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WORLD BRIEFING: July 24, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris, in the first rally of her 2024 presidential campaign, behind full throttled attack on Donald Trump. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 26, 2024

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked out of court a free man Wednesday after a hours-long court appearance in which he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and some broke into Parliament and briefly set fire to the entrance on Tuesday, after lawmakers approved tax increases that critics said would drive up the cost of living for millions.

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 10, 2024

Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza is a “mistake,” said US president Joe Biden

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 8, 2024

A new drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a "major nuclear accident", the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 12, 2024

Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said. The EU is pushing to give Ukraine €2bn-€3bn this year from profits derived from Russia’s frozen assets.

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 27, 2024

Hungary’s Parliament voted on Monday to approve Sweden as a new member of NATO. Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in a prisoner swap when he died, according to his ally Maria Pevchikh

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 24, 2024

More death and destruction in Ukraine from Russian missile attacks. Authorities in Russia are set to implement a new law allowing them to seize money or property from those, including journalists, who have been convicted of spreading “fake news” about, or otherwise discrediting, the militaryA stunning new poll came out in Israel showing PM Netanyahu and his party would be obliterated 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 24, 2023

Israel and Hamas start a four-day truce on Friday morning with the militants to release a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages later in the day, the first break in a war that has devastated the besieged Gaza Strip

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 7, 2023

The heads of several major United Nations bodies on Monday made a united call for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify nearly one month into the conflict. The death toll is now said to have surpassed 10,000. A deadly Russian strike on Odesa damaged its famed art museum and several apartment buildings 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 25, 2023

Death toll rises in Gaza as more Israeli refugees are released. The main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees in Gaza could run out of fuel as early as Wednesday. Russia continues to target civilian targets in Ukraine.

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 24, 2023

More aid enters Gaza as Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave. Russia aims at Ukraine power infrastructure ahead of winter. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 23, 2023

Another group of lorries passed into Gaza from Egypt bringing much needed aid. Israel strikes targets in Gaza and the West Bank. A private Ukrainian postal depot was struck by Russian missiles - dead and injured

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 20, 2023

Tensions high as Gazans await the opening of the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt. An important Ukrainian advance to the left side of the Dnipro River 

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 6, 2023

A deadly Russian strike on the Kharkiv region of Ukraine kills 51. The world's September temperatures were the warmest on record, breaking the previous high by a huge margin

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WORLD BRIEFING: September 28, 2023

Canadian PM Trudeau apologises for the visit to the House of Commons of a Ukrainian man who fought with the Nazis. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit and met with President Zelensky. Taiwan launches its first domestically produced submarine. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: September 22, 2023

A missile strikes Russia’s naval HQ in occupied Crimea. Tensions between Delhi and Ottawa continue to escalate. Leader of Congo says time for UN peacekeepers to leave

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WORLD BRIEFING: September 21, 2023

Russian missiles and artillery pounded cities across Ukraine early Thursday, sparking fires, killing at least three people and trapping others under the rubble of destroyed buildings, authorities said, as Poland said it would stop providing weapons to its ally amid a trade dispute.

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WORLD BRIEFING: August 27, 2023

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in plane crash, Russian officials say. The Zimbabwean leader knows as ‘the crocodile’ is re-elected 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: April 12, 2023

Ukraine says its forces have repelleddozens of attacks as the invading Russian military pressed on with its offensive in the eastern Donetsk region with air strikes and artillery attacks. Ukraine is at a critical juncture in the war and both the country and its allies must not lose sight of the path to victory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on April 11.

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