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As Israel seizes aid ship, campaign group vows relentless efforts to break Gaza siege – Middle East Monitor
A campaign group to break Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip vowed today to continue efforts to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to the enclave, shortly after Tel Aviv intercepted an aid ship bound for the territory while it was in international waters.
“[Though] we feel helpless and our capabilities are limited, we continue to do everything we can, along with the free people of the world, to reject the war and demand the opening of the crossings and…
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retired general says – Middle East Monitor
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has defeated the Israeli occupation army, which considers itself “the strongest army” in the Middle East, retired Israeli General and military expert, Yitzhak Brik, has said, considering the defeat a “severe blow to Israel’s deterrence”.
In an article published yesterday in the Hebrew Maariv newspaper under the title “Leading Israel to Mass Suicide: The IDF Continues to Fight the Wars of the Past”,
Brik…
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Climate action clashes with tradition in Ireland’s peat bogs | Environment
As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat – the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century.
The painstaking work of “footing turf”, as the process of drying peat for burning is known, is valued by people across rural Ireland as a source of low-cost energy that gives their homes a distinctive smell.
But peat-harvesting has also destroyed precious wildlife habitats, and converted what should be natural stores for carbon…
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US and China to take second shot at averting trade war in London talks | Trade War News
Senior delegations expected to discuss fragile tariffs deal in bid to avert trade war between world’s two biggest economies.
High-level delegations from the United States and China are to meet in London to try to save a fragile tariffs deal and avert a possible trade war that has already roiled the global economy and sparked fears of recession.
The meeting on Monday follows negotiations in Geneva last month that resulted in a temporary respite in the trade war between the world’s two…
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Shocking brain cancer breakthrough: Electric fields supercharge immune assault
A new study led by Keck Medicine of USC researchers may have uncovered an effective combination therapy for glioblastoma, a brain tumor diagnosis with few available effective treatments. According to the National Brain Tumor Society, the average survival for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma is eight months.
The study finds that using Tumor Treating Fields therapy (TTFields), which delivers targeted waves of electric fields directly into tumors to stop their growth and signal the body’s…
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Iran says it obtained sensitive Israeli nuclear documents – Middle East Monitor
Iranian intelligence agencies have obtained a large trove of sensitive Israeli documents, some related to the nuclear plans and facilities, Iran’s state media reported on Saturday according to Reuters.
There was no immediate official comment from Israel and it was not clear whether the report was linked to a reported hacking of an Israeli nuclear research centre last year that Tehran is choosing to divulge now amid heightened tensions over its nuclear…
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Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg reaches Israeli port
A Gaza-bound aid boat reached Israel’s Ashdod port on Monday after being intercepted by Israeli forces, preventing the dozen activists on board including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.
An AFP photographer said that the Madleen, which organisers said was intercepted in international waters overnight, reached the port north of Gaza at around 8:45 pm (1745 GMT), escorted by the Israeli navy.
The Madleen set sail from Italy on June 1 to raise…
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Iran says to submit own nuclear proposal to US soon
Iran said on Monday it will soon present a counter-proposal on a nuclear deal with the United States, after it had described Washington’s offer as containing “ambiguities”.
Tehran and Washington have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new nuclear accord to replace the deal with major powers that US President Donald Trump abandoned during his first term in 2018.
The longtime foes have been locked in a diplomatic standoff over Iran’s uranium enrichment, with Tehran defending…
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Israel diverts Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg
Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat on Monday, preventing the activists on board — including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg — from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.
The Madleen set sail from Italy on June 1 to raise awareness of food shortages in Gaza, which the United Nations has called the “hungriest place on Earth”. After 21 months of war, the UN warns the entire population is at risk of famine.
At around 4:02 am (0102 GMT), Israeli forces “forcibly…
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