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NewsFeed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the PKK’s declaration of a ceasefire after a 40-year conflict, but warned that Turkiye will be ready to keep fighting if the outlawed Kurdish group fails to disband. Published On 2 Mar 20252 Mar 2025 Source link
The crash happened on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane. At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region of Bolivia, police and local authorities have said. The accident … Read more
Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal for his outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disband and disarm was a “historic opportunity” as senior members of the president’s party demanded the dissolution of PKK affiliates in Iraq and Syria. “We have a historic opportunity to advance towards the objective of destroying the … Read more
United States President Donald Trump set off alarm bells this month when, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, he said the US would “take control” of the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians in other countries. Trump framed the expulsion of the Palestinian population from the Strip – left unrecognisable by … Read more
Police charge 26-year-old woman over video that prompted widespread condemnation. A nurse in Australia has been charged with making death threats and other offences over a video appearing to show hospital staff boasting about killing and denying treatment to Israeli patients. New South Wales Police said on Wednesday that they had charged a 26-year-old woman … Read more
Is This What We Want features recordings of empty studios, performance spaces, highlighting danger to creative trade. More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest of the proposed changes to British copyright laws around artificial intelligence (AI), which they warned could lead to legalised … Read more
Humanitarian assistance experts have warned agency’s demise will harm vulnerable people and weaken US soft power. The administration of United States President Donald Trump is moving to fire or place on leave nearly all employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). All USAID employees, with the exception of “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical … Read more
Here are the key developments on the 1,095th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Sunday, February 23 – a day before the war’s third anniversary: Fighting Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence units intercepted and destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones overnight over six regions of the country on … Read more
As AfD is polling second in Germany, we look at how the far-right rose to popularity in Europe over the last 25 years. Source link
On February 10, Sudan’s largest antiwar coalition, Taqaddum, finally splintered. The disagreement was over whether to participate in a new parallel government being set up by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the belligerent parties in Sudan’s nearly two-year war. Formed in October 2023, the Taqaddum coalition included armed movements, political parties and … Read more