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‘Shame’ on Emmanuel Macron for urging halt to arms supply to Israel, says Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (October 5, 2024) slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for calling for a halt to arms supplies to Israel, which is fighting wars in Gaza and Lebanon. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led…
A truck and ambulance burn after Israeli airstrikes hit a group of paramedics outside a hospital in Marjayoun, south Lebanon, Friday, October. 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israel’s military struck outside the gates of a hospital in southern Lebanon without warning on Friday (October 4, 2024) killing seven paramedics and forcing the facility to…
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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron called Saturday for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza, provoking a sharp response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Macron also criticised Netanyahu’s decision to send troops into ground operations in Lebanon. “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political…
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United Nations: The UN secretary-general denounced Hamas and called for an immediate end to the “shocking violence and bloodshed” in Gaza and Lebanon in a statement Saturday ahead of the anniversary of the Palestinian group’s October 7 attack. Monday marks one year since the devastating assault on Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza,…
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A handout photo taken on December 1, 2023, and obtained from the New Zealand Defence Force on October 6, 2024, shows the Royal New Zealand Navy ship the HMNZS Manawanui in a bay in the Three Kings Islands. New Zealand said on October 6, 2024, it had rescued all 75 sailors from a navy vessel…
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Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on October 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP At least five people were killed and 20 others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Gaza mosque early on Sunday (October 6,…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP The United States government completed an initial shipment of vaccine doses and therapeutic drugs for Marburg disease to Rwanda on Oct. 4, Thierry Roels, U.S. CDC Country Director in Rwanda told Reuters on Saturday (October 5, 2024). The U.S. government is also working closely with…
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File photo of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: On October 2, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel had banned United Nations Secretary- General (UNSG) António Guterres from entering the country, accusing him of “backing” Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. Why did Israel ban…
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Tense situation prevailed in Islamabad amid Army deployment when supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan made it to D-Chowk in the heart of the capital to register a symbolic victory. In Islamabad and Lahore, there were clashes between Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters and policemen. In Lahore, the party workers tried to march towards…
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The 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the fall of a thousands-of-years-old monarchy and spawned the birth of a theocratic republic, was one of the most consequential events of post-World War West Asia. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last king of Iran, was a close ally of the U.S. and Israel. In 1953, the U.S. helped…
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