HAMAS LIKELY TO NAME NEW LEADER FROM OUTSIDE GAZA AFTER SINWAR’S DEATH

Sat 19 October 2024: The Palestinian group, Hamas, will likely replace Yahya Sinwar with a new political leader based outside Gaza while his brother – Mohammad Sinwar – is expected to assume a bigger role directing the war against Israel in the Territory, experts say. In its leadership deliberations, Hamas must consider not only the preferences of its main […]

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CANADA PUTS REMAINING INDIAN DIPLOMATS ‘ON NOTICE’ FOLLOWING EXPULSION OF SIX DIPLOMATS FOR THEIR “CRIMINAL ACTIONS”

Sat 19 October 2024: Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday put the last of India’s diplomats in the country “on notice” that Canada will not tolerate any more criminal activity on its territory. The warning follows the expulsion earlier this week of six Indian diplomats after Canada’s national police force said there is ample […]

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HOW DID ISRAEL KILL HAMAS LEADER YAHYA SINWAR? WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

Sat 19 October 2024: Israel and the US claim intelligence provided Sinwar’s whereabouts, but this is doubtful. On Thursday, news that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, 62, had been killed fighting a group of Israeli trainee soldiers who came upon him by chance first began to circulate. On Friday, Hamas confirmed his death while engaged in battle in […]

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LEBANON’S PM MIKATI SAYS HE REJECTS IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEBANESE MATTER

Fri 18 October 2024: Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has instructed the Foreign Minister to summon the Iranian Chargé d’Affaires in Beirut following reports that Tehran expressed readiness to negotiate over a UN resolution related to Lebanon. Lebanon’s caretaker PM Mikati said he rejected Iranian interference in a Lebanese matter, after the speaker of […]

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FAR RIGHT’S RISING INFLUENCE DRIVES TOUGHER EU MIGRATION POLICY

Fri 18 October 2024: The growing power of far-right parties in the European Union is increasingly reflected in the bloc’s approach to irregular migration, raising concerns among experts about potential violations of refugee rights, Anadolu Agency reports. The far right’s influence, already evident in the European Parliament (EP) elections last June, has kept migration at the forefront […]

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