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Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security situation following Israel’s withdrawal from parts of the territory.

Reports of violence have been shared widely on social media channels, with one particularly gruesome video that was shared by Hamas-affiliated channels showing a group of masked fighters, some of whom are wearing green Hamas headbands, killing eight blindfolded people in a square in Gaza City while large crowds are watching, a possible sign of the brutality Hamas is using to reassert itself as the security force.

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Household savings rose by 2.96 trillion yuan ($415.5 billion) in September, the most since March

The renewed build-up of savings may deprive the stock market of a key source of support

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Sydney (AFP) – Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate change.

The world's rainforests are typically thought of as crucial "carbon sinks" -- sucking huge quantities of planet-heating emissions from the atmosphere.

Some models predict that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could boost forest growth by offering trees more of the basic fuel they need for photosynthesis.

But new research found extreme temperatures have instead caused more forest death than growth, with rainforests in Australia's northern tropics becoming net carbon emitters.

"This is the first analysis to show this pattern occurring for natural undisturbed forest and as a persistent pattern over many years," senior author of the research Patrick Meir told AFP, describing the results as "very concerning".

The researchers pored through records charting the growth of Queensland's rainforests over almost 50 years.

They found that around the year 2000 they began emitting more carbon dioxide from the decay of dead trees than was being taken in and stored by growing trunks and branches.

Modelling showed the main cause was extreme temperatures linked to climate change, and its related effects on the moisture in the atmosphere and drought. Cyclones, which are expected to increase in intensity with climate change, also had an impact.

The findings are in line with some research on the Amazon that showed growing tree deaths weakening the forest's carbon storage capacity, said David Bauman, a research scientist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development and second author of the study.

"So in that sense our result is not surprising, but the timing... happened earlier than we expected and the effects of the likely climatic drivers (high temperature, drought) are stronger than we expected," he told AFP.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, suggests other rainforests could experience the same shift, but the authors warned more data and research was needed.

"It appears that all tropical forests are likely to respond fairly similarly," said Meir, but "the exact mechanisms and timings for different regions will differ."

The findings should ring alarm bells, said Melanie Zeppel, an expert on forest carbon who was not involved in the study.

"This study shows that impacts of climate change on forest carbon are more severe than previously reported," said Zeppel, associate director at climate change investment firm Pollination.

"Immediate action on climate change must be a key priority," she told AFP.

The study's authors cautioned that some unknowns remain.

Their work focused on branches and tree trunks, but roots and soil also play a role in carbon absorption and emission which has not yet been fully quantified.

Still, the patterns observed are clear, and "indicate that the challenge to limit global warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius has become both more urgent and more difficult," said Bauman.

Despite its growing vulnerability to climate-linked natural disasters, Australia remains one of the world's biggest exporters of gas and thermal coal.

Australia's carbon dioxide emissions per person are among the highest in the world, World Bank figures show.

Global emissions have been rising but need to be almost halved by the end of the decade to limit warming to safer levels agreed under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the biggest ever recorded, the United Nations said this week.

Nairobi (AFP) – Dozens were injured, many seriously, at the state funeral of Kenya's revered opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday as crowds rushed to see his coffin, AFP journalists saw.

It came a day after at least three people were killed when security forces opened fire to disperse a crowd that had gathered to see Odinga's body in a separate ceremony.

The 80-year-old died from a suspected heart attack at a health clinic in southern India on Wednesday, triggering a huge outpouring of grief for a man known affectionately as "Baba" (father) by many Kenyans.

"He walked among us as a man but also charged among us as a movement for change, a movement for justice... for a better and greater Kenya," President William Ruto told the crowd gathered at Nairobi's Nyayo stadium for the funeral on Friday.

Moments later, a surge of mourners trying to reach the coffin on the pitch left dozens injured.

AFP journalists saw many had collapsed, some had broken bones or difficulty breathing after being crushed, with at least five ambulances on the pitch to help those hurt.

Arguably the most important political figure of his generation in Kenya, Odinga served as prime minister from 2008 to 2013 but never succeeded in winning the presidency despite five attempts.

But he outlasted many rivals and is credited as a major player in returning Kenya to multi-party democracy in the 1990s and overseeing the widely praised constitution of 2010.

"I have freedom of speech because of Raila... I'm here because he is the father," said Paul Oloo, a supporter at the funeral.

There were also chaotic scenes a day earlier as Odinga's body was repatriated from India and taken to another stadium on the outskirts of Nairobi to be viewed by supporters.

As huge crowds surged towards a VIP gate, security forces opened fire, killing at least three people, according to prominent rights group VOCAL Africa based on information from the city morgue.

It was not clear if the security forces fired directly into the crowd or used live rounds. Autopsies are due on Tuesday.

AFP met families of the victims at the city morgue on Friday and saw photos of the bodies that appeared to show bullet wounds.

"He was not disorderly in any way but he was shot," said the brother-in-law of one victim, Vincent Otieno Ogutu.

Another victim was named as Evans Kiche. The third has yet to be identified.

"The excessive use of force against mourners is totally unwarranted," said Hussein Khalid, head of VOCAL Africa, at the morgue.

"We are calling on the police to exercise utmost restraint... We don't want to see more deaths associated with this funeral," he added.

His death leaves a leadership vacuum in the opposition, with no obvious successor as Kenya heads into a potentially volatile election in 2027.