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Israel says Iran ramping efforts to recruit spies, sow dissent on social media
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} JERUSALEM — As Israel wages a fierce war in Gaza against one of Iran’s best trained proxies, Hamas, the Islamic regime in Tehran is ramping up its effort to attack the Jewish State directly via social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Telegram. It’s recruiting Israelis of Iranian origin for spying and…
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David Lammy speech disrupted by pro-Palestine protesters in London | Labour
David Lammy’s keynote speech at a Labour-linked thinktank’s conference was disrupted by protesters who held Palestinian flags as they shouted “ceasefire now”. Security officials at London’s Guildhall rushed on Saturday to take the first two individuals out of the building, when another three protesters began shouting as Lammy tried to continue his speech at the…
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US base in Iraq targeted with dozens of missiles
The Islamic Resistance of Iraq said that it had targeted the illegal US airbase in Anbar province in the west of Iraq with missiles. Resistance groups based in Iraq have repeatedly hit US bases on Iraqi and Syrian territories with missiles and drones over the past weeks in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s crimes against…
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Iran says it ‘reserves right’ to avenge deadly Israeli strike on Damascus – Hindustan Times
Iran says it ‘reserves right’ to avenge deadly Israeli strike on Damascus Hindustan Times Continue Reading News Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/iran-says-it-reserves-right-to-avenge-deadly-israeli-strike-on-damascus-101705762188128.htmlR https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/iran-says-it-reserves-right-to-avenge-deadly-israeli-strike-on-damascus-101705762188128-amp.html
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Iran says it ‘reserves right’ to avenge deadly Israeli strike on Damascus | World News
Iran on Saturday blamed Israel for a strike on Damascus, saying it “reserves the right to respond” after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed four of its members had died. Iran on Saturday blamed Israel for a strike on Damascus. (Representational Image)(File Photo / REUTERS) Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani decried “frequent violations of Syria’s…
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‘Inhumane’ Home Office denying visas to children of migrant health workers | Immigration and asylum
The Home Office is systematically barring young children from joining their mothers in Britain despite extensive proof the women are their primary caregivers, an Observer investigation has revealed. Under an opaque policy condemned as “distressing” and “inhumane”, the government has refused dozens of visas for children of migrant single mothers, many of whom came to…
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‘Send the aeroplane to come and get us, Mummy’: The children barred from joining their mothers in Britain | Immigration and asylum
Every day since arriving in Britain, Yvonne, a nurse in the NHS, has FaceTimed her two daughters back home in Zimbabwe. Often the calls end in tears. Other days, the younger girl, aged four, asks difficult questions like, “When can you send the aeroplane to come and get us, Mummy?” “It’s heartbreaking,” Yvonne says. “I…
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Amateur archaeologist discovers bizarre Roman object that has baffled for centuries near Sheffueld
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A group of amateur archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman object that has baffled experts for centuries. The group of local volunteers from the small village of Norton…
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‘No-one should be dying after a shoulder pain from golf’: death of Briton raises fresh questions about drug Nolotil | Spain
On an October evening last year, Summer Moses stood at her partner’s bedside in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Spain and agreed the life support systems could be switched off. Her partner, Mark Brooks, lay under a transparent cover surrounded by tubes and machines. His body was swollen, blistered and broken. Moses…
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Residential building destroyed in attack that killed IRGC members in Syria | Israel War on Gaza News
An air raid on the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the Syrian capital, Damascus, tore into a multistorey residential building and left several people killed. The target of Saturday’s attack was an intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), sources told Al Jazeera. The IRGC said an attack by Israeli fighter jets killed five of…
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