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today is the deadline for the United States to provide diplomatic assurances to the High Court of the UK prior to the next hearing on May 20

Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to obstruct the entry and distribution of basic humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, especially the Gaza City and North Gaza governorates, threatening to exacerbate and deepen the widespread famine there. These two governorates house at least 300,000 people, according to United...

“We’re getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine....

The European Union has bledged billion of dollars to embrace the idea of a “blue economy” to protect the world’s oceans from damage caused by human activity....

Denmark’s historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire....

“Tinpot dictatorship” fumed one of the National Conservatism Conference organizers....

The international community is pushing for the approval of rigorous standards that track and limit the obsolete objects that can pass through the atmosphere and cause material damage on Earth...

Greek radio and television carried no news and internet portals did not update their websites on Wednesday, as journalists staged a mass walkout to protest low salaries against the backdrop of higher living costs....

The European Commission is pushing for the post-pandemic recovery fund not to be repeated — as well as for conditions on financing of poorer regions....

Authorities say the design of the North Nanjing station takes inspiration from plum blossoms, which the city is known for....

“What little wealth the country does have, including in gas and phosphate, was offered to the Syrian regime’s Russian and Iranian sponsors for their exploitation. If Syrians survive in regime-controlled areas, it’s largely thanks to remittances.”...

The head of Israel’s military has said the country would respond to Iran’s weekend attack as several Western countries urged Israel to avoid an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East....

GENEVA (15 April 2024) – UN experts today deplored the purported use of artificial intelligence (AI) and related military directives by Israel in occupied Gaza leading to an unprecedented toll on the civilian population, housing, vital services and infrastructure....

Under the alter ego “Aussie Cossack”, he posted untrue speculation that a 20-year-old Jewish university student was the attacker who had stabbed and killed five women and one man at a Westfield shopping centre in Sydney....

Speaker rejects pressure to approve package sent over by Senate, leaving its path to passage deeply uncertain...

The ruling Georgian Dream party is once again trying to pass a bill that has been compared to Russia’s “foreign agent” law. Georgia’s president has vowed to veto the bill if it passes parliament....

If the United States and its allies can rush to Israel’s defense in the skies, shooting down dozens of drones and missiles fired by Iran, why can’t they do the same for Ukraine — which has suffered under Russia’s missile attacks for more than two years?...

Australian police have declared Monday’s stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated “terrorist act”....

According to the report, the targets include an Iranian facility in Tehran or a cyberattack....

The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report....