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For two days, citizens poured into Belgrade for the largest protest in modern Serbian history. This occurred despite authorities' efforts to obstruct the demonstrations by halting public transportation.

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New details have emerged about the Israeli drone attack in Beit Lahia, which killed at least nine Palestinians.

Volodymyr Ariel, a close ally of Poroshenko, says that far from becoming a new Winston Churchill, Zelenskyy had failed to unite the nation. “Simply put, Zelenskyy has not become a true leader,” he says. “He is unable to adapt to the challenges Ukraine faces today. He remains selfish, narcissistic and arrogant in his dealing both within Ukraine and with international partners.”

When invading Russia, Kiev was guided primarily by political, not military, considerations. And ultimately lost in both senses.

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Ukraine is winning

Diplomats from Iran, Russia and China are meeting in Beijing for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme that could lead to negotiations following years of delay.

He is in a documentary called The Encampments (2025)

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials say.

A group of Israeli settler leaders visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and met senior government officials earlier this week, according to Israeli media.

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Pressure continues to grow against the ongoing Freedom Shield 25, a joint military exercise between the US and South Korea.

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The US administration has informed Egypt that it plans to reduce military aid to Cairo as a result of differences in their efforts to deal with the results of Israel’s genocidal bombing of the Gaza Strip, informed sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

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China said it would host nuclear talks with Iran and Russia, days after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to negotiate a new deal over its atomic work or face military action.

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The renowned German classical violinist Christian Tetzlaff was blunt in explaining why he and his quartet have cancelled a summer tour of the US.

Perhaps Canada should do the same — only the ones that support the Ukraine war against Russia, tho? Opinions?

An operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a separatist militant group in remote south-west Pakistan has continued into its second day, with dozens killed in the onslaught.

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US President Donald Trump has been refusing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s request for a follow up phone call over the decision to slap trade tariffs on Australia.

The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has left Manila on a plane headed to The Hague, hours after he was served with an arrest warrant from the international criminal court over the killings resulting from his “war on drugs”.

Silman said during Tuesday's interview that "Gush Katif will return, there's no question about it," referring to a former block of 17 Israeli apartheid settlements in southern Gaza that were abandoned 20 years ago. "It could be in single-family homes or Trump-style towers, but we will definitely go back there. I see no other solution to terrorism. The answer to terrorism is sovereignty."

According to a report by Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth, which cited the Israeli foreign ministry on Sunday, Turkiye blocked Israel from taking part in an annual NATO military exercise focused on resilience, combat readiness and emergency preparedness.

Privatisation of essential utilities doesn’t just mean directly more expensive bills and transport for households. It also has a domino effect on the rest of the economy through higher industry costs for utilities like water and energy.

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Critics condemn arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia University graduate student who led protests over Gaza war

Brazil, allied with progressive governments in the region, has managed to prevent the Organization of American States (OAS) from being led by an ally of the governments of Javier Milei and Donald Trump.

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.

Bullets: - The war in Ukraine consumes vast quantities of arms and ammunition, supplied almost entirely by the US and the EU. - Battlefield demands in Ukraine far outstrip the combined production of the entire Western bloc. - Arsenals across the EU are empty, and the United States is far more reluctant today to supply the Ukraine war effort. - But Europe faces severe problems in their efforts to rearm, and to make good their public support and promises to Ukraine. - Despite having a far smaller economy than either the US or the EU, Russia easily produces more ammunition and war materiel than the NATO countries, combined. - Meanwhile, Russia's close ally China has the world's most productive industrial sector, and monopolies on the supply chains necessary to build armaments. - Last year, China cut off exports of antimony, a critical component of explosives, and antimony prices have more than quadrupled in less than a year.

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The unrest is considered the worst in the country since former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, and it raises concerns about jeopardizing regional security.

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OTTAWA, March 9 (Reuters) - Former central banker Mark Carney won the race to become leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party and will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, official results showed on Sunday.

The international agency, part of the United Nations, was founded in 1948 and includes 194 countries working together to fight the world’s toughest public health problems. It is the cornerstone of global health efforts, with a multinational staff fighting both communicable diseases—like COVID-19, Zika, and HIV—and chronic conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Last month, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods made a claim so brazen it shocked even some of his most ardent critics. Humanity is not on track to meet its climate goals because the world "waited too long" to begin investing in renewable energy, and the public is to blame for it. In his words, "The people who are generating those emissions need to be aware of and pay the price for generating those emissions."

Earlier this week, police and firefighters found several Tesla charging stations in Littleton, MA on fire. One story said the fires were “being investigated as suspicious”.

Over the past two days, more than 1,000 people were killed in Syria’s coastal region, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). It started on Thursday, when supporters of overthrown autocrat Assad coordinated a number of attacks and ambushes on Syrian security forces. The fighters belonged to Assad’s Alawite sect.

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The State of Qatar called for intensified international efforts to bring all Israeli nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and for Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear state.

Turkiye is prepared to send troops to Ukraine if necessary, Reuters reports.

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