Fri 14 May 2021: In a statement on Twitter, the Israel Defense Forces said military forces are attacking Gaza. IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip. — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 13, 2021 Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from southern Israel, described sounds of artillery being fired into Gaza and machine-gun fire […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: France’s interior minister asked police to ban a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris this weekend over the conflict with Israel fearing a repeat of clashes during a similar situation in 2014. Earlier on Thursday, a peaceful rally in support of Palestine was held in Paris’s Place de la Republique. It involved several […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Thursday that he was paid a “generous amount” of money to lobby for the now collapsed financial firm Greensill Capital, but refused to put a figure on his annual salary. “I was paid an annual amount, a generous annual amount, far more than […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: The Nobel Committee has included Russian President Vladimir Putin in the list of candidates for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which currently comprises 286 people, Russian writer Sergey Komkov, who nominated Putin for the prize, told Sputnik. The writer said that he sent a related application to the Nobel Committee in […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a survey published on Thursday showed. The results also suggested a strong link between vaccine hesitancy and the use of social media, particularly where social media is […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: Muslim countries must show a united and clear stance over Israel’s conflict with the Palestine, Turkey’s vice president, Fuat Oktay, said on Thursday, criticising world powers for condemning violence without acting. “What we desire is that active measures are taken,” Oktay told reporters after morning prayers marking the end of the […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: While the number of COVID-19 cases has been steadily increasing, South Africa has not hit the third wave yet. According to the Department of Health, the number of new infections peaked from 8 593 cases between 26 April to 2 May. Between 3 May and 9 May, cases rose to 12 […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Thursday said its forces had launched 12 ballistic missiles and drones towards a site belonging to the Saudi state oil company Saudi Aramco, Najran airport and other targets in Najran, in southern Saudi Arabia. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces in Yemen said it had intercepted […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: India has confirmed 362,727 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 23,703,665, the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday. The death toll from the disease has reached 258,317 people, with 4,120 new fatalities being recorded […]
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Wed 12 May 2021: The US blocked the UN Security Council from issuing a statement regarding dramatically escalating violence in Israel and Palestine on Wednesday. The nixed statement followed a second council briefing from the UN’s Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Tor Wennesland. It “expressed deep concern about the latest situation in Gaza, and called […]
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