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Shortly before the start of the Eurovision Song Contest final, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz backed Israeli participant Eden Golan. "Eden proudly stands against immense hate and anti-Semitism. Tonight, let's show all the haters who's leading the way!" Katz wrote on the social media platform X. Israel's participation and contribution had faced enormous headwinds in the run-up to and during the music festival. Due to the war in Gaza, there were calls for Israel to be excluded from the competition. Thousands gathered at demonstrations in the Swedish host city of Malmö to protest against th...
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Staff at VRT, the main public service broadcaster for Belgium's Flemish community, interrupted footage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday to display a message protesting Israel's military action in the Gaza strip. "This is a union action. We condemn human rights violations by the state of Israel," the message at the beginning and end of the broadcast read. "Furthermore, the state of Israel is destroying freedom of the press. That's why we're now briefly interrupting the image." The message concluded with the social media hashtags "#CeasfireNow" and "#StopGenocide." Israel la...
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Staff at VRT, the main public service broadcaster for Belgium's Flemish community, interrupted footage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday to display a message protesting Israel's military action in the Gaza strip. "This is a union action. We condemn human rights violations by the state of Israel," the message at the beginning and end of the broadcast read. "Furthermore, the state of Israel is destroying freedom of the press. That's why we're now briefly interrupting the image." The message concluded with the social media hashtags "#CeasfireNow" and "#StopGenocide." Israel la...
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An explosion at a military base of a powerful Iran-allied militia in Iraq left one militiaman dead and eight others injured, the Iraqi army reported on Saturday amid reports that the facility came under airstrikes. The casualties resulted from a blast and a fire early Saturday at Camp Kalsu in the province of Babil in Iraq, housing premises of the Iraqi security forces and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), the Security Media Cell added, according to Iraq’s official news agency INA. A committee has been formed to investigate the cause of the blast and fire, it said, citing initial findings ...
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A group of nine Google employees was arrested on Tuesday night, after staging an eight-hour sit-in at the company's offices in New York and California. The employees were protesting against Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, an Israeli government contract worth $1.2 billion that covers cloud computing and artificial intelligence services from Google and Amazon Web Services. During the sit-in, workers in New York occupied the common area of the Chelsea office's 10th floor, while employees at the Sunnyvale, California campus took over the office of Google Cloud chief executive officer Thoma...
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The pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement extended its congratulations to Iran on Sunday for what it described as a "qualitative and unprecedented attack" against Israel. Hezbollah, which is trained and financed by Iran, praised what termed as a "brave and wise decision to respond firmly to the Zionist aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus." "The Islamic Republic has exercised its natural and legal right despite threats, intimidation and pressure, and has implemented its sincere promise with unparalleled courage and great wisdom," a statement by the movement said. The movement said tha...
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Syria said Sunday that the Iranian retaliation for the strike on its consulate in Damascus is a "legitimate right," state media reported. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad during a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart stressed that the Iranian "response to the Zionist entity is a legitimate right to self-defense." Meanwhile, the state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA) cited a Foreign Ministry statement as saying that "the Iranian strikes on Israeli military targets came within the framework of Iran exercising its right to self-defence," a statement by the Syrian Foreign Ministry said...
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Residents of Damascus have been sensitive to booming sounds since a suspected Israeli bombardment targeted an Iranian embassy building in the Syrian capital earlier this week, a war monitor reported on Saturday. On Monday, two brigadier generals and five other members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, triggering vows of retribution from Tehran. Israel has not commented on the incident. Residents of Damascus have since been panicked by any powerful sounds, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Righ...
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The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip were transferred to Egypt's Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian broadcaster reported on Wednesday, as Israel's allies kept up their demands for explanations. State-linked al-Qahera News TV said ambulances carrying the bodies of a number of the relief workers arrived at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing near Gaza. Seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they were returning from a full day's mission. They were three Britons, one Australian, ...
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The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip were transferred to Egypt's Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian broadcaster reported on Wednesday. State-linked al-Qahera News TV said ambulances carrying the bodies of a number of the relief workers arrived at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing near Gaza. Seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they were returning from a full day's mission, the US-based aid organization said. They were three Britons, one Australian and one Polish nationa...
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