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Turkey halts all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza
Turkey suspended all trade with Israel effective immediately over the humanitarian crisis it has caused in Gaza, the Turkish trade ministry announced on Thursday. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have...
Gaza Genocide
It will take until 2040 to repair destroyed homes in Gaza: UN
If the war in Gaza stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes...
Gaza Genocide
India backs Palestine’s bid for full membership of UN
India on Wednesday said it hoped that Palestine’s application to become a full member of the United Nations would be reconsidered and endorsed.
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Over 1,600 arrests at student-led Palestine protests on 30 US campuses: Report
The Associated Press news agency reported that police made arrests at least 38 times on US campuses since...
Gaza Genocide
KFC shuts over 100 outlets in Malaysia over pro-Palestine boycott
American fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has temporarily shut over 100 restaurants in Malaysia as U.S.-linked businesses around the world face battering amid boycotts in favor of Palestine, triggered by the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.
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Australia’s 31st prime minister Anthony Albanese
Paul Strangio, Monash University
Karen Middleton’s 2016 biography of Anthony Albanese concludes with a speech he made that year, on the 20th anniversary of his election to parliament.
“I’m patient”, he...
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Ukraine crisis a ‘global issue’: Joe Biden
The US president Joe Biden has said that the crisis in Ukraine is a global issue which heightens the importance of maintaining international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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Ukraine says 13,000 Russian war crimes being probed
Ukraine’s prosecutor general says the country’s authorities are investigating about 13,000 cases of alleged war crimes carried out by Russian forces.
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Record 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide: UNHCR
The Ukraine war and other conflicts pushed the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution over the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) informed on Sunday.
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Millions stranded as flooding causes havoc in Bangladesh
Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh, leaving at least one million stranded.
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18 million in Africa’s Sahel on ‘the brink of starvation’
As 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund
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17-year-old Palestinian boy killed in Israeli raid
Israeli troops shot and killed a teenage Palestinian boy, Amjad al-Fayyed, 17, as they raided the northern city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
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Five tips for young people dealing with long COVID
While we might not be hearing the daily COVID numbers anymore, the virus hasn’t gone away. In the UK alone, thousands of new cases continue to be recorded every day.
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Food insecurity threatens societies and ‘no country is immune’
“When war is waged, people go hungry,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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Israel says it will not investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
The Israeli military is not planning to investigate the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israeli media reported.
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Russian forces committed ‘apparent war crimes’ around Kyiv, in Chernihiv: HRW
Russian forces controlling much of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in northeastern Ukraine from late February through March 2022 subjected civilians to summary executions, torture, and other grave abuses that are apparent war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
Film and TV
“You can make a film about same event without one being a copy of other”: Asghar Farhadi on plagiarism allegations
Speaking about the matter for the first time in public, award winning director Asghar Farhadi denied that he plagiarised his 2021 film "A Hero."
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