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Turkey issues ‘genocide’ arrest warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli officials
Turkey on Friday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and dozens of other Israeli officials on “genocide” charges. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said it has issued warrants against 37 people. Besides Netanyahu, warrants target Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and military chief Eyal Zamir, among others. The warrants charge…
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Congo, Rwanda agree on economic pact in Washington as part of peace process
Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda said in a statement on Friday that they had agreed an economic pact in Washington, as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to implement a peace deal and spur Western investment in the region. Reuters earlier reported that technical teams from the delegations had initialed the Regional Economic Integration Framework on Friday. “The REIF outlines…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s absence sets off alarm bells in Moscow
The news out of Moscow is a bit of non-news: Russia’s top diplomat is still in his job. On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov moved to tamp down intense media speculation about a potential reshuffle at the highest echelon of Russian foreign policy. The reason? Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s prominent absence from a Russian Security Council meeting on Wednesday, when…
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Peru bans Mexico’s President Sheinbaum as diplomatic dispute grows
Peru has declared Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a “persona non grata” who is unable to enter the country, days after severing ties with Mexico amid an escalating diplomatic dispute. Peru’s Congress voted 63 to 34 on Thursday in favour of symbolically barring Sheinbaum from the country after her government granted asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez, after she…
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Trump wants South Africa out of the G20 as it gears up for world summit
The relationship between US President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa has gone from bad to worse this year. South Africa has skated over the latest criticism from US President Donald Trump, who has said he does not think the country should be part of the G20 any longer. Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told the BBC his…
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Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington
Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection. “I have truly loved serving as your voice in Congress, and I have always honored the song of St. Francis, ‘Lord make an instrument of thy peace,’…
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Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet
Pope Leo was elected earlier this year. He originally hails from Chicago, and is the first American Pope in history.Pope Leo has called for “deep reflection” on how migrants are treated in the United States, where he said many people were deeply affected by the controversial policy of mass deportation. In some of his strongest criticism to date of President…
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US lawmakers seek sanctions on Miyetti Allah over alleged religious freedom violations
The United States House of Representatives has called on the Departments of State and Treasury to impose targeted sanctions on individuals and organisations accused of violating religious freedom in Nigeria — including the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore. The call was contained in a bill introduced before the House on Tuesday. According…
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Zohran Mamdani’s historic election as Mayor of New York, by Omoniyi Ibietan
Zohran Kwame Mamdani, 34, a member of the Democratic Party and an unapologetic member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who defeated Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primaries and at the election (because Cuomo ran as an independent in the election after losing the Democratic Party ticket to Zohran), has made history as the first Muslim, first African-South Asian (as…
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Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him…
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