Tag: war
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US – Australia defence research collaboration essential for AUKUS agreement
“The Go8 will continue to work with the Department of Defence and through the Senate Standing Committee process to help Australia take advantage of the opportunities offered by AUKUS, the capabilities contained in our Go8 universities and our strong alliances”. “We are closely engaged with our US and UK partners to increase research collaboration and build trusted…
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Israel’s Supreme Court Overturns Key Part Of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
In an 8-7 decision, the Supreme Court justices struck down the law because of the “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the State of Israel as a democratic country.” The justices also voted 12-3 that they had the authority to overturn so-called “Basic Laws,” major pieces of legislation that serve as a…
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More than 4,360 dead in Syria war in 2023
More than 4,360 people, including combatants and civilians, were killed in Syria’s civil war in 2023, in the thirteenth year since fighting began, a war monitor said on Sunday. The figure was an increase on 2022, when 3,825 people were killed. That was the lowest annual death toll since the conflict began in 2011 with…
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Majority of Israeli Jews ‘support the removal of Palestinians from Gaza’
“Israeli-Jewish society has been radicalised,” Loewenstein said. “There was a poll just this week that found 70-80 percent of Israeli Jews support the idea of finding somewhere else for Palestinians in Gaza to be removed. Israel claims that this is somehow voluntary, which is nonsense. “Gaza is being made uninhabitable deliberately and therefore there are…
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Sudan Is Unraveling as the World Looks Away
For the past nine months, the vicious war being fought in our country has been far from the attention of a distracted world. Well before the current Israel-Hamas war came to dominate headlines, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was a mere footnote on the international…