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Explainer: Vietnam's president resigns: who's who and what comes next?: Vietnam's once-staid political scene has erupted into turmoil with the forced resignation ...
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Explainer: Vietnam's president resigns: who's who and what comes next?
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Israel's settlers want Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip again: With the war, the settler movement sees its opportunity. Their representatives are ecstatic ...
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Israel's settlers want Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip again
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"It's an invasion": In the dispute over the protection of the US border with Mexico, Republicans are increasingly adopting shrill tones - Zofinger Tagblatt
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Live blog on the war in the Middle East: Report gives details of allegations against UNRWA employees
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Live blog on the war in the Middle East: Report gives details of ...
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Rumours swirl after China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked: The government is trickling out news of a political bombshell
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Rumours swirl after China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked
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Itamar Ben-Gvir: „Zünder im Pulverfass Nahost“ – Auf Spurensuche in der Geburtsstadt des Rechtsextremen
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Itamar Ben-Gvir: „Zünder im Pulverfass Nahost“ – Auf Spurensuche in der ...
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Allison Hanes: What is Paul Bernardo doing in Quebec?: Troubling questions — and traumatic memories — follow the transfer of the notorious schoolgirl killer to a ...
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Allison Hanes: What is Paul Bernardo doing in Quebec?
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Vietnam jails noodle vendor who parodied Salt Bae: HANOI: A Vietnam court has jailed a noodle seller who went viral for impersonating Salt Bae ...
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Vietnam jails noodle vendor who parodied Salt Bae
Quick Glance: Vietnamese noodle vendor jailed for mocking minister's dining
  • Bui Tuan Lam, a noodle vendor who publicly advocated for democracy in Vietnam and participated in anti-China and pro-environment protests, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for anti-state propaganda after allegedly mocking a top government official by imitating celebrity chef 'Salt Bae'.
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Beijing police expel prominent rights attorney from city following release: Zhou Shifeng had repeatedly accused a former security chief of wrongdoing.
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Beijing police expel prominent rights attorney from city following release
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Who will take on China’s top security jobs for the next 5 years?: The national legislature has confirmed new ministers for defence, public security and state ...
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Who will take on China’s top security jobs for the next 5 years?
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A rush of far-right initiatives by Israel’s new government raises concerns: Israel's emerging coalition will be the most hard-right and religious administration ...
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A rush of far-right initiatives by Israel’s new government raises concerns
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Mexico's former top cop on trial in New York on drug charges: Former Mexican security minister Genaro García Luna is on trial in Brooklyn, accused of taking ...
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Mexico's former top cop on trial in New York on drug charges
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A rush of far-right initiatives by Israel’s new government raises concerns: Israel's emerging coalition will be the most hard-right and religious administration ...
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A rush of far-right initiatives by Israel’s new government raises concerns
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?: The far-right nationalist will prop up Binyamin Netanyahu’s government
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?
Quick Glance: Ben-Gvir is slated to become the new security minister in the Likud coalition agreement.
  • Following elections earlier this month, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has struck its first coalition agreement with Itamar Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party in order to form a new Israeli government with far-right groups.

  • Ben-Gvir is the son of secular Iraqi Jewish immigrants and a former lawyer who lives in an illegal colony in the occupied West Bank.

  • In contravention of international law, Jewish Power has called for the legal annexation and Jewish colonization of the entire occupied West Bank, as well as the capture of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
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The intolerant, unyielding would-be defense minister: Bezalel Smotrich's insistence on a top ministerial position is no surprise; what should be shocking is ...
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The intolerant, unyielding would-be defense minister
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A Netanyahu government may raise the temperature in a boiling West Bank: Far-right ministers will increase tensions in Jerusalem, too
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A Netanyahu government may raise the temperature in a boiling West Bank
Quick Glance: US Collaboration with Israel Strengthens Any Future Annexation Plans
  • According to Tom Nides, the United States' ambassador to Israel, the Abraham Accords will feature as a continuation of a globally acknowledged U.S. policy.

  • Nides should have stated that the US is not opposed to annexation, but rather to a prospective formalization of the process, which is likely under Netanyahu.

  • He highlighted that most Arab countries oppose annexation, while failing to express that Arab states have completely failed Palestinians and that their resistance to annexation will have little impact on any future Israeli administration led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • The Abraham Accords have not slowed settlement growth.
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?: The far-right nationalist will prop up Binyamin Netanyahu’s government
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?
Quick Glance: Likud's Amsalem appears to back down from Justice Ministry demand and supports Levin for post
  • "I'll be more than happy if [fellow Likud MK] Yariv Levin is appointed the next justice minister of the State of Israel," Amsalem tweeted on Sunday morning.

  • Amsalem, renowned for his outspoken personality, reportedly told other party members last week at an event, "I will only be justice minister."

  • On May 23, 2022, Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and faction chair Yariv Levin (R) host their party's faction meeting at the Knesset.

  • Amsalem also stated his support for the abolition of the criminal charge of "breach of trust" – a crucial accusation leveled against Netanyahu in his ongoing criminal prosecution.
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?: The far-right nationalist will prop up Binyamin Netanyahu’s government
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Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s kingmaker?
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Death penalty commuted to life for China’s ex-security chief: Former deputy security minister Sun Lijun received 646 million yuan ($91m) in bribes between 2001 ...
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Death penalty commuted to life for China’s ex-security chief
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Former Chinese police boss Fu Zhenghua admits corruption: Fu Zhenghua, once one of China’s most powerful police chiefs,
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Former Chinese police boss Fu Zhenghua admits corruption
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China’s Xi names police ally to head public security ministry: BEIJING (Bloomberg): China installed Wang Xiaohong as minister of public security ...
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China’s Xi names police ally to head public security ministry
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Former police captain sentenced to three years in prison: Le Chi Thanh is now serving two sentences, with a total term of five years.
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Former police captain sentenced to three years in prison