The launch of the spy satellite last week was slammed by Western powers as well as Pyongyang’s neighbours. North Korea’s ambassador made a rare appearance at the United Nations Security Council to defend his country’s launch of a spy satellite, as Pyongyang’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un received …
Read More »Military satellites, ‘serious risk’ to civil aviation and shipping — Global Issues
The UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Mohamed Khaled Khiari, told ambassadors the satellite had been loaded onto a rocket launched on 21 November. The National Aerospace Technology Administration of DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – announced that day that it was …
Read More »Hamas, Israel signal possible expansion of hostage-deal criteria
DUBAI: Hamas said it had sought a new truce deal with Israel under which the Palestinian militant group would free hostages beyond the women and children it has already released from the Gaza Strip. The remarks by Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya late on Monday came as Israel expanded the roster …
Read More »Eurostar to Suspend Amsterdam to London Service for 6 Months
Direct train service from Amsterdam to London on the Eurostar, the sleek, fast train that connects Britain to northwestern Europe, will be suspended for six months next year, the train company said. The closing, which will begin in June, is a result of renovations at Amsterdam Centraal Station, from which …
Read More »The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics | Israel-Palestine conflict
The masked Qassam Brigades fighter adjusts his AK-47 assault rifle before he slides into a chair in the Gaza office of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. “Hello, Condoleezza Rice. You have to deal with me now. There is no Abu Mazen [Abbas] any more,” the fighter jokes in an …
Read More »Hopes for a sustainable planet must not ‘melt away’: Guterres — Global Issues
UN Secretary-General António Guterres was briefing reporters in New York after seeing for himself over the weekend the “profoundly shocking” speed at which ice is melting in Antarctica – three times faster than the rate in the early 1990s. New figures reveal that sea ice at the South Pole is …
Read More »Pakistan: Imran Khan to be produced before special court at federal judicial complex today
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police have set up a team of well-equipped police and paramilitary officials to present former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan before a special court at the Federal Judicial Complex on Tuesday in connection with a case lodged under the Official Secrets Act, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. Imran Khan, …
Read More »Woman left mortified after going on a rant about Fiji’s ‘terrible’ health care system on plane – before realising who she was actually speaking to
By David Southwell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:07 GMT, 28 November 2023 | Updated: 05:18 GMT, 28 November 2023 An Australian nurse was left red-faced after bagging Fiji’s health care system while on a plane only to learn she was sitting beside the Pacific Island nation’s prime minister. Queensland …
Read More »Biden Hopes to Alter the Trajectory of the War as Hostages Are Released
After seven weeks of struggling with a crisis that defies easy solutions, President Biden could take solace in saving a single 4-year-old girl whose parents were killed in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. But gratifying as it was to secure the release of Avigail Idan from her Hamas …
Read More »Gaza truce appears set to extend as Israel receives new list of captives | Israel-Palestine conflict News
A truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to be extending into a fifth day as the two sides completed their fourth release of captives from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails under an original four-day truce deal while mediators said the process would continue. Qatar, which along …
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