War Terrorism & Unrest
Rushdi Abualouf, Gaza correspondent and Patrick Jackson Five Palestinians were killed, including two children, and several wounded when Israeli aircraft struck tents for displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to medics at the Kuwait Field Hospital. The strikes hit Gaza’s coastal al-Mawasi area. Medical teams said the dead were two women aged 46 and
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Israel has announced it will open the key Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the coming days to allow Palestinians to leave the territory. Israeli military body Cogat said exits would be “facilitated through co-ordination with Egypt, following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission”. It added that
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Nick Beake, Europe correspondent and Bruno Boelpaep, Additional reporting AFP Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever has written to the European Commission chief warning that the EU’s plan is “fundamentally wrong” Belgium has accused the EU of “downplaying” its concerns over a plan to use frozen Russian assets held in Europe to support Ukraine. “We
Read MoreIn yet another sign of deepening Russia-China ties on all levels, which has also included cooperation on the military front in the context of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Monday temporarily lifting visa requirements for visitors from China. Chinese travelers can now enter Russia without a visa for up
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Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent, Bnei Brak EPA The push to conscript more ultra-Orthodox men triggered a huge protest in Jerusalem last month An impending crisis over conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli army is threatening to undermine Israel’s government and split the country. Public opinion on the issue has shifted dramatically in Israel after
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Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov declared that his nation will become a “sovereign AI state” after partnering with Nvidia to create the world’s first government development LLM project by 2030. Mykhailo stated that Ukraine plans to move from a “digital state” to an “agentic state” where AI actively delivers services across government while
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in another proxy war. The Association of Tour Operators of Russia confirmed that the government is sending flights to Venezuela to remove nationals immediately. Tourism from Russia to Venezuela has grown in recent years, with over 6,000 Russians visiting Margarita Island between August and November this year. Moscow
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Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, Kyiv Watch: Escaping Ukraine’s war-ravaged Donbas region. Trains no longer run to Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region – part of the Donbas claimed in its entirety by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. It’s another sign of the steady Russian advance. Instead, the last station is now on the western side of the Donetsk
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It is a characteristic of our decadent intelligentsia – the regime, the new elite, the cathedral, the Establishment, call them what you will – that they speak of Great and Important things, but in doing so reveal themselves to hardly think at all. One of the Great and Important things they like to talk about is something which
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Pope Leo XIV led a silent prayer at the site of the Beirut port explosion and demanded justice for its victims, as he wrapped up his three-day visit to Lebanon. He also met some relatives of the 218 people who were killed by the massive blast on 4 August 2020, which devastated a large part
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