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> The Shin Bet security agency on Monday said it recently foiled an attempt by terror groups in the Gaza Strip to carry out a bombing attack in Israel using West Bank terror operatives.
> Terror operatives from the Gaza Strip that allegedly directed a West Bank cell to carry out a bombing attack in Israel in December 2022, clockwise from top right: Ahmed Fathi Omar Hajaj, Sabari Aram, Amin Zakot, Jihad Ahmed, Maha Ladawi.
> "Israel views the terror activity directed from the Gaza Strip toward the West Bank and Israel with severity, and works to thwart any threat ahead of time, and considers Hamas to be responsible for all terror activity emanating from the Gaza Strip," the agency said.
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> Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dispatched the army chief on Sunday night to the border with Kosovo, General Milan Mojsilovic himself announced, as strained relations between the two countries were exacerbated by recent blockades.
> Hundreds of ethnic Serbs, outraged over the arrest of an ex-police officer, set up roadblocks on December 10 in Serb-majority northern Kosovo which have paralysed traffic through two border crossings.
> In November, hundreds of Serbian police officers embedded in the Kosovo police - as well as judges, prosecutors and other officials - walked off the job to protest against a controversial decision to ban Serbs living in Kosovo from using Serbian-issued licence plates.
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> China's military says it has conducted "Strike drills" in the sea and airspace around Taiwan in response to what it says is provocation from the democratically governed island and the United States.
> China staged war games around Taiwan in August after a visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and on Saturday, it condemned the US for a new defence authorisation law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan.
> In a brief statement, the Eastern Theatre Command of the Chinese army said it had carried out "Joint combat readiness patrols and joint firepower strike drills" around Taiwan.
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Reply to Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters walked into the capital on Saturday as part of a 5-month-long cross-country “unity march” seeking to challenge what they say is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the Hindu nationalist government by DoremusJessup
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> Joined by thousands of party workers and senior leaders, the march led by Rahul Gandhi, an opposition leader of the Congress party and scion of the influential Gandhi family, entered New Delhi after passing through eight states.
> Hindu nationalism has surged under Modi and his party, which have been criticized over rising hate speech and violence against Muslims in recent years.
> With a national election less than 16 months away, it could determine whether India's beleaguered opposition can put up a fight against the electoral juggernaut of Modi's party that won the majority in 2014 and 2019.
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> Japan's coast guard has said that two Chinese government ships which entered Japan's territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday both left on Sunday morning.
> The Chinese ships' intrusion into Japan's territorial waters broke the previous record of a similar incident that lasted for 64 hours and 17 minutes between July 5 and 7 of this year.
> The Japanese coast guard remained on alert after warning the vessels against re-entering Japan's waters.
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> The United States embassy in Islamabad has warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel as Pakistan's capital is already on high alert two days after a suicide bombing.
> The US government has obtained information that "Unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays", the embassy said in a security alert on Sunday.
> A suicide bombing targeted Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in September 2008 in one of the deadliest such incidents in the capital.
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Reply to Australia and China team up to protest WTO blockages caused by US vetoes on appeal body | Australian foreign policy by Witty-Village-2503
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> Australia has teamed up with China and more than 100 countries to protest longstanding blockages at the World Trade Organization as the United States vetoes appeal judge appointments.
> Australia and China remain at odds over specific trade disputes between them - such as Beijing's tariffs on Australian wine and barley - but are united in concern about the years-long disruption to a key appeal body.
> Australia and China were among a large number of co-sponsors of a proposal put to a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body in Geneva on Tuesday.
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> As stated in the release, the researchers were mapping some of Guatemala when they stumbled across what they describe as a massive ancient Maya civilization.
> Another finding that contradicts notions that early Mesoamerican settlements tended to be sparsely populated is that the individuals who formerly resided in the settlements had been closely clustered.
> The researchers also discovered that the inhabitants of the civilization had constructed reservoirs and canals to move and store water for usage during dry spells.
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Reply to Canadian doctors raise alarm as Iranian healthcare workers targeted by regime | Globalnews.ca by No_Dependent_5066
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> Fathi, in conjunction with her sources inside the country, have created a database to track Iranian healthcare workers arrested, kidnapped and killed by the regime.
> The dangers facing Iranian doctors have been recognized by medical associations across European and in North America, and the Canadian Medical Association released a statement calling on the Islamic Republic to let doctors do their jobs without interference.
> The British Medical Association also released a statement calling on the regime to "Cease persecution of health professionals" who treat those injured by the Islamic Republic's forces, and the World Medical Association is demanding the immediate and unconditional end to violence against Iranian healthcare professionals.
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Reply to Taliban's order to foreign, local NGOs: Don't allow female employees | World News by EagleOfMay
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> Afghanistan's Taliban ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, Reuters reported.
> The latest crackdown on women's rights in the country comes as the letter said the female employees were not allowed to work until further notice because some had not adhered to the administration's interpretation of Islamic dress code for women.
> Earlier, Associated Press reported that Taliban security forces used a water cannon to disperse women protesting the ban on university education.
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> In November, five Palestinian men were killed by Israeli forces in four separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
> After record tourism numbers in 2019, hopes had been high that 2020 would be even better - but those hopes were dashed when Covid led to strict lockdowns across the occupied West Bank.
> Where the economy is reliant on tourism, is seeing "More and more tourists", said Palestinian Tourism Minister Rola Maayah.
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Reply to Ukraine Russia War Live Map: fighting overview, December 15-21. Near Bakhmut, Russian forces have concentrated the most combat-capable units of the Wagner PMC mercenaries, artillery and other equipment. Espreso News TV Ukraine by IceLArk
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> Due to the fact that Ukraine's Armed Forces destroyed two large munitions depots in Kadiivka and Irmino at the end of the week, the use of Russian artillery, which is concentrated around Bakhmut, significantly decreased.
> At the same time, the military notes that it was near Bakhmut that the occupying Russian forces for the first time during the war began to outnumber the Ukrainian troops in drones and thermal imaging, which enabled them to conduct successful night attacks in open terrain.
> From the east, the enemy began to destroy private buildings on the left bank of the Bakhmutivka River the Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted successful counterattacks and partially drove the Russian enemy away from the residential buildings into the industrial area.
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Reply to Far-right anti-Arab party joins proposed Netanyahu coalition in Israel | Israel by Cumberbound
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> Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that an extremist anti-Arab party will join his new coalition as he prepares to return as prime minister for what would be the most rightwing government in Israel's history.
> The agreement, which further heightens the powers of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the firebrand head of the Jewish Power party and incoming national security minister, came hours after Netanyahu informed the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, that he had succeeded in forming a government.
> The outgoing finance minister, Avigdor Lieberman, termed the coalition a "Government of darkness" that could lead Israel to being a state of halacha, or strict Jewish law.
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> Spain's lower house of parliament has passed a law allowing people over the age of 16 to change their legally registered gender without any medical supervision, putting the country on track to become one of the first few to allow transgender people to change their status with a simple declaration.
> 'Before and after' moment Until now, transgender adults needed a diagnosis from several doctors of gender dysphoria - which is the psychological condition of not feeling a match between one's biological sex and gender identity - to change their status.
> In Europe, Denmark was the first country to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change their legal gender in 2014.
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Reply to ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists | The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users. by MortWellian
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> Continue reading the main story In the hopes of allaying national security fears, ByteDance has moved the data of U.S. users to a cloud storage system operated by Oracle, the Silicon Valley software company.
> TikTok has been locked in negotiations with the Biden administration on that security plan to move all U.S. data and erect walls around the data to prevent access by the Chinese government.
> "This new development reinforces serious concerns that the social media platform has permitted TikTok engineers and executives in the People's Republic of China to repeatedly access private data of U.S. users despite repeated claims to lawmakers and users that this data was protected," Mr. Warner said.
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> Hospitals in China appear to be filling up amid concerns about a fresh Covid-19 wave hitting the country, the World Health Organization says.
> In recent days hospitals in Beijing and other cities have been filling up as the latest Covid surge hits China.
> China has developed and produced its own vaccines, which have been shown to be less effective at protecting people against serious Covid illness and death than the mRNA vaccines used in much of the rest of the world.
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Reply to UK says Russia set to give Iran military tech that will destabilize Middle East by nahalkishon
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> Britain warned on Tuesday that Russia is set to provide Iran with advanced military technology that will threaten security in the Middle East and around the world.
> Moscow will supply the military components to Tehran in return for Iranian attack drones which Russia has been using in its invasion of Ukraine, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told parliament.
> "Iran has become one of Russia's top military backers. In return for having supplied more than 300 kamikaze drones, Russia intends to provide it with advanced military components, undermining both Middle East and international security. We must expose this deal."
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> JERUSALEM - Designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late Wednesday that he has successfully formed a new coalition, setting the stage for him to return to power as head of the most right-wing Israeli government ever to hold office.
> ADVERTISEMENT. Even if he is successful, Netanyahu faces a difficult task ahead. He will preside over a coalition dominated by far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners pushing for dramatic changes that could alienate large swaths of the Israeli public, raise the risk of conflict with the Palestinians and put Israel on a collision course with some of its closest supporters, including the United States and the Jewish American community.
> Before the government is sworn in, Netanyahu will try to push through a series of laws needed to expand Ben-Gvir's authority over the police and to create a new ministerial position granting Smotrich powers in the West Bank that in the past were held by the defense minister.
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Reply to UN human rights chief says UK should rethink plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda by glawgii
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> The new UN human rights chief has urged the British government to reconsider its plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning that in the past similar "Offshoring" schemes had led to "Deeply inhuman" treatment of refugees.
> Türk, an Austrian lawyer and former assistant high commissioner at the UN refugee agency, said he had seen how Australia's offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, had been marked by human rights abuses.
> "The way that asylum seekers were treated in Nauru and Manus was deeply, deeply inhuman," said Türk. The UK government rejects any comparison between the two schemes as "Fundamentally wrong", insisting that the deportees will have their asylum claims processed by Rwanda in accordance with international human rights law and will not be detained while that process is ongoing.
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> German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Chinese President Xi Jinping, asking him to influence Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to stop his war against Ukraine, CNN reported on Dec. 20.
> During the hour-long conversation, the German president confirmed Berlin's determination to continue supporting Ukraine.
> On Dec. 17, CIA Director William J. Burns said that Xi Jinping was concerned about the failure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine because it was affecting Chinese plans for a potential seizure of Taiwan.
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> The Taliban have released two Americans that had been in detention in Afghanistan, the state department said on Tuesday - the same day that the group faced condemnation for banning women at universities.
> Speaking at a daily press briefing, Price said Washington was continuing to raise with the Taliban the need to release any US nationals still held in Afghanistan, but declined to provide who they may be and how many people may be held there.
> "We are in a position to welcome the release of two American nationals from detention in Afghanistan. We are providing these to US nationals with all appropriate assistance. They will soon be reunited with their loved ones," Price said.
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> WARSAW, Poland - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced the S-400 air defense systems and Iskander missiles the country has received from Russia have been put "On combat duty."
> "Today, we put on combat duty the S-400 complex, which you handed over to Belarus, and, most importantly, the Iskander complex, which you also, having promised it six months ago, handed over to us," Lukashenko said, as quoted in a statement released by the Russian president's office.
> The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank, said in a recent analysis that "Lukashenko uses the rhetoric of defending Belarusian borders against the West and NATO in an effort to avoid participating in the Russian invasion of Ukraine."
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> Designs for bank notes featuring an image of King Charles III have been revealed by the Bank of England, with plans to enter circulation by mid-2024.
> More than 4.7bn Bank of England notes featuring the Queen remain in circulation, worth about £82bn. It comes after the gradual phasing out of paper bank notes and the bringing in of those printed on polymer - a thin and flexible plastic material - since the introduction of the £5 note featuring Winston Churchill on the reverse in 2016.
> Although the note designs revealed by the Bank will feature a new portrait of the monarch, the reverse side will remain unchanged, with the author Jane Austen on the £10 notes, the artist JMW Turner on the £20 ones and the computer scientist Alan Turing on the £50 notes.
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> Greece has reportedly expressed its willingness to transfer its Russian-built long-range S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine if the United States replaces them with a MIM-104 Patriot.
> On Dec. 1, Ukrainian Defense Minister Olekssi Reznikov said Ukraine is "Currently negotiating with the defense ministers of all countries that have S-300s in service regarding the possibility of replenishing stocks of missiles from their warehouses and arsenals."
> Receiving Greece's S-300 and other Russian systems in the Greek and Cypriot arsenals could also help Ukraine bolster its air defenses at this crucial moment when Kyiv needs everything it can get to fend off these drone and missile onslaughts.
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Reply to The civilians caught up in the Russian shelling attack on the city of Kherson early on Dec. 24 suffered a horrific catalog of injuries, from eye injuries to the loss of lower limbs by sviterochec
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> The civilians caught up in the Russian shelling attack on the city of Kherson early on Dec. 24 suffered a horrific catalog of injuries, from eye injuries to the loss of lower limbs, Health Minister Viktor Liashko reported in a post on Facebook.
> Earlier, Liashko traveled to Kherson to check the condition of the city's hospitals to provide medical aid to all persons injured in the numerous recent Russian attacks on the city.
> The invaders shelled the city of Kherson with Grad multiple rocket launchers on Dec. 24 at 11:00 a.m. Six cars were set on fire in the attack.
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