Sun 19 October 2023: Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Madrid in opposition to a controversial Catalan amnesty law that enabled Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to form a government for a second term. Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) secured the backing of the Catalan separatist Junts party by offering amnesty to those linked […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: Hamas fighters who attacked a music festival in Israel on October 7, killing hundreds, likely did not know in advance about the event and decided to target it on the spot, Israeli media has reported citing police and security sources. According to a copy of the first Israeli police report into the […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Russia has sent the first of its promised free of charge grain shipments to Africa, the country’s agriculture minister said on Friday. “The first two ships with 25,000 tons of Russian wheat each have already left Russian ports for Somalia and Burkina Faso. We expect them to arrive in late November […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Russian authorities have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement”, in the latest crackdown against the country’s beleaguered community. The Ministry of Justice said it had “lodged an administrative legal claim” aimed at recognising the LGBTQ movement “as extremist and banning its activity in […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Organisers of the pro-Palestine marches that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people to London’s streets have planned smaller action in villages, towns and cities rather than holding a national march in the capital this Saturday. More than 100 pro-Palestine events demanding a ceasefire in Gaza are due to take place across the […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Analysts say talk of the Palestinian Authority governing a destroyed post-conflict Gaza is premature and unrealistic. Washington, DC – United States officials have increasingly suggested that the Palestinian Authority (PA) should rule over Gaza after Israel achieves its objective of eliminating Hamas, the group that currently controls the territory. But analysts warn that the […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday that he hoped President Vladimir Putin would run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep the Kremlin chief in power until at least 2030. Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: Tensions have been rising in the province of Aceh after the arrival of three boats carrying hundreds of people in just three days. Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia is facing a renewed refugee crisis after the arrival of three boats in as many days with nearly 600 Rohingya people on board. Two of […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: More than two decades after the attacks that ignited the US ‘War on Terror,’ Osama Bin Laden’s anti-Jewish letter justifying terrorism against Americans has resonated on social media and captured the imaginations of pro-Palestinian activists amid the Israel-Hamas war. Videos with the hashtag “LettertoAmerica” have been viewed more than 13.5 million times on TikTok, apparently […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: A Canadian man inspired by white nationalist beliefs has been found guilty of murdering four members of a Muslim family by running them over with a pick-up truck in an attack that sent waves of shock, grief and fear across the country and spurred calls to tackle Islamophobia. On Thursday, 22-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, who […]
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