- Israel strikes Gaza Catholic church, killing three Reuters
- Pope ‘deeply saddened’ after three people killed in apparent Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church CNN
- Israel kills over 90, including dozens of aid seekers, in Gaza in one…
Category: 4. World
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Ukraine bags one third of EU’s €300 billion external action budget proposal
One third of the €300 billion earmarked by the Commission to support external action for the 2028–2034 period – designed in particular to support development aid, enlargement and neighbourhood policy and strengthen partnerships with third countries on migration – has been enveloped for…
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‘Preparation is our only option’: sirens wail as Taiwan simulates China attack in city streets | Taiwan
Usually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shopping district of Ximen. They knew they had three minutes to get where they needed to be or they would be stuck…
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16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election as government says it will lower voting age in UK
BBC Bitesize’s three top tips for making big decisionspublished at 16:19 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesWhen 16 and 17-year-olds – as well as those a lot older – arrive at the ballot box at the next general election,…
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In a historic gathering, 12 countries announce Israel sanctions and renewed legal action to end Gaza genocide – Mondoweiss
Speaking about Palestine is speaking about resistance in the heart of horror. That is how Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, summed it up at an emergency…
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Eswatini: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
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Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that…
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India Unfazed by Trump Threat of Secondary Sanctions on Russian Oil Buyers
India is not concerned about President Trump’s threat to crack down on Russia’s oil exports and slap secondary sanctions or tariffs on buyers of Russian crude if no peace deal on Ukraine is reached in 50 days.
“I’m not worried…
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Bukele’s Crackdown in El Salvador Forces Human Rights Groups to Flee
In early June, a career journalist in El Salvador received a call from a government source. Their name was on a list of more than a dozen individuals the administration of President Nayib Bukele planned to have arrested. “I left the country…
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Thai Woman Arrested For Seducing Celibate Buddhist Monks & Blackmailing Them
Woman in Thailand was arrested for allegedly extorting celibate monks she was sleeping with.
Buddhist monks in Thailand have been hit hard in…
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