Sat 30 March 2024: The United States has greenlighted the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel, The Washington Post reported, even as it publicly expresses concerns about the long-threatened Israeli invasion of Gaza’s Rafah and the rising civilian casualties in the enclave. The new arms package includes more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound […]
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Fri 29 March 2024: Russia’s foreign ministry denounced Israel for its deadly air raids on Syria, calling it a breach of the country’s sovereignty. Such attacks are “fraught with extremely dangerous consequences”, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. The attack on Syria’s Aleppo province is Israel’s deadliest in months, killing at least 42 people including […]
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Fri 29 March 2024: No decision has been made on the movement of US forces from Niger, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. “There’s been no decisions made at this stage on the movement of US forces,” Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters when asked about the future of US troops in the West African country. […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: Four school boards in Ontario have filed a $4.5 billion lawsuit against Snapchat, TikTok, and Meta. According to a local news source, school boards claim that these social networking sites cause harm to pupils, disrupt their education, and negatively impact their mental health, leaving teachers to “manage the fallout.” Neinstein LLP […]
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Fri 29 March 2024: 45 of the 46 people on board a bus died when it fell off a bridge and into a ravine in South Africa, according to the Department of Transport. Following the crash on Thursday, the lone survivor, an eight-year-old girl, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. About 300 kilometers […]
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File Photo: U.S. soldiers stand next to a Patriot anti-missile battery (not seen) west of Jerusalem, during “Austere Challenge 2012”, a joint Israeli-hosted exercise October 23, 2012. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Fri 29 March 2024: The Pentagon is in early “conversations” on potential plans to fund a peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip, Politico reports, citing […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that France would help Brazil develop nuclear technology for submarines, crucial assistance which has been a sensitive topic between the two nations. “I want us to open the chapter for new submarines … that we look nuclear propulsion in the face while being perfectly respectful of […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: On Thursday, March 28, Sam Bankman-Fried, a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency industry and the creator and CEO of FTX, an exchange for bitcoin derivatives, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Known in the cryptocurrency world for his trading prowess, Bankman-Fried found himself embroiled in a scandal and was recently […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: The International Court of Justice issued new provisional measures on Gaza as part of the case brought by South Africa on the prevention of genocide, indicating that Israel must submit a report to the court on “all measures taken” to abide by the order within a month. ICJ adopted unanimously an order requesting […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: Russia sees the US’s focus on Daesh/ISIS being responsible for last week’s attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the Moscow region as an attempt to shift attention from something else, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. Speaking in an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia, Peskov said it […]
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