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Middle East conflict live updates: ICJ weighing order for Israel to halt Rafah operation

16. 5. 2024 | The International Court of Justice will hear South Africa’s request to order Israel to halt its Rafah offensive. Nearly 600,000 have fled the area, the U.N. said.

Top U.N. court to hold hearings on Israel’s attacks on Rafah

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Jewish staffer resigns from Biden administration over Gaza

16. 5. 2024 |

Who is Robert Fico, the Slovakian prime minister who was shot?

16. 5. 2024 | Fico, who was seriously wounded in the attack, was sworn in as prime minister for the fourth time last year after campaigning on a pro-Russian, anti-American platform.

Putin arrives in China amid global consternation over Ukraine war

16. 5. 2024 | The Russian and Chinese leaders are expected to emphasize their shared objective of reshaping global power and ending U.S. dominance over world affairs.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico shot and gravely injured

16. 5. 2024 | Robert Fico was shot five times, an act of violence that left Slovakia’s populist leader “fighting for his life” and the country reeling.

600,000 people have fled Rafah, U.N. says, amid Israeli operation in the city

16. 5. 2024 | Biden is poised to advance the lethal aid to Israel, U.S. officials confirmed, after pausing a bomb shipment over concerns about Israel’s planned attack on Rafah.

U.S. offers aid as Zelensky drops foreign trip due to Russian advance

16. 5. 2024 | But the Biden administration remains opposed to allowing Ukraine to strike targets inside Russian territory with U.S. weaponry — something Ukrainian policymakers have been pushing for.

As Hamas returns to the north, Israel’s Gaza endgame is nowhere in sight

15. 5. 2024 | American and Israeli officials are offering increasingly blunt assessments about Hamas’s resilience and Netanyahu’s failure to plan for postwar Gaza.

White House says it will veto GOP bill forcing weapon shipments to Israel

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Israeli forces push into Rafah city as roughly 600,000 flee fighting

15. 5. 2024 |

Jewish staffer resigns from Biden administration over Gaza

15. 5. 2024 |

U.S. lays out plans for withdrawing troops from Niger

15. 5. 2024 | A U.S. delegation will present the government of Niger this week with detailed plans for shuttering two key American bases and withdrawing all U.S. troops.

Biden administration has ‘deep concerns’ over flow of aid in Rafah

15. 5. 2024 |

Israeli defense minister urges Netanyahu to say Israel won’t rule postwar Gaza

15. 5. 2024 |

U.S. military begins moving aid pier to Gaza

15. 5. 2024 |

France declares state of emergency after ethnic tensions flare in Pacific islands of New Caledonia

15. 5. 2024 | French authorities declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia after four people were killed in riots against a change in voting rules in the French overseas territory.

A mountainous country loses its last glacier

15. 5. 2024 | The demise of La Corona, downgraded to an ice field after shrinking to less than five acres, makes Venezuela the first nation in the Andes range without a glacier.