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United States Vice President-elect JD Vance has said a deal between Israel and Hamas could soon be reached and the reason for the progress is “because people are terrified that there’re going to be consequences for Hamas”. “We’re hopeful there’s going to be a deal that is struck toward the very end of [Joe] Biden’s…
American journalist Ryan Grim says it may be risky for Israel to reject a ceasefire in Gaza, even if just to placate Trump. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bet his political future on waiting for President-elect Donald Trump to assume office, argues Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News. Grim tells host Steve Clemons that…
Before the blind league, ‘I had totally lost hope’ Participants in the game play with a ball that jingles while coaches and siblings of players bang on goalposts to help them aim their shots. Players shout “voy” (“I’m coming” in Spanish) to warn opponents of their approach and minimise injuries. All players wear blindfolds to…
Convoy of pro-government fighters was returning from a funeral when they came under fire from bandits in Katsina State. At least 21 government-backed fighters have been killed in an ambush by bandits in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina State, according to authorities. Katsina police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu told the AFP news agency on Saturday that a…
The meeting in Dubai between Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Taliban, on Wednesday this week has confirmed India’s intentions to raise its influence with the Afghan leadership, analysts say. India has been gradually upping relations with the Taliban over the past year but this latest meeting…
Karen State, Myanmar – Thaw Hti was a tiny speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a return to democracy after the Myanmar military seized power. “We had signboards and they had guns,” she said, recounting with bitterness the events of March…
At a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Tuesday, United States President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his desire to acquire Greenland, which he said was critical to American national security. The Republican leader, who is set to be inaugurated on January 20, refused to rule out using military or economic power to achieve…
Here are the key developments on the 1,050th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Thursday, January 9: Fighting A Russian-guided bomb attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said in a statement on social media….
M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa has told Al Jazeera that the rebel group’s fight in eastern DR Congo is one for survival. Source link
Here are the key developments on the 1,049th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source link
