The Israeli military has reportedly bombed a bulldozer that was trying to remove the rubble of destroyed Palestinian infrastructure in central Gaza, wounding two Palestinians despite the ceasefire, reports Wafa news agency.
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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has hailed China’s Xi Jinping for rejecting US President Donald Trump’s proposal to remove all Palestinians from Gaza, a move described as ethnic cleansing by rights groups.
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We have been reporting on intense ongoing demonstrations by Hezbollah supporters in Beirut, protesting against a decision by Lebanon’s government to bar Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital.
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Scores of children caught up in the conflict in eastern DR Congo have been subjected to sexual violence including rape by armed men, according to the UN Children’s Fund ⤵️
Two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent tech titans, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are at loggerheads over the future of the creator of ChatGPT.
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The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Shia Muslim community and known for his development work around the world, has died in Lisbon aged 88.
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An official at Meta’s popular WhatsApp chat service has said Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions targeted 90 of its users, including journalists and members of civil society.
Israeli snipers targeted an electricity transformer in Tulkarem city, occupied West Bank, causing a widespread power outage.
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RFK might as well have ran as a republican or democrat because he shared the same sellout mentality and even compromised his campaign for a scrap of what they got from foreign lobbyists. Fuck him.
The fuck do you people call the Biden administration’s work in 2023 and 2024? genocide denialism, breach of policy standards, straight up lying to the American people to silence criticism of militarist backing of ethnic cleansing using taxpayer money while FEMA pissed out $700 for disaster relief?
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says one of its ambulances has been hit by Israeli sniper fire in the Tal as-Sultan area, west of Rafah in southern Gaza.
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Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory has called out Western politicians for their silence as Israel’s military kills children in the occupied West Bank.
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Gaza faces catastrophic levels of food insecurity, with over 60,000 Palestinian children under the age of five suffering from acute malnutrition, according to Human Rights Watch.
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The world always saw the USA as a warmonger and an infestation that ruined several countries. Takes a special kind of dense to think that the world thinks less of us because of Trump, and not because of the last few presidents’ military contributions.
An Israeli bulldozer was filmed ripping up parts of a road in the occupied West Bank town of al-Yamoun. The Israeli military is conducting its fourth day of a major operation in nearby Jenin.
“Winter and displacement have taken a heavy toll.”
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says at least seven children died of cold in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, amid a drop in temperatures and heavy rains.
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“You’re under arrest.”
“I’m a reporter.”
“I don’t care.”
Read more from Mohawk journalist Isaac White about his arrest and prosecution for covering a land claim demonstration in northern New York in May 2024: freedom.press/issues/mohaw...
A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.
Identity politics has become a defining buzzword in US politics. But how does the far-right employ identity politics? We discuss on #TheTake podcast with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
New air strikes have hit Yemen’s capital Sanaa for the second day in a row, the Houthis said, adding that 'US-British aggression' was to be blamed for the attack.
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At least five people are dead and as many as 200 injured after a car rammed into a crowded Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, the capital of the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt ⤵️ aje.io/0tz90h
Executioners hid behind masks in the guillotine days.
But on Wednesday in IN, they'll hide by excluding the media from the execution of Joseph Corcoran with a controversial drug known to make victims feel like they're drowning.
Gov. Eric Holcomb needs to step in.
Syria's opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says the country is too “exhausted” for another war amid Israeli forces seizing a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights.
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This guy, Amir Satvat for work in helping laid off game devs find work (won the new award Game Changer) and Game of the Year Winner Astrobot for being the first platformer to win & giving credit to the history of platformers. Even though the Game Awards is rigged, these were wholesome af.
-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has announced that his office is starting to resume its activities in Venezuela despite past clashes with President Nicolas Maduro's gov't.
"The idea that the US university is a place of critical thinking, social justice, liberal arts, and making the world a better place is as false as the day is long."
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Time magazine has named President-elect Donald Trump as 2024’s person of the year.
The publication announced its selection Thursday. This is Trump’s second time, after first being selected in 2016. Pop megastar Taylor Swift was 2023’s person of the year.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim says international mediators have resumed negotiating with the Palestinian group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war was within reach.
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On December 5, Amnesty International declared that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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'I lost everything except my life and my daughter’s life'
A Palestinian mother recounts the moment an Israeli bombing destroyed her house, killing her mother and sisters.
Israeli troops hurled stun grenades at a residential building in the southern village of Aitaroun, shattering windows and causing injuries, reports Lebanon's National News Agency.
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Israeli forces once again bombed the so-called “safe zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi and continued air raids on southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah.
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My daughter (16) got her new 'locked down' laptop from her school today.
It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.
I don't think this social media ban is going to work.