Tue 09 January 2024: An Islamic State group attack killed at least 14 soldiers aboard a military bus in the Syrian desert Tuesday, a war monitor said, in the second such attack this year. “At least 14 members of the regime forces were killed” and several others wounded “in a bloody IS attack on a […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Iran’s trade and supply of oil to China has stalled after Tehran reportedly decided to withhold shipments, demanding higher prices from Beijing. According to the Reuters news agency, citing five traders who handle Iranian oil supplies or are familiar with the transactions, Iranian sellers told Chinese buyers early last month that they were […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, seeking to woo partners for a coalition government after the Nov. 22 elections in the Netherlands, has withdrawn an anti-Islamic bill, local media reported on Monday. Wilders sent a letter to Martin Bosma, head of the lower house of the parliament, seeking to withdraw a 2018 […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: The South Korean parliament on Tuesday passed a law to ban trade of dog meat by 2027. There were 208 votes in favor and two abstentions for the bill, which bans the breeding, butchering, distributing and selling of dogs for meat, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. “This is history in the making,” […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: The Israeli army did not claim to have destroyed Hamas’s forces, but rather to have eliminated its ‘senior commanders’. The Israeli army has announced it will scale down its operations in northern Gaza after it “dismantled” Hamas in the area. According to the Israeli military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: China announced Monday that it arrested a foreigner accused of supplying intelligence to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). According to the Beijing-based daily Global Times, the country’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) initiated “criminal measures” against the alleged spy, who ran a foreign consultancy. It identified the person just as […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: Pope Francis called Monday for a global ban on surrogacy, calling the practice “deplorable.” “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract. Consequently, I express my hope for an effort by the international community to prohibit this practice universally,” he told ambassadors accredited to the […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Palestinian civilians must be able to return home and rejected statements by Israeli officials calling for the mass displacement of Gaza residents. Speaking at a press conference in Doha on Sunday alongside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Blinken said […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: An online petition to expel the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, for her support for “destroying” Gaza has now gathered more than 100,000 signatures. The Change.org petition, filed less than a month ago, says the role of political envoys is to foster good relations between countries, and they must face […]
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Mon 08 January 2024: Questions raised over official turnout of 40 percent after opposition boycott call and reports of empty polling stations. Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sheikh Hasina has secured her fifth term as Bangladeshi prime minister in an election whose outcome was decided the moment its schedule was announced in early November when the main opposition boycotted […]
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