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- • 97%apnews.com G20 finance ministers agree to work toward effectively taxing the super-rich
Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations have agreed to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich.
- • 99%www.theguardian.com Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
Labour government says it will not pursue questions on court’s jurisdiction over Netanyahu and Gallant
- • 93%apnews.com India and China agree to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of troops on their disputed border
India says it has agreed with China to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff.
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> NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India’s government said. > > Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Thursday on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Laos, where they stressed the need for an early resolution of outstanding issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the long Himalayan border shared by the two Asian giants.
- • 100%www.straitstimes.com US told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort
The Pentagon distributed social media content on the safety and efficacy of China's Sinovac vaccine. Read more at straitstimes.com.
- • 50%www.intellinews.com Russia's economy is booming
Russia’s economy is booming. In the first quarter, Russian GDP grew by 5.4%, higher than in the fourth quarter of last year, albeit boosted by an ...
- • 95%watcher.guru BRICS Officially Announces Financial System Similar to SWIFT
The BRICS alliance will create a new financial messaging system similar to SWIFT and trade in local currencies and not the US dollar.
- • 100%www.bbc.co.uk France trains live updates: Arson attacks on French train network delay thousands of travellers hours before Olympic ceremony
Some 800,000 people are expected to be affected and Eurostar customers are advised to postpone trips if they can.
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> From BBC: > - A series of fires has hit French high-speed rail lines, hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony > - Rail company SNCF says it's a "massive attack aimed at paralysing the network"; France's transport minister condemns the "co-ordinated malicious acts" > - Some 800,000 customers will be affected with disruption expected all weekend, the rail firm says > - Eurostar tells customers to postpone trips if they can, as it faces ongoing disruption > > See also: > - https://apnews.com/live/olympics-opening-ceremony-2024-updates > - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vandals-target-frances-high-speed-rail-network-olympics-get-underway-2024-07-26/ > - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/france-s-high-speed-rail-network-disrupted-by-arson/104148714
- • 96%www.middleeasteye.net Exclusive: UK likely to restrict arms sales to Israel
MEE has learnt that the Labour government is likely to announce some restrictions on arms sales to Israel, but not suspend them entirely
The UK is likely to introduce restrictions on arms sales to Israel, Middle East Eye can reveal. It is also expected to drop its objection to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for senior Israeli leaders.
Well-informed sources within the Labour Party told Middle East Eye that in the coming days the government is likely to introduce some restrictions on arms sales but not suspend sales entirely.
The development comes after Foreign Secretary David Lammy said last week that he requested a comprehensive review of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law on his first day in office.
- • 78%www.statista.com Infographic: U.S. Image Deteriorates in Parts of Asia
This chart shows the share of Asian respondents who say U.S. democracy is not/no longer a good example for other countries to follow.
- • 94%www.kyivpost.com Reports: Russia Hits NATO Member Romania With Kamikaze Drone
Although Kremlin strike planners probably didn’t intend to hit a NATO member, Romania’s military launched F-16s fighters and said it would investigate.
A Russian kamikaze drone on Wednesday flew into NATO air space and detonated near a Romanian village, Ukrainian news reports said, but official Bucharest said the fact of the strike wasn’t confirmed and that they would check.
Ukrainian social media video recorded in the river port city of Izmail, opposite Plaura, showed an orange flash lighting up the night horizon and a booming blast on the Romanian side of the river. Flames and smoke reaching hundreds of meters into the sky were visible following the explosion. A Russian kamikaze drone strike against Izmail had been in progress at the time.
- • 95%orinocotribune.com Venezuela: President Maduro Closes Presidential Campaign With Massive Rally Filling Caracas Streets
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On the last day of Venezuela’s presidential campaign and just three days before the presidential elections, scheduled for this Sunday, incumbent candidate and cur…
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Israel’s male flagbearer at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is believed to have signed bombs prior to them being fired against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu has reported. Peter Paltchik, 32, used social media to show him writing “From me to you with pleasure” on munitions destined for Gaza.
- www.washingtonpost.com How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe
U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?
- • 97%www.theguardian.com UN chief urges wealthy countries to beat fossil fuel ‘addiction’ amid expansions
Secretary general said wealthiest countries are ‘signing away our future’ with more production and called for phase-out of fossil fuels
- www.cnn.com US arrests alleged Sinaloa cartel leader and son of ‘El Chapo’ in Texas sting operation | CNN
An alleged Mexican drug kingpin suspected of flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl and who evaded authorities for decades is in US custody after he was apparently lured across the border by federal agents.
- • 87%apnews.com UK drops plans to challenge ICC arrest warrant request against Benjamin Netanyahu
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says the U.K. will not interfere with the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- • 62%www.telegraph.co.uk Ukraine takes down its own drones in ‘friendly fire’ as Russia makes large advance
Moscow targets poorly organised and vulnerable units in Donetsk region as Kyiv’s electronic warfare capabilities hinder its own progress
- • 76%www.presstv.ir US-occupied airbase comes under fresh attack in Iraq
An airbase housing the US’s occupation forces in western Iraq comes under fresh attack.
- • 98%www.theguardian.com Australia imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers and youth group over violent attacks on Palestinians
Penny Wong says settler violence in West Bank includes ‘beatings, sexual assault and torture’ as she announces Magnitsky-style sanctions
- • 84%apnews.com China issues rare praise to Philippine president for his ban on Chinese online gambling operators
China has issued a rare compliment to the administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for his order banning widespread and Chinese-run online gaming operations.
- www.middleeasteye.net The World Court has just cleared the fog hiding western support for Israel’s crimes
The legal ruling by the world's highest court obliges western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own
- • 93%www.theguardian.com Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’
Allies of the 73-year-old anti-whaling activist Paul Watson have said that prison time would amount to a ‘life sentence’
- • 95%www.middleeasteye.net Emirati passports discovered in Sudan suggest UAE boots on the ground
The UAE has long been accused of drawing out the conflict in Sudan through its involvement
Emirati passports recovered in Sudan have provided damning evidence that the UAE has been intervening in the conflict in the north African country.
According to the Guardian, a document sent to the UN Security Council and seen by the newspaper contains images allegedly found in Sudan and linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the country since April 2023.
Middle East Eye has reported previously on the extensive support the UAE provides for the RSF through a network of supply routes that run through Libya, Chad, Uganda and Central African Republic.
The UAE continues to deny that it is arming and supplying the RSF, which is led by its longtime ally Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the general and former Janjaweed commander known as Hemeti.
International human rights groups have found “clear and compelling evidence” that the RSF is committing genocide against “non-Arab groups” in Darfur, the vast western region of Sudan that is now almost entirely controlled by the paramilitary force.
- www.bbc.com Philippines: Industrial fuel tanker capsizes, causing oil spill
Authorities say an oil spill has been detected but rough seas are hampering their response.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18378351
- • 90%www.forbes.com A Ukrainian Brigade Collapsed—And Now Hundreds Of Soldiers Are Surrounded Near Prohres
Two battalions face a hard choice: fight their way out or hope for rescue
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- • 97%open.substack.com Leaked UN report: Israeli war has killed 366 UN staff and family members as Netanyahu prepares to address Congress
The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza
- • 99%www.theguardian.com HIV ‘vaccine’ could be made for just $40 a year for every patient
Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say
- www.bbc.com New Zealand landmark report finds 200,000 suffered abuse in care
The report found that thousands suffered a litany of abuses, including rape and electric shocks.
- www.middleeasteye.net China challenges the West by giving Palestinians a new platform
Beijing's hosting of reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah is latest example of growing influence in the Middle East, say analysts
As 14 Palestinian leaders lined up for a photograph in Beijing on Tuesday, they each made sure to shake hands afterwards with one man: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Tuesday’s Palestinian unity talks, where an agreement for a post-war Gaza framework was signed, were an opportunity for China to provide a rival platform to Israel and its western allies on the future of Palestine and the Middle East.
“China’s major goal is to gain consent and acknowledgment among regional countries regarding its rising status as a responsible country with a superior moral role compared to the US,” Razan Shawamreh, a Palestinian expert on China's foreign policy in the region, told Middle East Eye.
For Hamas, China-backed discussions give it a rare platform to participate in international forums.
- • 88%www.washingtonpost.com How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe
U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?
- www.cnn.com Sharks in Brazil test positive for cocaine, say scientists | CNN
Sharks living off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, according to new research, the first time that the drug has been detected in free-ranging sharks.
The Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval on Monday to a bill that declares the main United Nations relief organisation for Palestinians a terrorist organisation and proposes to sever relations with the body, Reuters reports.
The vote against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is the latest step in an Israeli push against the Agency, which Israeli leaders have accused of collaborating with the Hamas Movement in Gaza.
Israel has said hundreds of UNRWA staff are members of terrorist groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but has yet to provide evidence to a UN-appointed review.
