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Donald Trump hands Israel full control of holiest site
Donald Trump is set to propose full sovereignty for Israel over Jerusalem’s holiest site as part of the most favourable peace plan ever offered to it, raising fears of renewed conflict over the contested land. Under the plan Israel is expected to take up to 30 per cent of the occupied West Bank, including the…
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Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted in three corruption cases after he withdrew his request for immunity hours before the Knesset had been set to pick up the issue. The Justice Ministry announced on Tuesday that the indictment had been filed at the Jerusalem District Court. Netanyahu could soon face trial for charges…
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Palestinians reject Trump Mideast plan
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan the “slap of the century” as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank. The Islamist group Hamas said it would confront Trump’s “aggressive” proposals and accused him of talking “nonsense” about Jerusalem. Confounding some predictions, Trump’s plan proposed…
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US injuries from Iran missile attack rises to 50
The Pentagon says 50 US service members are now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced. President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s January 8 attack had not killed or injured any US service…
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on corruption charges while in Washington for the unveiling of Trump’s Mideast peace plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his request for immunity in corruption charges on Tuesday morning. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit filed the criminal charges hours later in Jerusalem’s District Court. Mandelblit announced his indictment in November, but couldn’t file the charges until the request for immunity had come to an end. Netanyahu is in Washington DC…
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Camilla meets with Holocaust survivors in Poland
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has been photographed attending a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in Poland on Monday. The royal wife of Prince Charles joined the likes of Queen Letizia of Spain, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands at the service, where she walked…
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Remembering Holocaust is ‘a duty’
Persecution on the rise again as the world remembers Pope Francis said remembering the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust is a call for the world today to reflect and commit to not repeating the atrocities of the past. Speaking to pilgrims in St Peter’s Square on 26 January, the…
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The lessons of Auschwitz must never be forgotten
Seventy-five years ago the world slowly awakened to the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau as Soviet troops liberated the largest Nazi death camp in occupied southwestern Poland. In Australia, the gruesome discovery was marked in our newspapers via a snippet from Reuters, understated and naive in retrospect. It noted a “terrible concentration camp” had been captured at…
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Netanyahu pulls request for immunity
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request for immunity from prosecution, hours before parliamentary proceedings were set to begin. In a statement issued on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, Netanyahu, who was visiting Washington ahead of the launch of President Donald Trump’s peace plan, said he “decided not to let this dirty…
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Iran prepares for satellite launch
Iran is preparing a site for launching a satellite, a government minister said on Monday, highlighting a program the United States says is a cover for ballistic missile development. “Yes, a site is being prepared for placing the Zafar satellite into orbit,” Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi tweeted. The post…