Thu 22 February 2024: The Israeli military’s top lawyer has issued an unprecedented warning to troops against “improper conduct” in Gaza which includes the unjustified use of force and looting among other “criminal” actions. Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the military advocate general, issued the warning in a letter on Wednesday, as reported by the Haaretz newspaper, saying it […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny may have been killed with a single punch to the heart, a “hallmark of the KGB,” according to a human rights activist claiming to have insider intel. The Kremlin’s fiercest critic was found with bruising on his head and chest consistent with the “one-punch” technique, Vladimir […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: Israeli lawmakers have voted to back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of any “unilateral” recognition of a Palestinian state as international calls have grown for the revival of Palestinian statehood negotiations. Wednesday’s symbolic declaration, issued during Israel’s war on Gaza, also received backing from members of the opposition with 99 of […]
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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his family walk through a tunnel under Khan Younis (Screen grab IDF) Wed 21 February 2024: On Tuesday, a Saudi-owned news site reported that security officials believed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, had crossed to Egypt through a vast network of tunnels beneath the border. However, […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified. In fact, for four years before his attack, Tarrant had been posting anonymously but publicly on the […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu denied the allegations made by the US Wed 21 February 2024: Declaring that Moscow does not want to use nuclear weapons in space, Russian President Vladimir Putin asserts that his nation has merely developed space capabilities that are comparable to those of the […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: South Africa will hold national and provincial elections on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has said. Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is expected to face a tough challenge to retain its parliamentary majority in the country’s seventh democratic election since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: The UN Secretary-General is to begin consultations on the appointment of a UN envoy to coordinate engagement between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and the international community, he said on Monday. Antonio Guterres told a press conference that Taliban representatives did not accept an invitation to a meeting of international envoys to Afghanistan […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: Amid growing relations between Moscow and Pyongyang, Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted a car to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported on Tuesday. The Russian-made car is for “personal use” of Kim, the Pyongyang-based KCNA reported. It said the gift was delivered by the Russian side to North Korean […]
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Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli attack wail in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah Photo: Ali Jadallah. Tue 20 February 2024: Palestinian women and girls held in Israeli detention are “being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers”, raped and “allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food,” UN experts […]
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