Israel Defence Forces. Sun 05 October 2023: The bloodier, and likely more protracted stage of the war, will likely include Israeli forays into Hamas tunnels. Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza started last week as a slow, rolling, gradual advance of land forces along three main axes: from the north, armoured and mechanised units moved at […]
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United States of America Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, has reiterated her country’s commitment to strengthen the U.S.-Africa trade and investment relationship to deliver real opportunities across societies. Sun 05 October 2023: United States of America Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, has reiterated her country’s commitment to strengthen the U.S.-Africa trade and investment relationship to deliver real […]
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Russian surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon system Pantsir-S1 (File Photo). Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected claims that the Wagner paramilitary group transferred air defense systems to the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon. If the U.S. has concerns in this regard it may use existing military communication channels with Russian counterparts and ask them […]
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Sat 04 October 2023: U.S. and European officials have spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, NBC quoted an unidentified senior U.S. official and one former U.S. official as saying. The war in Ukraine, now in its 21st month, has killed or wounded hundreds […]
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Sat 04 October 2023: Palestinian rights advocates say ‘pauses’ are ‘insufficient’ and would not absolve US of complicity in Israeli attacks. Washington, DC – As United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Israeli leaders to urge “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israel intensified its bombing of the Palestinian territory, hitting hospitals, ambulances and civilians fleeing […]
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The University of Edinburgh holds one of the largest and most historically significant collections of ancestral remains (Neil Hanna/PA) Sat 04 October 2023: The University of Edinburgh has returned the skulls of four Paiwan warriors to Taiwanese Indigenous leaders, nearly 150 years after their deaths. The repatriation is the first of its kind for […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: A massive blaze ripped through a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran on Friday (Nov 3), claiming the lives of at least 32 people and wounding 16 others, local media reported. “Thirty-two people have been killed in the fire” which broke out at a drug rehabilitation centre in Langarud, a city […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: The Palestine Chronicle asked people in Gaza, mostly displaced refugees in the central part of the Strip, about their views of Nasrallah’s speech. In a much-anticipated speech on Friday, Hezbollah Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, confirmed that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation “has expanded to include more than one front and battleground.” During […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas. Hamas’s official account, the account of its armed wing the Qassam Brigades, and the news account Gaza Now have not been accessible on versions of Telegram downloaded from Google Play or Apple’s […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5bn in military aid for Israel, setting up a partisan clash over the usually bipartisan issue of backing the staunch US ally. The plan, which is funded by cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, passed on Thursday by 226 […]
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