Wed 15 October 2023: Washington, DC – Jeers erupted at a pro-Israel rally in Washington, DC, when political analyst Van Jones called for the bombing of Gaza to stop. Jones had condemned anti-Semitism and voiced support for Israel in his remarks to the March for Israel, a demonstration that brought tens of thousands of protesters on Tuesday to […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: Citing an internal defence department list, the US news outlet reported that the Pentagon is “delivering on requests that include more laser-guided missiles for its Apache gunship fleet, as well as 155mm shells, night-vision devices, bunker-buster munitions and new army vehicles”. The weapons are listed in a document that Bloomberg said […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: The president of the United States and two of his cabinet members are being sued for failing to prevent and aiding and abetting “genocide” in Gaza. A federal complaint (PDF), filed on Monday against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, accuses them of […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday criticized the Polish decision to deploy a tank battalion on the border with Belarus, saying it is “one more step to escalation.” “Surely this is one more step to … escalation and nothing else,” Peskov told at a news conference in Moscow, commenting on the […]
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Demonstrators hold placards calling for the boycott of pro-Israel products and companies during a protest to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 11, 2023. (AFP Photo) Tue 14 October 2023: Medan, Indonesia – Ade Andrian, operational manager of the Medan branch of the humanitarian organisation Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who went missing during Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, has been confirmed dead, her family have told Canadian media. Silver, 74, was killed in the Palestinian armed group’s initial attacks on southern Israeli communities, Silver’s son, Yonatan Zeigen, told CBC News and CTV News […]
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Mon 13 October 2023: David Cameron, the former British prime minister, will be the country’s new foreign minister, the office of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday. Cameron is also to be appointed to the British House of Lords, parliament’s upper chamber. His return to government is a big surprise. Cameron was prime minister […]
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Mon 13 October 2023: A Pakistani court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the country’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in two separate cases, a court record said. The fresh warrant was issued by an accountability court in the capital Islamabad at the request of the country’s anti-corruption watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau […]
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Mon 13 October 2023: The Chinese military will host a joint drill with soldiers from five Southeast Asian nations, beginning this week. China’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that soldiers from Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam will come together in the southern Guangdong province from mid-to-late November. The joint drill is themed on “countering […]
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Mon 13 October 2023: The third round of negotiations between representatives of UN member states will begin in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Monday, to finalise the details of a globally binding agreement to drastically reduce plastic waste. The hope is that a globally binding agreement can be forged, to minimize the harmful effects of […]
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