Posts tagged palestinian authority
WORLD BRIEFING: January 26, 2024

Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board. Israel and Qatar are in a major diplomatic spat over Gaza. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 16, 2024

Polling in the state has shown former President Donald Trump with a substantial lead, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in a tight race for second place. The Gaza death toll now passes 24,000. Italian PM Meloni could be headed for trouble with her main ‘frenemy.’

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 5, 2024

Russia has used ballistic missiles and launchers supplied by North Korea in Ukraine, U.S. says. A new report documents more than $7.8 million in payments from at least 20 foreign governments — including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — to businesses owned by then-President Trump during two years of his term.

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 15, 2023

Israeli troops entered Gaza's biggest hospital on Wednesday and were searching its rooms and basement. An internal and scathing 5-page memo signed by 100 of its own and USAID employees, accuses President Biden of "spreading misinformation" on the Israel-Hamas war and alleges that Israel is committing "war crimes" in Gaza. Presidents Xi and Biden meet in SF today ahead of the APEC leaders summit.

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 10, 2023

Israel has agreed to begin four-hour “pauses” in military operations in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to get in and innocent civilians to safely get out. Meanwhile some 80,000 civilians were said to have fled from the northern to the southern parts of Gaza. A powerful Russian missile strikes a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier off Odesa

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 7, 2023

The heads of several major United Nations bodies on Monday made a united call for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify nearly one month into the conflict. The death toll is now said to have surpassed 10,000. A deadly Russian strike on Odesa damaged its famed art museum and several apartment buildings 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 5, 2023

Israeli protesters reportedly broke through barricades at the prime minister’s residence in Tel Aviv. The U.S. top diplomat’s shuttle diplomacy appears to have produced few results. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 30, 2023

About a thousand Palestinians have died in Gaza since Friday, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, bringing the overall death toll there to more than 8,000. After two nights and a day of internet and phone service outages, Palestinian communications came back on Sunday. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 28, 2023

A ground invasion appears under way in Gaza as mobile phone service and internet connectivity ceases. The U.N. reiterates pleas for humanitarian aid to resume and for a ceasefire to be implemented. The wives and children of active Ukrainian servicemen plead for limits to their tours of duty on the frontlines.

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 26, 2023

In an almost unprecedented move, Israel moves to bar the UN’s top humanitarian official from the country, and threatens to deny visas to other UN staff as well. Gridlock in Washngton could come to an end soon with the election of a new House speaker, who also happens to be a Trump supporter.

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 25, 2023

Death toll rises in Gaza as more Israeli refugees are released. The main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees in Gaza could run out of fuel as early as Wednesday. Russia continues to target civilian targets in Ukraine.

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 24, 2023

More aid enters Gaza as Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave. Russia aims at Ukraine power infrastructure ahead of winter. 

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