❗️Around 14,000 People Need to be Medically Evacuated from Gaza - WHO

The BBC presenter describes the slaughter, starvation, displacement and destruction in Gaza as "ongoing difficulties on the ground."

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⚡️ UK Accused Israel of Not Acting Like ‘Civilised Nation’ - Archives Reveal

Newly released documents show heated exchanges between Israel’s defense minister and Britain’s ambassador regarding IDF activity during a West Bank incursion in 2002.

UK officials on the ground compiled a report on the character of the IDF, which claimed Israeli troops were ‘out of control’ – adding: ‘They look down on the Arabs and despise them. It needs to be said that the average Israeli does not value an Arab life as equal to a Jewish one.”

Cabinet Office papers show that US President George Bush also complained to then-UK PM Tony Blair about how this action would turn Arafat into a “martyr.”

Plus ça change?

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📣 NEW: US House Speaker Mike Johnson reiterates warning to lawmakers that there will be “zero-tolerance policy for disturbances” during Netanyahu’s address to Congress

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😳 EU wants to build comprehensive database of assets owned by all citizens - Focus

The EU Asset Register is expected to be a comprehensive database that records a wide range of assets owned by citizens, including real estate, bank accounts, securities, vehicles, and possibly works of art or precious metals.

George Orwell 2.0 incoming.

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🧐 “We are here today to throw our support behind VP Kamala Harris” - Chuck Schumer

*silence*

That tumbleweed silence of support apparently raised $81mn+ in just a few hours…

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👴 Proof of Life for Joe Biden

Old Joe has made his first appearance since Team Kamala stole his power while he was allegedly sick with COVID.

He looks terrible, well, worse than normal - not a high bar, admittedly.

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📣 NEW: Protesters calling for end of US arms sales to Israel - camp out in cannon office rotunda

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❗️UK Must Be Ready for War in Three Years - Head of British Army

Britain's army must be ready in three years to fight a war against an "axis of upheaval" of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, the force's new chief has warned.

While stressing that conflict was not inevitable, General Sir Roly Walker predicted that Putin would come out of the Ukraine war “very, very dangerous.”

Walker claimed that the Russian president would be “wanting retribution” against countries that supported Ukraine.

UK PM Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to lift defense spending to 2.5% of national income from just over 2% at present, but has yet to specify a timeframe.

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❗️Ukraine ready to negotiate with Russia - Kiev (Xinhua News Agency)

Ukraine’s FM Dmitry Kuleba made Kiev’s change in stance known to Beijing during a conversation with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

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⚡️ IDF Soldiers Murder Palestinian Customs Police Officer in Cold Blood, North of the Occupied West Bank

Israeli troops entered the town of Tubas Wednesday morning, disguised in a civilian van with Palestinian registration plates, CCTV has revealed.

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⚠️ Belarus FM Arrives in North Korea for State Visit

Maxim Ruzenkov is in Pyongyang for a four-day state visit at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK.

North Korea will “deepen ties with Minsk on all fronts to open a new era of improved relationships,” DPRK FM Choe Son Hui said at a dinner welcoming the Belarusian delegation. (KCNA)

Ruzenkov was reported as saying Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un both hoped to nurture a closer relationship.

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