World Briefing: November 29, 2024

Protesters clashed with police in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi on Thursday after the government suspended talks on its bid to join the European Union for four years. Hezbollah accused Israel of attacking people returning to border villages, with Israel's military saying it had opened fire on an arrival of "suspects" detected in several areas in southern Lebanon.

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Michael Bociurkiw
World Briefing: November 27, 2024

A cease-fire deal to stop the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has been announced.

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World Briefing: November 24, 2024

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is endangering is endangering aircraft in some of the world’s busiest skies. Negotiators at a global climate conference in Baku struck a last-minute deal for wealthy countries to help their poorer neighbors deal with global warming, saving the annual meeting as it verged on collapse.

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World Briefing: November 22, 2024

ICC issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. Vladimir Putin said his military fired a new intermediate-range missile into Ukraine 

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World Briefing: November 21, 2024

Ukraine says Russia fired RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile from its territory on its attack on Dnipro today. U.S. regulators demanding that Google be broken up to prevent it from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine

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World Briefing: November 18, 2024

US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia. A top UN official warns of a mass displacement crisis in Ukraine after Russian attacks on critical infrastructure as winter takes hold

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World Briefing: November 16, 2024

Iran sent a message to the Biden administration in October saying that it was not trying to kill Donald J. Trump, as Tehran attempted to ease rising tensions with Washington. Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging the Kremlin leader to end the war against Ukraine and negotiate with Kyiv for a "just and lasting peace.”

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World Briefing: November 15, 2024

The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief say. Trump taps vaccine-denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

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World Briefing: November 11, 2024

The UN has warned 2024 will be the hottest year on record. Trump's Republican Party are edging closer to full control of the US Congress. They already have a majority in the Senate and need to win just a handful of seats to take the House of Representatives.

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Michael BociurkiwComment
World Briefing: November 10, 2024

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is about to become the most powerful civilian ever, if he hasn’t already. Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be assuming that Donald Trump will defer to the Kremlin's interests and preferences without offering any concessions or benefits in return

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