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  • PoliticsThe Guardian

    US military aid: what’s in the $95bn bill and why has it taken so long for Congress to pass?

    On Tuesday the senate passed the long awaited foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Senate finally passes aid bills worth billions to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delay

    The Senate passed the bill 79-18 after months of opposition from isolationist Republicans

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  • NewsAFP

    Old video of a drone caught in power lines falsely linked to Iran attack

    Social media posts appeared to mock Iran over a video purportedly showing one of its drones targeted for Israel caught up in a power line in Iraq. The footage has in fact circulated online since at least February 2024 -- two months before Tehran's unprecedented attack on Israel -- in reports which said it was filmed in Syria.

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Maduro announces return of UN rights office to Venezuela

    President Nicolas Maduro announced Tuesday that a United Nations human rights office would begin operating in Venezuela once again, after it was suspended and its staff ordered to leave in February. The change comes as Maduro is under fire at home and abroad over his leftist government's human rights record as he cracks down on dissent while seeking a third term in power.He has in particular drawn criticism for preventing a widely popular opposition leader from running against him in July electi

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  • NewsAFP

    Top price predicted for long-lost Klimt portrait at Vienna auction

    A painting by symbolist icon Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century will be sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday despite questions surrounding its provenance.The auction house estimates its value at 30-50 million euros ($32-53 million), but Klimt works have sold for higher prices at recent auctions.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    They stormed the US Capitol in 2021 - now they want to serve there

    Three years ago, Derrick Evans was taking part in the January 6, 2021,  assault on the US Capitol, joining hundreds of other Donald Trump supporters who refused to accept his defeat in the presidential election. Evans is not the only January 6 veteran using the assault on the Capitol as an argument for election.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Recycled 'zombie' misinformation targets US voters

    Migrants, vaccines, pedophilia rings -- old conspiracy theories are resurfacing ahead of the US election despite being repeatedly debunked, in what researchers call "zombie" falsehoods that appear to resonate with polarized voters.Yet it later grew into the sprawling QAnon conspiracy movement, which gained popularity ahead of the 2020 election.

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