Sat 30 December 2023: Pakistan’s election body has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 parliamentary elections, with Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e Insaf (PTI) party accusing authorities of stopping most of its candidates from participating in the elections due in February. The 71-year-old former cricket star, who is serving a three-year prison […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Russia has devised an alternate plan to deal with the situation if the West tries to confiscate its frozen money through a “pseudo-legal” system that would violate the basic parameters of the international economy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, without disclosing countermeasures. “No US legal theory” concerning the confiscation […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees being deported from Pakistan and their uncertain fate are increasing daily and thousands of these people have been returned to Afghanistan empty-handed, the World Food Program (WFP) said. WFP published a video on Wednesday of an Afghan immigrant who, according to him, was deported […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: The Canary Mission creates a “blacklist” by labeling prominent individuals, including Jews opposing Israeli violence, as “anti-Semitic.” The network also utilizes Israeli intelligence. The data of an internet site named “Canary Mission,” which publishes profiles of academics and students supporting Palestine in U.S. universities, attempting to hinder their careers, is also […]
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Sat 30 December 2023: Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: South Africa said it has approached the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) under the Geneva convention with respect to acts committed by Israel in Gaza. In a statement, South Africa said it is ‘“gravely concerned with the plight of civilians” caught in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip “due to the indiscriminate use of […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: Former United States President Donald Trump has been kicked off the ballot for the 2024 presidential primary in Maine after a state official determined the Republican frontrunner is ineligible due to his support of insurrection. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, announced the decision to remove Trump from the […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from his right-wing coalition government amid sharp disagreements over the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is nearing its 90th day with no end in sight to the war or a deal for a pause in hostilities. Netanyahu cancelled a meeting of Israel’s war cabinet on […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: Global public debt climbed by 5.4% in 2023 to $97 trillion, with the US being the most indebted country with approximately $33 trillion of public debt, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Many governments around the world introduced large-scale fiscal stimulus programs to protect the labor market and […]
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Fri 29 December 2023: The real estate deal which gives an Australian-Israeli investor roughly 25 percent of the Old City’s Armenian quarter has sparked anger and concern among its residents. “The youth arrived in large numbers and positioned themselves in front of the bulldozers,” recalled resident Kegham Balian of the escalation last month. “The settlers […]
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