Judges take their seats prior to the hearing of Israel’s defense at the International Court of Justice on Jan. 12, 2024. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images Mon 22 January 2024: – Decision on South Africa’s request for provisional measures ‘could be expected in February, if not before,’ Italian lawyer Tiersisto Mariniello tells Anadolu – Decision […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: The Palestinian death toll in Israel’s assault on Gaza has surpassed 25,000, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory. Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said on Sunday that 178 people had been confirmed killed in the previous 24 hours, with the death toll in more than three months of Israel’s […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Thursday that an ammunition shortage is preventing Kyiv from winning on the battlefield. “The shortage of ammunition and shell starvation is a very urgent problem that our armed forces are currently facing,” Umerov said at the opening of a conference in Paris on the creation of an artillery coalition […]
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Indian PM Modi at a temple. Photo: X/@narendramodi Sun 21 January 2024: That the January 22 event at the under-construction Ayodhya Ram temple – built on the site where the Babri Masjid was destroyed by Hindutva groups – is being politicised by the Bharatiya Janata Party is for all to see. But the extent […]
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un 21 January 2024: Farmers in Germany seeking sustainable agriculture, demonstrated Saturday with tractors in front of the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD in Berlin. The farmers are opposed to the government’s plan to remove agricultural diesel subsidies. Hundreds of demonstrators, led by the coalition of SPD with the Greens and the Free […]
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Sun 21 January 2024: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has reported that 20,000 children have been born in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its devastating genocidal war on 7 October, 2023, as conveyed by UNICEF communications expert Tess Ingram, in a statement in Geneva, Switzerland. Ingram said that over the 105 […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: Russian media claimed on Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “made a difficult decision” to fire Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. The Russian daily MK.ru claimed, citing sources in Ukraine that Saturday’s meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine prompted Zelenskyy to reshuffle military and law enforcement ranks. According to […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in November donated $95,000 to Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, after he pushed through a $14bn aid package for Israel, the Intercept reports. The news organisation’s analysis of the Federal Election Commission records also shows that AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: More than 50,000 people have staged a demonstration against rising extremism, xenophobia and racism in Germany’s major northern port city of Hamburg. The rally, called “Hamburg is rising against far-right extremism and Neo-Nazi networks,” took to the streets on Friday. Thousands rally against rising far-right extremism, racism in Germany The rally, […]
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Sat 20 January 2024: In a recent report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), experts suggest that the eradication of gender inequality from the world could take as long as 169 years. The report highlights a concerning deterioration in the global situation of gender inequality compared to estimates from 2019. Initially, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
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