Sun 29 October 2023: Bangladesh’s leading opposition figure has been detained, as tensions mount between the country’s governing party and opposition forces ahead of general elections due in January. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary-general of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was picked up by law enforcement on Sunday, a day after mass antigovernment protests […]
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Sun 29 October 2023: A strong combined-arms attack on Gaza that started on Friday night continued on Saturday, but it is still unclear whether this is the first step in the big push that Israel has been announcing or is it just another probe to test Palestinian resistance. The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground […]
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Sun 29 October 2023: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says thousands of Palestinians, desperate due to three weeks of total siege and bombing, broke into several of its warehouses in the Gaza Strip, taking wheat, flour and other basic goods. “This is a worrying sign that civil order is […]
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Protesters gathered to demand that the government work to release their loved ones from captivity in Gaza. In Tel Aviv, Israel, October 24, 2023 [Al Jazeera] Sat 28 October 2023: Tel Aviv, Israel – Miri Benami tells Al Jazeera she was worried when she could not get through to her son, Yosef Ohana, on October 7. […]
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Sat 28 October 2023: Iran has warned Israel of severe consequences from “multiple fronts” if it does not halt its relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip. This warning is widely interpreted as a declaration of intent for Iran to enter the conflict via its allies and proxies. The Hezbollah militant group, which is already engaged in low-level skirmishes across […]
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Sat 28 October 2023: Palestinians whose permits to work in Israel were revoked are believed to be held in detention camps, but Israel has so far refused to release information about them, human rights groups say. Thousands of workers from Gaza, who were employed in Israel when the war started, have gone missing since then […]
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Sat 28 October 2023: South Africans across the country are gripped by the green and gold fever ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup final on Saturday, which will pit South Africa’s Springboks against the All Blacks from New Zealand. If the semi-final is anything to go by, the final game promises to be a […]
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Spanish Ombudsman Angel Gabilondo. Sat 28 October 2023: More than 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of more than 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent […]
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Fri 27 October 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to be in the crowd when the Springboks take on New Zealand, known as the All Blacks, in the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday evening. The much-anticipated showpiece will be held at the Stade de France in Paris. “The President will… travel to Paris to support […]
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United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said the latest strikes on Syria are not connected to the Israel-Hamas war. Fri 27 October 2023: The United States has attacked two facilities in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed groups, the Pentagon has said, following a series of attacks against […]
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