Category: 4. World
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Turkey blocks instant messaging platform Discord
Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country’s infotech regulator said on Wednesday. Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) published the decision on the… Continue Reading
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Guterres: Knesset bill blocking UNRWA in Israel ‘would be a disaster’
The Knessets’ two bills blocking UNRWA’s activities in Israel “would be a catastrophe,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday. He further asserted that UNRWA has been “indispensable” in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war in… Continue Reading
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World leaders mourn Israeli victims and call for a ceasefire on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack
(JTA) — Days after calling for a halt in arms shipments to Israel and earning a public rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his solidarity with “the pain of the… Continue Reading
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Twenty years in, this Jewish prize has turbocharged the work of a few remarkable humanitarians
NEW YORK — When Sasha Chanoff received the $100,000 Charles Bronfman Prize in 2010 for his work helping refugees worldwide find safe haven, jobs and social stability, he used the occasion of the awards ceremony in New York to introduce a… Continue Reading
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Turkey’s parliament debates Mideast war amid Erdogan’s claims on Israel
Turkey’s lawmakers held a closed-door session on Tuesday to discuss the spread of war in the Middle East, a week after President Tayyip Erdogan made an unsubstantiated claim that Israel eventually aimed to encroach on Turkish territory.
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Israelis arrested for disrupting pro-Palestinian protest in Cyprus
A lawsuit was filed in Nicosia on Monday against two Israeli women, a mother and daughter aged 58 and 24. The two women were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of disrupting a pro-Palestinian demonstration held in Limassol on Saturday, ahead… Continue Reading
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Biden, Isaac Herzog speak on Oct. 7 anniversary
President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli President Isaac Herzog Monday morning on the “solemn occasion” of the one-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas October 7 terrorist attacks, the White House said in a statement on Monday… Continue Reading
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Biden lights yahrzeit candle for Oct. 7 anniversary
President Joe Biden lit a yahrzeit candle at the White House on Monday morning, commemorating the first anniversary of the attacks of October 7, 2023. The president was joined by First Lady Jill Biden and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of Adas Israel… Continue Reading
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Nobel prize for medicine goes to US duo who discovered microRNA
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live. Their work helped explain how cells specialize and… Continue Reading
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UK universities home to large pro-Palestine protests on Oct 7
Pro-Palestine students took to UK campuses on Monday, October 7, staging walk-outs and protests at the same time as vigils were held for the Israeli victims of the Hamas massacre one year ago. Palestine groups at universities across the… Continue Reading
