Mon 25 December 2023: International Cricket Council (ICC) stopped Usman Khawaja’s latest attempt to show his support for human rights awareness on Sunday, December 24. The Australian cricketer displayed a ‘peace symbol’ on his shoes and bat during the training session at Melbourne Cricket Ground ahead of the upcoming Boxing Day Test against Pakistan but was denied […]
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A hairdresser in Jerusalem holds a copy of Israel Today with a blacked-out front page. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA Mon 25 December 2023: An exclusive report by The Intercept says a document it obtained shows the Israeli military is banning reporting in Israel about eight subjects, including weapons used by the army, security cabinet leaks, and stories […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: Denmark’s Maersk is preparing to resume shipping operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, citing the deployment of a US-led military operation designed to ensure the safety of commerce in the area. The shipping giant paused sending vessels through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait earlier in December because of […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: The sale of a 25% share by Manchester United to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the wealthy British petrochemicals entrepreneur, has been confirmed. United supporters, who feel the team has been deprived of funding under the Glazer family’s ownership, will probably applaud the sale. Sir Jim has agreed to buy a 25% stake […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to continue the Gaza war despite its “very heavy price” on the army. “This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza,” Netanyahu said during a Cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv. The Israeli army said Sunday that 14 soldiers […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: Ukraine will formally mark Christmas Day on December 25 this year, in a symbolic shift away from Russia, which celebrates the holiday on January 7. It will be the first time in more than a century that Ukraine observes the date in line with the Gregorian calendar, along with most of […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: This is the second time the Russian envoy to Tehran is being summoned over the same issue. Tehran, Iran – Iran has once more summoned the Russian envoy to Tehran after Moscow signed another joint statement with Arab nations calling for negotiations over three disputed islands that the United Arab Emirates claims […]
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Sun 24 December 2023: United States President Joe Biden says he did not ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in a telephone call between the two leaders. “I had a long talk with Netanyahu today [Saturday] and it was a private conversation,” Biden […]
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Sat 23 December 2023: Last week, reports emerged that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are using an artificial intelligence (AI) system called Habsora (Hebrew for “The Gospel”) to select targets in the war on Hamas in Gaza. The system has reportedly been used to find more targets for bombing, to link locations to Hamas operatives, and to estimate […]
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Sat 23 December 2023: About 4 billion people are at risk of becoming infected with the dengue virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. Diana Rojas Alvarez, the team lead on arboviruses – epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention department at the WHO’s emergencies program, told a UN briefing in Geneva that over […]
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