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UN says ready to deploy police force to Gaza

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The United Nations is “ready to respond to any call by member states” to deploy a police force to Gaza, the UN’s Deputy Secretary-General for Peace Operations has stated.
Europe

Kremlin says Putin, Mokhber call energy cooperation, infrastructure projects successful

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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with acting Iranian President Mohammad Mokhber, and the leaders noted that the bilateral energy collaboration, as well as the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects are successful, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday.
Middle East

French court upholds arrest warrant for Syria’s Assad

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A Paris appeals court has upheld an arrest warrant issued for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over alleged complicity in war crimes committed during the foreign-imposed war in the Arab country, according to lawyers.
Middle East

Canadian university sues  own students over encampment for Gaza

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The University of Waterloo in Canada has filed a lawsuit against its students for continuing pro-Palestine encampment, urging the university to disclose and divest from Israel amid the war in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Europe

NATO picks Mark Rutte as new Secretary General

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The outgoing Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has been formally selected as the next NATO head, the military alliance announced Wednesday. The move comes at a pivotal time as the bloc grapples with supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Middle East

WHO warns one in five Gazans facing extreme lack of food

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At least 20 percent of Gazans are facing an extreme lack of food as the risk of famine in the Palestinian enclave remains high, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned.
Europe

Over 60 percent of Europeans support suspending free trade with Israel: Poll

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61 percent of people in Europe believe the European Union should suspend free trade with Israel enabled by the EU-Israel Association Agreement and uphold human rights, a survey released by corporate watchdog Eko showed.
Int'l Relations

Iran says unconditional withdrawal of US forces necessary for Syria’s peace

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Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has stated the full and unconditional exit of US troops from Syria is necessary for the Arab nation’s stability and security, arguing that Washington continues to support terrorist groups instead of fighting terrorism.
Europe

ICC issues arrest warrants for Russia’s top military officials

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A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s former Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and current chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, the court announced in a statement on its website.
Americas

Pentagon chief urges diplomacy to avoid Israel-Hezbollah war

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United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stressed that a diplomatic solution is needed to avoid a costly war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
Americas

US sanctions dozens of people, entities claimed to be linked to Iran military

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The United States has imposed a raft of new sanctions on nearly 50 entities, companies, and people that it claims have been helping the Iranian military transfer billions of dollars between various states.
Europe

EU says to send €1.4bn in Russian money to Ukraine amid war

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The European Union approved the transfer of €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) in profits from Russia’s frozen assets as military assistance to Ukraine, the bloc’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has announced.
Middle East

Gazans forced to rely on contaminated seawater for daily needs: UN

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Thousands of families in the Gaza Strip are forced to rely on contaminated seawater for their daily needs as Israel continues to block most of the humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave, leaving the population hungry and thirsty, the United Nations has warned.
Europe

Russia expects to sign new co-operation pact with Iran in ‘very near future’

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Moscow expects to sign a new agreement on comprehensive cooperation with Tehran "in the very near future", Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Russia's RIA state news agency in an interview.
Europe

Moscow responds to EU sanctions

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Russia has expanded its travel ban list and vowed a “proper response” to any further unfriendly acts from Brussels after the EU announced an expansion of unilateral restrictive measures against Moscow.
Middle East

Lebanese officials visit Beirut airport after Israel’s claims of storing arms

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A group of senior Lebanese officials, alongside more than a dozen foreign diplomats, visited the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, after The Telegraph daily published an article alleging that Iranian weapons were being stored there.
Middle East

US urges Israel to avoid Lebanon ‘escalation’

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Tel Aviv to avoid further escalation in Lebanon during a meeting with Israel’s Defense Minister Gallant as they discussed efforts to reach a deal to free captives in the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

Nearly half a million Gazans facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity: UN report

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At least 20 percent of Gaza’s population - that's nearly 500,000 people - are now facing “catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity”, according to a draft report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is the United Nations hunger monitoring system.
Middle East

Family members of Hamas leader, including sister, killed in Israeli raid in Gaza

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Family members of Ismail Haniyeh, political head of the Hamas group, including his sister, were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in the western Gaza City on Tuesday.
Middle East

Hamas: Netanyahu seeking to ‘stall for time, to continue genocide’

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Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has responded to the statement by Israel’s prime minister suggesting “a partial” truce to get some captives back. He says that Benjamin Netanyahu’s ceasefire stance is to avoid reaching a deal, to stall for time, and to continue "the war of genocide" in the Gaza Strip.
Nuclear

Iran UN envoy: No alternative to JCPOA nuclear deal

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Iran's permanent envoy at the United Nations has reiterated the country’s long-standing take that no better alternative exists to the 2015 nuclear agreement with the West, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Middle East

Netanyahu walks back from comments that seemingly dismissed US-backed ceasefire proposal in Gaza

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has walked back from his comments where he appeared to dismiss the latest Tel Aviv ceasefire proposal backed by the United States in the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

At least 42 Israeli hostages  believed to be dead: IDF

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The Israeli military has confirmed the death of a soldier held hostage by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip for nearly nine months since Hamas’s October 7 attack. It brings the number of captives believed to be dead to 42.
Europe

Russia summons US envoy over civilian deaths in Crimea attack

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The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador to Moscow after Ukraine used American-supplied ATACMS missiles in an attack on the Crimean peninsula, resulting in numerous civilian casualties.
Americas

Another Iranian national killed in Canada

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Two people were arrested in British Columbia, Canada, on suspicion of murdering a 40-year-old Iranian national identified as Fayegh Abdollahi.
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