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‘Traitor’: Thousands strike against Argentina’s President Javier Milei | Protests News
Buenos Aires, Argentina – In the biggest show of resistance to date against far-right President Javier Milei, Argentinian workers have taken to the streets for a general strike, bringing swaths of downtown Buenos Aires to a standstill. It was an unprecedented mobilisation. Never before in modern Argentinian history has a mass strike been called less than seven weeks into a…
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Turkey, Iran agree on need for regional stability amid Israel’s war on Gaza | Politics News
The war in Gaza topped the agenda as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi met in Ankara. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he and his Iranian counterpart have agreed to avoid steps that could threaten Middle East stability, during a visit to Ankara by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi. At a news conference after the meeting on Wednesday,…
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Is Israel using food deprivation as a war tactic? | Israel War on Gaza News
Israel’s assault on Gaza has left hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents facing catastrophic food insecurity. More than half a million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic food insecurity amid Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the World Food Programme and other UN agencies. Is Israel using food deprivation as a tactic of war? Presenter: Adrian Finighan Guests: Alex de…
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More than 70 dead in artisanal mine collapse in Mali | Mining News
Despite the dangers, small-scale unregulated mines continue to flourish and attract thousands of gold miners. More than 70 people have died in southwest Mali after an artisanal gold mine collapsed last week, officials have said, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents. Karim Bethe, a senior National Geology and Mining Directorate official, shared the details with The…
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UNRWA facility under Israeli attack in Khan Younis | Israel War on Gaza News
NewsFeed A UNRWA spokesperson told Al Jazeera that hundreds of people sheltering at one of its training facilities in Khan Younis have come under heavy Israeli fire and are not able to escape. At least 9 people have been killed, dozens more injured. Published On 24 Jan 202424 Jan 2024 Source link
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Hundreds flee further south as Israeli forces advance in Khan Younis | Israel War on Gaza News
Hundreds of Palestinians have fled Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis after Israeli forces advanced deeper into the area. The Israeli military said its ground forces “encircled” the city earlier this week after 24 of its soldiers were killed in the enclave in the largest single-day toll since October 7. Khan Younis was designated by the Israeli army as a…
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Argentines take to the streets to protest against new austerity measures | Protests News
The president has said that the austerity measures are due to years of overspending that have resulted in huge debts. Argentine unions have begun a 12-hour strike in the capital to protest against tough economic reforms by President Javier Milei. Wednesday’s demonstration is the most significant show of opposition to Milei’s spending cuts and privatisation plans since he took office…
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Letter from Panama’s ‘Little Hiroshima’ | Opinions
Once upon a time, the United States was good buddies with a fellow named Manuel Noriega, a longstanding CIA asset and the dictator of Panama in the 1980s. Then one day, Noriega outlived his usefulness as an imperial lackey and needed to be sent packing. And so with a straight face, the gringos accused him of the unpardonable offence of…
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Drones attack deep in Russia as Medvedev threatens Ukraine’s ‘existence’ | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russia and Ukraine traded deadly aerial attacks on civilian centres in the past week of the war, but Ukraine also scored hits on military and economic infrastructure deep in the Russian heartland, extending its reach to St Petersburg for the first time. Ukrainian military intelligence said it had struck an unspecified military target in St Petersburg on Thursday, using drones…
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Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home | Features News
On January 6, Sudanese paramilitary leader Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, better known as “Hemedti”, visited the memorial in Kigali that commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Hemedti toured the museum solemnly, his sympathy-filled face belying the fact that his paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of similar atrocities in Sudan’s civil war. Hemedti’s visit to Rwanda was part of a tour…
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