Palestine

Category: 3. World

  • Bondi moves forward on US Justice Department investigation into origins of Trump-Russia probe

    Bondi moves forward on US Justice Department investigation into origins of Trump-Russia probe


    SYDNEY/TOKYO: Japan clinched a landmark $6.5 billion (A$10 billion) deal on Tuesday to build Australia’s next-generation warships, marking Tokyo’s most consequential defense sale since ending a military export ban in 2014 in a step away from its postwar pacifism.


    Under the agreement, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will supply the Royal Australian Navy with upgraded Mogami-class multi-role frigates from 2029.


    Designed to hunt submarines, strike surface ships…

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  • Nigeria seizes 1,600 birds at Lagos airport bound for Kuwait

    Nigeria seizes 1,600 birds at Lagos airport bound for Kuwait

    The cargo of live birds was intercepted by customs officials at the airport on July 31Parrots, songbirds and birds of prey are among the most trafficked birds for the exotic pet tradeLAGOS: Customs officials at Nigeria’s Lagos international airport said they had seized more than 1,600 parrots and canaries that were being transported to Kuwait without a permit, in one of the biggest such seizures in years.

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  • Rwanda accepts up to 250 deportees from the US under Trump’s third-country plan

    Rwanda accepts up to 250 deportees from the US under Trump’s third-country plan

    Ex-British Army head urged Palestine Action crackdown at behest of US company: Report


    LONDON: The former head of the British Army and a House of Lords peer, Richard Dannatt, urged government ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the behest of a US arms company that employs him as an adviser, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.


    He wrote privately to two Home Office ministers, requesting that they confront the…

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  • Iberia probes ‘Free Palestine’ message on kosher meals

    Iberia probes ‘Free Palestine’ message on kosher meals

    MADRID: Spanish airline Iberia said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation after a passenger who requested a kosher meal received his food tray with the words “Free Palestine” written on the packaging.
    Several other Jewish passengers on the flight from Buenos Aires to Madrid received meal trays marked with the initials “FP” for “Free Palestine,” according to DAIA, the umbrella organization of Argentina’s Jewish community, calling it a “serious act of antisemitism.”

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  • Ex-British Army head urged Palestine Action crackdown at behest of US company: Report

    Ex-British Army head urged Palestine Action crackdown at behest of US company: Report

    LONDON: The former head of the British Army and a House of Lords peer, Richard Dannatt, urged government ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the behest of a US arms company that employs him as an adviser, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.

    He wrote privately to two Home Office ministers, requesting that they confront the “threat” posed by the activist group, the newspaper reported.

    It came after Palestine Action in 2022 targeted a factory operated by Teledyne, a US…

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  • Russia to end self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles

    Russia to end self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles

    MOSCOW: Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise again over Ukraine.

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  • UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’

    UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’

    GENEVA: Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste.
    “We are facing a global crisis,” Ecuadoran diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso said at the start of 10 days of negotiations.
    “Plastic pollution is damaging ecosystems, polluting our oceans and rivers, threatening biodiversity, harming human health, and unfairly impacting the…

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  • India deploys rescue teams as flood swamps Himalayan town

    India deploys rescue teams as flood swamps Himalayan town

    DEHRADUN, India: Rescue teams deployed Tuesday to India’s Himalayan region after flash floods tore down a mountain valley, appearing to wipe away much of a town, where at least four people were missing.

    Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a surge of muddy water sweeping away multi-story apartment blocks in the tourist region of Dharali in Uttarakhand state.

    Pushkar Singh Dhami, Uttarakhand state chief minister, said rescue teams had been deployed “on a war footing.”

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  • Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari dies in London

    Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari dies in London


    Dhaka/Phnom Penh: Across Asia, unions and industry groups are raising alarms over the impact of higher tariffs by the United States on garment workers.


    High tariffs might force companies to shut down or move to neighboring countries that offer lower tariff rates, resulting in a loss of jobs, they say.


    “The potential loss of jobs will cut the income and ability for workers to sustain their daily lives,” said Ath Thorn, vice president of the Coalition of…

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  • Russia’s Lavrov visits Beijing to discuss Ukraine

    Russia’s Lavrov visits Beijing to discuss Ukraine

    MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Sunday in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart to discuss Ukraine and relations with the United States.
    Russia’s top diplomat arrived in China following a visit to North Korea, where he received assurances of support in its conflict with Ukraine.
    Lavrov and Wang Yi “discussed relations with the United States and the outlook for settling the Ukrainian crisis,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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