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Lapid calls UN’s treatment of Israel a ‘diplomatic equivalent of a psychotic episode’
Lapid discussed the need to create a new organization of “democratic nations”, while he pointed out the bias that exists towards Israel currently in the UN. Opposition leader Yair Lapid called the United Nations treatment of Israel “the diplomatic equivalent of a psychotic episode,” in an op-ed written for Fox News on Wednesday. “The idea…
Read MoreLeaked documents expose Hamas’s exploitation of Gaza hospitals
Hamas also tracked UNRWA, WHO, Doctors Without Borders, and Red Cross staff inside Gaza hospitals, framing aid groups as potential intelligence threats. Hamas has exploited hospitals and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip for military purposes for years, according to a new report published by NGO Monitor on Wednesday. The findings are based on internal…
Read MoreGibraltar celebrates its national day as it looks ahead to easier border crossings with Spain
MADRID (AP) — Gibraltarians gathered Wednesday for national day celebrations months before a fence separating the contested territory at the tip of the Iberian peninsula from Spain was expected to be dismantled. It was the first such celebration since the European Union and the U.K. reached a deal in June to ease cross-border trade and…
Read MoreMuted German reaction to EU halt on payments to Israel
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has said Berlin has “taken note” of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s decision to halt EU payments to Israel over the country’s conduct in Gaza and Qatar. The German minister, speaking alongside his Dutch counterpart in Berlin, refrained from commenting further, but only said that his government was…
Read More‘Block everything’: Nationwide protests raise travel tensions across France
France is dealing with a day of gridlock as a grassroots movement to ‘block everything’ threatens to paralyse the country’s transport networks and create havoc for commuters and tourists in the country. The demonstrations, branded Bloquons Tout (‘let’s block everything’), are part of a nationwide strike against the now ex-Prime Minister François Bayrou’s proposed austerity…
Read MoreJihadists ‘summarily executed’ 127 people in Niger, says rights group
Nearly 130 people have been “summarily executed” by Islamist insurgents in Niger in separate attacks since March, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The rights group says gunmen carried out a series of brutal attacks, including a mass murder at a mosque in the western Tillabéri region in June, where more than 70…
Read MoreGerman minister links conditions faced by Jewish artists to Nazi era
German Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer believes anti-Semitism is on the rise in the German and European cultural sector, claiming the situation is similar to that under the Nazi regime when Jewish artists were banned from performing at all. Many artists are no longer allowed on stage, Weimer told the deputy editor-in-chief of…
Read MoreShock as Kenyan lawyer killed in drive-by shooting in Nairobi
Kenya has been left in shock after the killing of a senior lawyer in a drive-by shooting on a busy street in the capital Nairobi. Mathew Kyalo Mbobu, a respected lawyer and former head of a political parties’ dispute tribunal, was driving home on Tuesday evening when a gunman on a motorcycle pulled alongside his…
Read MoreTesla continues its skid in mainland China as August electric car sales, market share fall
Tesla is gradually losing its appeal in China’s premium electric vehicle (EV) segment as its sales and market share fall. The US carmaker handed 57,152 Shanghai-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over to customers on the mainland last month, down 9.9 per cent from a year earlier, according to the China Passenger Car Association…
Read More3 migrants die trying to cross the English Channel from France
PARIS (AP) — Three migrants have died after attempting to cross the English Channel from northern France, and at least three others are believed to be missing, local authorities said on Wednesday. The Pas-de-Calais department’s prefecture said the three people who died overnight were trying to reach Britain through the perilous waterway. Local authorities believe…
Read MoreProtesters clash with police in Paris as ‘Block Everything’ movement gains momentum
PARIS (AP) — Protesters clashed with police early Wednesday in Paris, where garbage bins were set on fire, as the government deployed an exceptional 80,000 police for a day of nationwide action under the slogan “Block Everything.” The protesters, angry at French President Emmanuel Macron over his leadership and austerity policies, are planning to disrupt…
Read MorePoland says it shot down Russian drones that repeatedly violated its airspace
Poland says it shot down several drones that violated the Russia-Poland border. The prime minister said the Polish armed forces downed drones that could have posed a threat. Warsaw’s Chopin Airport said it had temporarily stopped flight operations. Poland said it shot down multiple Russian drones that violated its airspace early Wednesday morning. Poland’s Operational…
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