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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Sat 19 October 2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the global gross domestic product (GDP) share of BRICS countries already exceeds the indicator of the G7 and continues to grow. Putin, at a plenary session of the BRICS economic grouping in Moscow, compared the changes in the share in the global GDP between […]
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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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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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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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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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Fri 18 October 2024: Hamas today confirmed that its chief, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in fighting in Gaza, a statement issued on the group’s social media channels said. “Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya announces the martyrdom of the great leader, President of the Hamas Political Bureau, the hero of Al-Aqsa Flood, Yahya Sinwar, who sought martyrdom […]
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Fri 18 October 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said that almost everyone in the Gaza Strip is going hungry, calling this situation “inhumane.” “@WHO calls for immediate access for all humanitarian aid, starting with food and medicine for severely malnourished children, who need to be treated urgently,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. […]
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Fri 18 October 2024: Russia is preparing to take a bold step in the financial world by conducting its first experimental international payment using cryptocurrency before the end of 2024. This announcement came from Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Russian central bank, during a press conference in Moscow. While discussing the experiment, Nabiullina emphasized […]
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Thu 17 October 2024: An Israeli security official has told AFP news agency that the military was conducting a DNA test on a fighter’s body to confirm whether it was Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reporting from Amman, Jordan We’re now hearing more through leaks in Israeli media. There was an incident […]
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