Sun 09 June 2024: Israeli minister Benny Gantz has announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s far-right coalition, amid a months-long assault on Gaza. “Netanyahu is preventing us from advancing toward true victory. That is why we are leaving the emergency government today, […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: The head of Hamas’ Political Bureau reaffirmed Saturday that resistance forces would continue to defend Palestinian rights against Israel after attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, Ismail Haniyeh asserted that Israel “continues to massacre Palestinian children and women in the Nuseirat […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election up-ended 30 years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress. The party garnered only 40.18% of the vote […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: The death toll from the Israeli bombing on Saturday of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has risen to 210, the Government Media Office in the besieged Palestinian enclave said. “Some 210 martyrs and more than 400 injured were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital due to the brutal Israeli massacre in […]
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Sun 09 June 2024: Polling stations have opened in 20 European countries for elections anticipated to shift the European Parliament to the right, potentially reshaping the future of the EU, the world’s largest trading bloc. Key issues influencing voters include the war in Ukraine, climate policies affecting farmers, and migration concerns, from Portugal to Austria, […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: Rebel fighters associated with ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 38 people in a nighttime assault on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to local officials and a regional civil society leader. Armed with guns and machetes, the attackers targeted residents in Beni territory, North Kivu province, […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: Turkiye has begun mass producing its first domestically-manufactured battle tank, in the latest boost to the country’s defence industry. According to the head of the Turkiye’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), Haluk Gorgun, who spoke to the channel, TRT Haber, “we have started the mass production of our national tank. There are […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: A UN official on Friday said a sharp increase in fighting in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Russian forces entered early May and have since advanced, has the “heaviest impact.” “An escalation in fighting in the Kharkiv region since 10 May has had the heaviest impact,” Joyce Msuya, UN […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: The World Health Organization on Friday said that every day, an estimated 1.6 million people become sick from eating unsafe food. Children under the age of 5 carry 40% of the foodborne disease burden, Francesco Branca, head of nutrition and food safety at the WHO, told a UN press briefing in […]
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Sat 08 June 2024: Unemployment in the Gaza Strip has hit a “staggering” 79.1 percent since Israel launched its military onslaught on the besieged and bombarded territory in October last year, according to the United Nations labour agency. In its latest assessment of the impact of the war on employment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) also said […]
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