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Nov
21
2023
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and DAN WILLIAMS
Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt as Israeli tanks encircle second hospital

Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt as Israeli tanks encircle second hospital

WORLD
TWENTY-EIGHT prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza's biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for urgent treatment, while Palestinian authorities and the WHO said 12 people were killed at another Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks. The newborns had been in north Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, where several others died after their incubators were knocked out amid a collapse of medical services during Israel's military assault on Gaza City. Israeli forces seized Shifa last week to search for what they said was a tunnel network belonging to Hamas Islamists built underneath. Hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people left Shifa at the…
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Nov
20
2023
By The African Mirror
U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages

U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages

WORLD
ISRAEL, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the deal. As part of the detailed, six-page agreement, all parties would freeze combat operations for at least five days while "an initial 50 or more hostages are released in smaller groups every 24 hours", the Post reported. Hamas took about 240 hostages during its October 7 rampage inside Israel that killed 1,200 people. The newspaper said overhead surveillance would monitor ground…
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Nov
20
2023
By NATHAN LAYNE
Trump vows to kill Asia trade deal being pursued by Biden if elected

Trump vows to kill Asia trade deal being pursued by Biden if elected

WORLD
DONALD Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden if he were to win the 2024 election and return to the White House. Speaking to supporters in Iowa, Trump said he was against the regional trade deal being negotiated by the Biden administration with 13 other countries, arguing that it would hollow out U.S. manufacturing and trigger job losses. Talks on the trade sections of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which is aimed at offering the region an alternative to China's growing trade…
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Nov
20
2023
By ORIANA BOSELLI, ANTONIO DENTI and PHILIP PULLELLA
Italy’s transgender women thank pope for making them feel ‘more human’

Italy’s transgender women thank pope for making them feel ‘more human’

WORLD
THE run-down beach town of Torvaianica is about 35 kms (20 miles) south of the Vatican. But for transgender women who live there it had seemed light years away until a rapprochement with the Catholic Church that began during the COVID-19 lockdown and led to an invitation to have lunch with Pope Francis on Sunday. Claudia Victoria Salas, 55, and Carla Segovia, 46, both Argentinian, were in a group of transgender people, among about 1,200 poor and homeless people, who attended the lunch on the Church's World Day of the poor. To her surprise, Salas, a former sex worker, found…
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Nov
19
2023
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and JAMES MACKENZIE
Israeli air strikes kill dozens in south Gaza ahead of offensive

Israeli air strikes kill dozens in south Gaza ahead of offensive

WORLD
ISRAELI air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 47 Palestinians, medics said after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it girds for an onslaught against Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Saturday it had received "horrifying" images and footage of scores of people killed and wounded in an attack on a UNRWA school in the Israeli-occupied north. "These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer," UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on social media platform…
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Nov
19
2023
By ANDREW GOUDSWARD
Colorado judge finds Trump engaged in ‘insurrection’ but allows him on ballot

Colorado judge finds Trump engaged in ‘insurrection’ but allows him on ballot

WORLD
A Colorado judge has allowed Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state's election next year but found that he "engaged in insurrection" by sparking the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. The ruling from Judge Sarah Wallace, which is almost certain to be appealed, rejects a bid by a group of Colorado voters to disqualify Trump under a rarely used amendment to the U.S. Constitution that bars officials who have engaged in "insurrection" from holding federal office. The judge found that, as president, Trump was not "an officer of the United States" that…
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Nov
19
2023
By SAURABH SHARMA
Rescuers in India tunnel collapse work on alternative plan on seventh day

Rescuers in India tunnel collapse work on alternative plan on seventh day

WORLD
RESCUERS trying to reach workers trapped for nearly a week in a collapsed highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas began working on an alternate plan after the operation hit a snag the day before. The men have been stuck in the hillside tunnel since Sunday morning after it caved in and are safe, authorities said. The trapped workers have light and receive oxygen, food, water and medicines via a pipe, and can communicate via radios. The new plan involves drilling vertically from the top of the mountain under which 41 workers were trapped while working on a highway tunnel, said D P…
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Nov
18
2023
By MICHAEL MARTINA, TREVOR HUNNICUTT and GREG TORODE
What China’s Xi gained from his Biden meeting

What China’s Xi gained from his Biden meeting

WORLD
WHEN Chinese President Xi Jinping met executives for dinner in San Francisco, he was greeted with not one, but three standing ovations from the U.S. business community. It was one of several public relations wins for the Chinese leader on his first trip in six years to the United States, where he and President Joe Biden reached agreements covering fentanyl, military communications and artificial intelligence on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. All three were outcomes the United States had sought from China rather than the other way around, said two people briefed on the trip. But Xi appeared to…
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Nov
18
2023
By ABIR AHMAR
Doctor says Israeli forces ‘found nothing’, supplies low at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital

Doctor says Israeli forces ‘found nothing’, supplies low at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital

WORLD
A doctor at the Gaza Strip's Al Shifa hospital said that Israeli forces had "found nothing" during searches of the hospital complex and that food and water were running out. Doctor Ahmed El Mokhallalati told Reuters by telephone that despite the "difficult" conditions at the hospital, no babies had died there since Israeli troops entered it on Wednesday. Israel says Hamas has a command centre underneath the hospital, an assertion the Palestinian militant group denies. Reuters has been unable to verify the situation at the hospital independently. "It’s a totally terrifying situation, here the Israeli tanks and the Israeli troops have been…
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