Sat 09 December 2023: Occupied West Bank — On December 2, Eman Nafii was one of dozens of Palestinians invited to meet Prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court in the occupied West Bank. As the wife of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israel, Nafi wanted to speak to Khan about her husband and the […]
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Sat 09 December 2023: Israel has no plans to evacuate the residents of the Gaza Strip towards the Egyptian border, state media claimed on Saturday. “The relationship between Israel and Egypt is strategic and important, and the two countries are cooperating to prevent masses of Palestinians in Gaza from storming the border into Sinai,” an […]
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Sat 09 December 2023: European Union policymakers have agreed on landmark legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), paving the way for the most ambitious set of standards yet to control the use of the game-changing technology. The agreement to support the “AI Act” on Friday came after nearly 38 hours of negotiations between lawmakers and […]
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Sat 09 December 2023: The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is “worsening” as it faces the “world’s largest displacement crisis,” the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the country said on Friday. In the past eight months, the fighting has spread from Khartoum to several states across the country, Mohammad Taufiq Mashal told a UN press […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: Oil prices increased on Friday after investors profited from six-month-low prices and a joint call from Russia and Saudi Arabia to OPEC+ members “to adhere to the OPEC+ agreement” to support global economic growth. International benchmark crude Brent traded at $75.56 per barrel at 10.25 a.m. local time (0725 GMT), a […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will run in the 2024 presidential election, state news agency TASS reported on Friday. Putin, 71, announced his decision to seek to extend his rule of 24 years as prime minister or president following an awards ceremony for army personnel at the Kremlin, […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused “Western elites” of trying to slow down the emergence of new leaders in the world economy. “You know that now the entire global system of economic relations is going through a stage of fundamental and, as just said, irreversible changes. They are due to […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: Denmark passed legislation on Thursday effectively criminalizing Islamophobic Quran-burning protests on the grounds of “inappropriate treatment of writings with significant importance for a recognized religious community.” Following a heated debate among lawmakers, the bill was passed with 94 votes in favor and 77 votes against in the 179-member Danish parliament. The […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: In a bid to bolster economic cooperation and enhance bilateral ties, the Kenyan government on Thursday announced its intention to send 1,500 casual farm laborers to Israel to engage in agricultural activities. The announcement came a day after a bilateral meeting between Kenyan officials and an Israeli delegation held at the […]
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A Russian flag atop a hammer and sickle at the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia. Thu 07 December 2023: Russia’s upper house of parliament has voted to set the date for the country’s next presidential election for March 17, 2024, potentially moving President Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth term in […]
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