including Britain, France, and the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He said that the scene of “the image of a man revolting in the face of his political weakness” was completed with the withdrawal of delegates from the United Nations, pointing out that it is a usual scene during Netanyahu’s speech, but this time the withdrawal was broader.
The Independent newspaper's international affairs editor pointed out that Netanyahu's speech targeted only two audiences: the Israeli people and the United States. He said that the Israeli Prime Minister is more forced than before to rely on Israel's strongest allies as global support for him declines.
The writer continued, saying that the speech that Netanyahu delivered at the United Nations was “drafted for use in election announcements and events.”
He said that at this stage, Netanyahu "stands facing the world, and he is a brilliant political survivor, and this is one of the reasons why he has dominated Israeli politics for this period," according to Stevenson.
He added that Netanyahu's image as Israel's protector has been under scrutiny since the attacks of October 7, 2023. And that as the electoral battle in Israel approaches, the image of those delegates who left the United Nations hall (during Netanyahu's speech) will leave an impact on both the internal and external levels.
We turn to Al-Ghadrian and a comment by writer Steve Bloomfield about a move by the leaders of some countries to oppose the policies of Donald Trump, based on the United Nations speeches in the past two days.
Bloomfield said that the first day of the United Nations General Assembly witnessed the presentation of two competing visions about the future, highlighting the difference between the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron and the speech of US President Donald Trump.
The first (Macron) strongly defended international law, multilateralism, and the rules-based order, and the second (Trump) gave a speech that included military threats against a group of countries.
The writer said that the French President directly criticized Russia and Israel, but a large part of his speech was clearly directed at Trump.
Macron quoted a phrase from his speeches at the United Nations when he said: “They say that force is right... but we will not surrender.” “We cannot simply accept this new system of impunity that some are trying to establish... Do we want to live under the law of the jungle, or do we want to live in a civilized international community?”
The writer said that Macron's speech may leave a more lasting impact, and that the following days (of the United Nations meetings) witnessed a succession of what he described as leaders of the "middle powers" to defend the principles of the United Nations and to direct a veiled criticism of the American president. He mentioned among them the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
He said that a new group was established this week at the United Nations after Norway and Finland launched a call to establish an international body to supervise the safety of artificial intelligence models, and the writer saw this as a direct challenge to Trump.
He pointed out that 27 leaders had joined the initiative, wondering whether the British Prime Minister would join it or reject it.
We conclude our tour of British newspapers with a medical report published by “The Herald” newspaper about a new study on the possibility of reducing the recurrence rate of some types of brain cancer by half, when exposed to radiation therapy after surgery.
The newspaper reported that “atypical meningioma,” a type of brain tumor, grows again in 50 percent of cases within five years of surgery.
But the newspaper presented some of what was revealed by a new study led by experts from the Walton Center Foundation of the National Health Service and the University of Liverpool, which revealed the possibility of reducing this risk using radiotherapy after surgery.
The scientific journal "The Lancet" published the study that was presented to the European Society of Neuro-Oncology, and it is the first to compare giving patients radiation therapy after completely removing the tumor during surgery, and active monitoring to see if the cancer will return.
