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  • NewsReuters

    Norway calls on donors to resume funding to Palestinian UNRWA agency

    Norway called on international donors on Tuesday to resume payments to the UN agency for Palestinians refugees (UNRWA) after a report found Israel had yet to provide evidence that some UNRWA staff were linked to terrorist groups. The United States, Britain and others earlier this year paused payments to UNRWA following Israel's claims, while Norway, also a major donor to the organisation, argued that funding cuts put the population of Gaza at risk.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Ukraine halts embassy support for military-age men who ‘do not care about the homeland’

    Ukraine has stripped military-age men abroad of access to consular support except for help in organising their return home in an effort to boost conscription.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    US Senate to vote on Ukraine aid, potential TikTok ban

    The US Senate could vote Tuesday on a major aid package for Ukraine, in legislation that also includes assistance for Israel and Taiwan and sets the stage to ban social media app TikTok.The final package outlines a whopping $95 billion in total military assistance to US allies, including money for Israel and Taiwan alongside the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine.

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  • NewsExmouth Journal

    Exeter's Professor Helen Berry inducted into Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars

    University of Exeter academic has been honoured for her work to promote social justice by Morehouse College, one of the United States of America’s foremost Historic Black universities.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Decomposed body of boy who went missing in 2020 is found - months after mom died not knowing what happened to him

    Three months after Jaylen Griffin’s disapperance, his 18-year-old brother was shot dead near his home

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  • NewsSky News

    Irish PM Simon Harris apologises to families for their 'living nightmare' over Stardust nightclub fire

    The Irish premier has apologised on behalf of the state over the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire in which 48 people died. A decades-long fight for justice culminated last week in an inquest finding that they had all been unlawfully killed in the Dublin tragedy. Taoiseach Simon Harris said the state had failed families when "you needed us most" - and politicians stood in applause in parliament to acknowledge family members in the public gallery.

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Ukraine has only six months left

    Last summer there were high expectations that Ukraine’s major counter offensive would succeed in driving Russian forces back, setting the stage for victory. That didn’t happen; instead the offensive faltered and gained little ground. This failure can be laid squarely at the feet of Western refusal to supply adequate military aid. The result was a silent backlash in domestic politics both sides of the Atlantic, which undoubtedly contributed to the US president’s failure to get a further aid packa

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