PARIS: The French helicopter carrier Dixmude has docked in Egypt and could start treating wounded children from Gaza later this week, defence minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, as Western powers look to ramp up efforts to aid the enclave. It is the first Western military ship to dock in …
Read More »Pauline Hanson makes explosive claims about why most voted NO to The Voice – before unleashing on Indigenous Australians in one of her most explosive speeches to date
Pauline Hanson has made explosive claims about why many Australians voted no to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, before hitting out at the term ‘Traditional Owners’ in a fiery speech that sparked outrage in parliament. On Monday One Nation leader Senator Hanson approvingly read out to the Senate a comment …
Read More »Bonds underwear takes brutal swipe at Taylor Swift over ticket sales to her Australian Eras Tour
By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:51 GMT, 28 November 2023 | Updated: 09:14 GMT, 28 November 2023 Taylor Swift is soon coming to Australia for her Eras Tour. But for many fans getting tickets has been a nightmare, and that thought hasn’t been lost on the Bonds underwear …
Read More »New Zealand’s New Government Says It Will Scrap Smoking Ban
New Zealand’s new right-wing government has said it will repeal a law that would have gradually banned all cigarette sales in the country over the course of several decades. The law, passed by a previous government led by Jacinda Ardern, a prime minister who became an international liberal icon, took …
Read More »N Korea defends satellite launch at UN, as Kim ‘studies’ images of Pentagon | United Nations News
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 …
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