Wed 25 October 2023: UNICEF has called the number of child casualties in Gaza “a growing stain on our collective conscience” as it calls for an urgent ceasefire. The charity said “almost every child” in the region has been exposed to “deeply distressing events and trauma”, as Israeli airstrikes cause widespread destruction and food and water […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, adding there are “clear violations” of international humanitarian law in the besieged enclave. “Let me be clear: No party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law,” Guterres told a session of the UN Security Council. Guterres also pushed […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: The emir of Qatar has called on the international community to restrain Israel in its fight against Hamas, saying Israeli forces should not be given a green light for unconditional killing in the besieged Gaza Strip. In his opening speech at the Shura council’s annual session on Tuesday, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: The social fabric of the UK’s biggest cities is being transformed by sky-high rents and cuts to housing benefits as thousands of low-income private renters are pushed out of central areas, accelerating the “suburbanisation” of poverty, according to a study. The trend – driven also by the gentrification of once largely […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: In order to reduce worldwide tax evasion, the European Union (EU) Tax Observatory has suggested in its report that ultra-wealthy people should be subject to a global minimum tax. The total fortune of the estimated 2,500 billionaires is $13 trillion. According to the observatory’s report, which is affiliated with the Paris […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: Cybersecurity experts reported on Monday that they had discovered a fraudulent fundraising effort that was taking advantage of the Israel-Hamas conflict through phony websites and malicious emails. According to Kaspersky’s investigation, scammers created over 500 bogus emails and made phony websites in an attempt to expedite up the money transfer process. […]
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Tue 24 October 2023: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to the United States later this week as part of an ongoing effort to repair the two countries’ strained ties amid growing geopolitical crises. Wang will visit Washington from October 26-28 and meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden’s national […]
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Mon 23 October 2023: A Pakistani court has indicted Imran Khan for leaking state secrets, according to reports. The charge adds to the huge volume of legal turmoil that the former prime minister has met since his removal in April 2022. “He has been indicted today and the charge was openly read out,” said Shah Khawar […]
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Mon 23 October 2023: The White House has promised a “continued flow” of aid into Gaza, after a second convoy entered on Sunday and Israel continued to bombard the besieged enclave into the early hours of Monday. US President Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in a call that “there will now be continued […]
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Mon 23 October 2023: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that Washington is prepared to retaliate if US troops are targeted in the course of the Israel-Hamas war, as the possibility of the conflict spreading across the Middle East rises. Blinken, who was speaking during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, […]
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