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'Peaceful' pro-Palestinian protesters face US Capitol police outside DNC headquarters
Nov 16, 2023 09:38US Capitol police officers have clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, DC, as demonstrators say their call for a ceasefire in Gaza was "nonviolent".
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Biden hails ‘most productive’ talks with China’s Xi yet many critical issues not tackled
Nov 16, 2023 09:37US President Joe Biden has hailed the “most constructive and productive” talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on curbing illicit fentanyl and restoring military communications, although the pair did not tackle many critical issues lingering unresolved between Washington and Beijing.
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UNSC calls for Gaza 'humanitarian pauses'; Palestinian envoy says resolution failed to condemn Israel
Nov 16, 2023 07:36The United Nations Security Council has called for "extended humanitarian pauses" in the Gaza Strip, breaking its silence after 40 days of an unrelenting genocidal war by the Israeli regime.
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West and it's never-ending hypocrisy
Nov 16, 2023 07:08Western officials' positions on the war in Gaza and Ukraine have been characterized by blatant hypocrisy. They describe the genocide in Gaza as Israel's right to self-defense while they denounce Russia for the so-called humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and arm it.
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Columbia University students form coalition to push for divestment from Israel
Nov 16, 2023 05:39More than 40 student groups at Columbia University have formed a coalition to demand the university divest from Israeli apartheid and “challenge the settler-colonial violence” that Israel has been perpetrating with the support of the United States and its allies.
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‘Israeli crime of genocide’: Lawyers for Gaza file case to International Criminal Court
Nov 16, 2023 04:28A group of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of the Israeli offensive against the people of the besieged Gaza Strip has filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that Israel’s actions amount to the crime of genocide.
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Erdogan says ‘terrorist state’ of Israel seeks ‘total destruction’ of Gaza
Nov 15, 2023 13:05Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blasted Israel as a “terrorist state” that seeks the “full destruction” of the densely-populated Gaza Strip, which has been under massive bombardment for over five weeks.
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Russia’s Lavrov warns Israeli provocations may drag Iran, Hezbollah into Gaza war
Nov 15, 2023 12:43Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that Iran and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah may decide to get engaged in the ongoing war in Gaza if they are provoked by Israeli actions.
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UN says racism ‘systemic’ in US; fight against discrimination at ‘critical juncture’
Nov 15, 2023 11:16A United Nations special rapporteur has expressed shock at the “mutually reinforcing manifestations of systemic racism” in the United States, saying the country is at a “critical juncture” in the fight against racism.
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Nicaragua voices solidarity with Palestinians in face of Israel’s ‘terrorist aggression’
Nov 15, 2023 09:52Nicaraguan authorities have reiterated the Central American nation’s unequivocal support for the Palestinian people and their leadership in the face of the ongoing Israeli military onslaught against defenseless residents of the besieged Gaza Strip.