US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will sit out Nagasaki’s peace ceremony over Israel’s exclusion from the annual commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, the embassy said. This year’s ceremony will take place at Nagasaki Peace…
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‘They tried to kill people:’ Rotherham residents despair after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
by adminLike many nondescript hotels in provincial cities around the UK, the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham has been used for years by the British government to house asylum seekers trapped in administrative limbo. There have…
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Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’
by adminIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are returned, but “no one in the world would let us.” In a speech…
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‘We shoot first, ask questions later’: Why some Israeli reservists refuse to go back to Gaza
by adminEvery day for two months, Michael Ofer Ziv spent hours watching grainy, black-and-white footage of the Gaza Strip from a tiny room across the border. As an operations commander, he was tracking Israeli forces inside…
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Hezbollah leader says group will respond but keeping Israelis waiting is part of ‘punishment’
by adminHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his group will respond to Israel “regardless of the consequences” to avenge the assassination of the group’s top commander a week ago, but keeping Israelis waiting is “part of the…
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Hamas announced Tuesday that its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, will replace Ismail Haniyeh as the head of its political bureau, it said in a statement. The Hamas statement said that the movement announces “the…
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At least one person has died and several people have been injured after a hotel collapsed in the popular wine village of Kröv in western Germany overnight. There were 14 people in the building at…
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Thai court orders election-winning party to dissolve in major blow to kingdom’s popular progressive movement
by adminA Thai court on Wednesday ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to be disbanded, a verdict that delivers a major blow to a vibrant progressive movement and one that threatens to bring more political…
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Who is Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate leader of Bangladesh’s interim government?
by adminA Nobel laureate known as the “banker to the poor” will aim to bring stability to Bangladesh after he answered a call by student protesters for him to temporarily lead the restive country following weeks…
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The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations gripped the South Asian nation. The announcement from Army Chief Waker-uz-Zaman came after protesters stormed the official residence of…