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World Briefing: October 17, 2024

Stray dogs are eating the dead in the streets of northern Gaza, an emergency services chief says. UK investigating the origins of a package that caught fire at a DHL depot in Birmingham, amid heightened fears that Russian agents are intent on causing “mayhem” on Britain’s streets.

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World Briefing: October 4, 2024

Apparent Israeli bombing has caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport.  Cambodian authorities have arrested and charged an award-winning journalist in apparent reprisal for his investigative journalism

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World Briefing: September 2, 2024

The head of Israel's biggest labour union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets. Kharkiv, Ukraine gets pounded by more Russian missiles - dozens of victims 

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 19, 2024

Russia is scouring China for second-hand machine tools using shadowy networks of buyers, as the Kremlin races to secure vital equipment to increase arms production. Russian commanders have ordered not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner but to behead them instead, Ukraine says. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 19, 2024

The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 8, 2024

President Biden used his State of the Union address on Thursday to launch a series of fiery attacks against former President Donald Trump  French President Emmanuel Macron repeats suggestion of troops on Ukraine soil. Sacked Ukraine army chief becomes Kyiv’s envoy to London. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 29, 2024

Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack overnight on a small US outpost in Jordan, US officials told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 8, 2024

Another massive Russian missile & rocket attack early this morning in Ukraine: 59 different types of missiles and drones aimed to points nationwide. Israel says its forces carried out new attacks against Hamas militants in central and southern Gaza, as well as airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 29, 2023

At least 18 people were killed and well over 100 wounded in a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine - including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukraine's military says Russia launched a "massive" attack with 158 drones and missiles - the air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously"

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 20, 2023

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hints at mobilisation of up to 500,000

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 10, 2023

Dozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 5, 2023

Israeli protesters reportedly broke through barricades at the prime minister’s residence in Tel Aviv. The U.S. top diplomat’s shuttle diplomacy appears to have produced few results. 

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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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WAR IN UKRAINE: June 23, 2023

Russian missile attack on Khmelnytsky overnight. Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: May 8, 2023

Russia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive. The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear plant indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: March 21, 2023

China's President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a two-day visit and talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is Xi's first visit to Russia since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022 - he's due to have lunch with Putin later, and hold formal talks on Tuesday

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WAR IN UKRAINE: February 11, 2023

Ukrainians across the country woke up Friday to air raid sirens which lasted most of the day. Russian sent dozens of missiles and drones towards major cities just as President Zelensky returned home from a European tour. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 30, 2023

Ukrainian tank crews have arrived in Britain to begin training for their continued fight against Russia, the British Defense Ministry said, just days after Britain and other NATO countries pledged more than 130 tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine's military said on January 29 that its forces had repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, while Russia's Vagner private military group said it had taken control of the village.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 26, 2023

The U.S. is to send 31 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine - along with parts, equipment and training, President Joe Biden has said. The decision follows Germany’s lead to send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and to not stand in way of other countries sending their own German-built tanks. The ECHR agrees to hear a case against Russia in the 2014 downing of Flight Mh17.

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