Sat 16 November 2024: The Ukrainian president said on Friday US President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration could help bring the war with Russia to a faster conclusion, state news agency Ukrinform reported. In an interview with public broadcaster Suspilne, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed Ukraine-US relations and reflected on past conversations with Trump about resolving the conflict, which continues since 2022. […]
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Daughter of the late slain civil rights leader Malcolm X Ilyasah Shabazz. Sat 16 November 2024: The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100-million federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department of allowing his murder to […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held on Friday their first phone conversation since December 2022, and discussed prospects for resolving the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. Initiated by the German side, the discussion included “a detailed and candid exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine,” according to the […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people. New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people marched through the town of Rotorua in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill on […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will work hard to end the Russia-Ukraine war. “We’re going to work on the Middle East, and we’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It’s gotta stop. Russia and Ukraine’s gotta stop,” Trump said at a gala for the […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: An isolationist in a role critical for US-backed wars, Gabbard’s positions on Iran, Russia, Syria and India will be watched. United States President-elect Donald Trump has named Tulsi Gabbard as his director of national intelligence. The Republican Party leader named the former Democratic congresswoman as part of a series of appointments to cabinet and other key […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: New Zealand had a net migration gain of 44,900 in the September 2024 year, continuing to fall from the provisional peak of 136,300 in the October 2023 year, according to the statistics department Stats NZ on Wednesday. The fall in net migration reflects that arrivals are down, and departures are up, […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that negotiations for a global pandemic treaty will continue into 2025, with the goal of concluding by May. “Member states agreed we need to conclude the agreement as soon as possible and continue negotiations into 2025 with the goal of concluding the agreement by the next WHA (World Health […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: A Canadian court has decided that the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status will not be reinstated, for now. An extensive audit laid bare the Canadian organisation’s links to Israeli occupation in Palestine. The JNF unsuccessfully appealed to the Federal Court. Justice Allyson Whyte Nowak last week turned them away, saying they […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population, who make up a majority of the survivors of state care, are unhappy with PM Luxon’s apology. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday made an unprecedented formal and “unreserved” apology to survivors of abuse in state and church care over seven decades, spanning almost the entirety […]
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