Zelenskyy to meet US President Joe Biden, House Speaker as aid stumbles | Russia-Ukraine war News

Zelenskyy to meet US President Joe Biden, House Speaker as aid stumbles | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukrainian president will travel to Washington, DC as right-wing Republicans baulk at providing more help to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington, DC on Monday for meetings at the White House and the United States Capitol as right-wing US Republicans resist…

Elon Musk brings conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X following poll | Social Media News

Elon Musk brings conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X following poll | Social Media News

Musk says ‘the people have spoken’ after unscientific poll on X backs Jones’s return. Elon Musk has brought  right-wing American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X after holding a poll on his return to the platform. Jones, who was ordered to pay nearly $1.5bn in damages for defaming the…

WHO calls for immediate passage of humanitarian relief into Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

WHO calls for immediate passage of humanitarian relief into Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he hopes resolution will be starting point for further UN action on crisis. The World Health Organization has agreed on a resolution, the first by any United Nations agency, calling for immediate access to vital humanitarian aid and an end to the fighting in Gaza….

Argentina’s Javier Milei tells nation to brace for painful economic shock | Politics News

Argentina’s Javier Milei tells nation to brace for painful economic shock | Politics News

Newly inaugurated libertarian president warns there is ‘no alternative to a shock adjustment’. Argentina’s new President Javier Milei has warned his country’s people to prepare for painful austerity measures as he seeks to turn around decades of economic stagnation and decline. Taking office on Sunday after his upset election last…

Australia inquiry raises hopes for six jailed over alleged 1981 bomb plot | Courts News

Australia inquiry raises hopes for six jailed over alleged 1981 bomb plot | Courts News

Melbourne, Australia – More than four decades after they were convicted in one of Australia’s longest-running criminal trials, the evidence used to jail six former Yugoslav migrants is being re-examined to determine if they were victims of a miscarriage of justice. A rare judicial inquiry in the state of New…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 656 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 656 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 656th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, December 11, 2023. Fighting One civilian was killed and another wounded after Russian forces dropped an explosive from a drone on the town of Beryslav in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson….

Attack on Red Cross convoy in Sudan kills at least two, injures seven | Conflict News

Attack on Red Cross convoy in Sudan kills at least two, injures seven | Conflict News

The ICRC says it is shocked and appalled by the attack, which it described as deliberate. An attack on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Sudanese capital has killed two people and injured seven, says the group. The wounded included three ICRC…

Palestinians call for global strike on Monday to demand immediate ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Palestinians call for global strike on Monday to demand immediate ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Trade union activists and international influencers join call for global strike on December 11 as Israel pummels Gaza. Palestinian activists and grassroots organisations have called for a global strike on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire as Israel continues its aggression on Gaza. The call for the strike has been…

Nearly 300 killed in Gaza in 24 hours as Hamas, Netanyahu trade threats | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Nearly 300 killed in Gaza in 24 hours as Hamas, Netanyahu trade threats | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Fierce fighting has killed nearly 300 Palestinians in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the Palestinian armed group Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged threats. Israeli raids continued across the beleaguered territory on Sunday, including in northern Gaza where entire neighbourhoods have been flattened by air strikes…

Could an Israeli designated safe zone in Gaza become another ‘death zone’? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Could an Israeli designated safe zone in Gaza become another ‘death zone’? | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Rights groups criticise Israeli move to displace Palestinians to a tiny and barren area. Another wave of Palestinians were forced from their homes in Gaza. This time, to a small slice of land in the south designated by Israel as a “safe zone”. But conditions in al-Mawasi are bleak, and…