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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s forces plan to invade the city of Rafah in southern Gaza despite President Joe Biden claiming that doing so would be crossing “a red line.” In an interview broadcast Saturday, Biden told MSNBC that Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost” during the Israel-Hamas war,…
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Pope Francis has called on Ukraine to have “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war against Russia. The head of the Catholic Church said: “I think that the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people, has the courage of the white flag,…
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A fourth round of aid has been airdropped into Gaza by the US military, an official told Reuters news agency. They did not offer further details on the airdrop, including its location or the number of meals delivered. The international community has been stepping up its efforts to deliver aid into Gaza in the face…
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The US president made his State of the Union address overnight – and he used it to call out Israel. Joe Biden announced the US would help build a port in Gaza to deliver aid to people starving in the enclave, and urged Israel to do more to protect civilians. He also demanded the country…
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U.S. President Joe Biden twice confused Gaza with Ukraine as he announced the US would provide desperately needed aid to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Mr Biden, 81, confirmed on Friday that humanitarian assistance would be airdropped into Gaza – a day after the Hamas-run health ministry said 30,000 Palestinians have died since the war began…
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Hunter Schafer was among dozens arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in New York City. The actor, who is best known for playing Jules Vaughn in the hit HBO series, joined more than 100 demonstrators who gathered in the lobby of NBCUniversal headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Monday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, organizers…
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US will not send troops to fight, White House says Throughout the day, we have heard officials from around the world react to France’s suggestion that the option to send troops to Ukraine should not be ruled out. Now, the White House has commented on the remarks, saying the US will not send troops to…
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Joe Biden is meeting Congress’s top four leaders today to press for quick action on a bill that includes aid for Ukraine and avoiding a government shutdown. The White House said Mr Biden invited the leaders to an Oval Office meeting to ensure US national security interests are “put first”. The US government faces a…
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United States president Joe Biden met with the widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, and his daughter, Dasha, on Thursday during the president’s trip to California. Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison last week at age 47. After her husband’s death, Yulia Navalnaya accused Putin of being involved in his death and…
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Joe Biden has said he will discuss Russia with fellow G7 leaders, as well as European Union and NATO bosses soon. The US president is expected to address the heads of the G7 alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy tomorrow via video link – on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The US rolled out hundreds of sanctions…
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Kremlin says Biden made poor attempt at being ‘Hollywood cowboy’ after Putin insult. Joe Biden’s verbal attack on Vladimir Putin appears to be developing into a war of words. In response to the US president calling Mr Putin a “crazy SOB”, the Kremlin has accused Mr Biden of making a poor attempt at appearing like…
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Biden brands Putin a ‘crazy SOB’ Joe Biden has branded Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB”, warning there is always the threat of nuclear conflict. Initially addressing the challenges of climate change, the president said: “This is the last existential threat. It is climate. We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin and others and…
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U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israel “should not proceed” with a military operation in the Palestinian city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, without a plan for the more than 1 million civilians currently sheltering in the area. Speaking alongside the visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II at the White House, Biden…
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Can Joe Biden be replaced as the Democrats’ presumptive candidate for November’s US presidential election? Murmurs around his ability to defeat Republican Donald Trump, 77, in a rematch have only grown louder after a special counsel investigation said President Biden portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory”. But with America heading towards…
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An angry, emotional President Joe Biden defended his mental competence Thursday in a rare evening address to Americans, responding to biting comments in a report released hours earlier on his mishandling of classified documents. Appearing on live television from the White House, Biden was furious over the report’s claim that he was unable to remember…
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Democrats are seeing a special counsel’s report portraying President Joe Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” as a disaster that could hinder his chances of reelection even more than criminal charges over his handling of classified documents would have done. “It’s a nightmare,” one House Democrat, who asked to speak…
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