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Zelenskiy calls for rapid operations changes for soldiers, sacks commander

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine’s military and announced the dismissal of the commander of the military’s medical forces.

November 20, 2023 3:24 pm
 

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Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital

Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive.

November 20, 2023 2:18 pm
 

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Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president

Argentina elected libertarian outsider Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday, rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty.

November 20, 2023 12:08 pm
 

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Three more journalists killed in Gaza in Israeli offensive, relatives say

The head of a prominent media institution in Gaza and two other journalists were killed during the weekend in Israel’s offensive in the territory, their relatives said on Sunday, adding to the dozens of reporters who have died in the six-week conflict.

November 20, 2023 11:47 am
 

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Palestinians search for shelter as wider Israeli campaign mounts

As Israel prepares to widen its military campaign in Gaza, Palestinians such as 80-year-old Mahrous Nasrallah wonder if there will be anywhere left to shelter in the tiny enclave where entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble.

November 20, 2023 10:45 am
 

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Argentina votes in nail-biter election with libertarian slight favorite

Argentines headed to the polls on Sunday in a closely contested presidential runoff, with two starkly different visions for the country’s future on offer and an electorate simmering with anger at triple-digit inflation and rising poverty.

November 20, 2023 9:27 am
 

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Israel says 55-metre fortified tunnel found under Gaza's Shifa hospital

Israel published video of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian militants under the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, a focus of its search-and-destroy missions against Hamas in a war now in its seventh week.

November 20, 2023 8:25 am
 

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Israeli air strikes kill 47 in southern Gaza ahead of offensive against Hamas

Israel prepared on Sunday to expand its offensive against Hamas militants to southern Gaza after air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians, including civilians reported to be sheltering at two schools.

November 19, 2023 5:07 pm
 

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Trump vows to kill Asia trade deal being pursued by Biden if elected

Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden if he were to win the 2024 election and return to the White House.

November 19, 2023 4:11 pm
 

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Zelenskiy slaps sanctions on 108 people, 37 Russian groups

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other “Russian terror”.

November 19, 2023 3:10 pm
 

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El Salvador hosts Miss Universe as protesters denounce mass arrests

At least 300 people protested in El Salvador against an anti-gang crackdown they said was putting innocent people behind bars, hours before the Central American country hosts the Miss Universe competition for the first time since 1975.

November 19, 2023 2:13 pm
 

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Jailed Russian nationalist nominates himself for president

Igor Girkin, a prominent ultranationalist in custody in Russia awaiting trial on charges of inciting extremism, nominated himself to run for president in 2024 in an announcement read on his behalf, the online SOTA news channel said.

November 19, 2023 12:41 pm

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