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December 13, 2023

Russia delegate compares Gaza situation to Leningrad siege

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Vasily Nebenzya drew similarities between the situation in the Gaza Strip today and the siege of Leningrad during World War II....

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December 13, 2023

Ukraine, Turkiye ready to ratify free trade agreement

Ukraine and Turkiye are ready to ratify a free trade agreement “in the nearest future” which would come into force at the beginning of 2024, Ukraine’s economy ministry said...

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December 13, 2023

Rishq: ‘We welcome UN call for immediate Gaza ceasefire, urge occupation to adhere’

Member of the Hamas Political Bureau Izzat Al-Rishq welcomed the United Nations’ (UN) call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and called on the international community to hold the...

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December 13, 2023

Artists decry Bristol venue’s ‘censorship of Palestinian culture’

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, writers Alice Oswald, Nikesh Shukla, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza and Rachel Holmes are among many of Bristol’s artists...

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December 13, 2023

UN commissioner opens Global Refugee Forum with call for Gaza ‘humanitarian ceasefire’

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Wednesday opened the Global Refugee Forum with a call for an “immediate and sustained humanitarian ceasefire”. “A major...

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December 13, 2023

Iraq, UAE agree to finance trade, imports in UAE dirham

Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to finance trade and imports in Emirati dirham, Iraq state news agency said today. The two countries also agreed to launch...

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December 13, 2023

Joe Biden mistakenly refers to duration since 7 October attacks as ’65 years’

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Middle East Monitor (@middleeastmonitor) READ: WFP: 2.2m people in Gaza need urgent food assistance...

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December 13, 2023

Russia cannot recognise Israel’s methods against Hamas as ‘acceptable’

Russia’s foreign minister today said that Moscow cannot recognise Israel’s methods against the Palestinian group Hamas as “acceptable”. “From the very beginning, we strongly condemned … the Hamas terrorist...

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December 13, 2023

Saudi Arabia welcomes COP28 deal

A representative for Saudi Arabia at the COP28 summit welcomed the deal reached today, but repeated the oil producer’s stance that tackling climate change was about reducing emissions using...

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December 13, 2023

Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit today to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first...

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