Arab leaders, UN endorse Egypt’s $53 billion Gaza plan – DW (English)

  1. Arab leaders, UN endorse Egypt's $53 billion Gaza plan  DW (English)
  2. Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza as an alternative to Trump’s proposal  The Associated Press
  3. Trump sticking to Gaza relocation plan, as White House seems to dismiss Egyptian proposal  Fox News
  4. Arab Plan for Gaza Leaves Thorny Issues Unanswered  The New York Times
  5. Israel’s “condemnation” of Arab League’s Gaza plan “meaningless”  Al Jazeera English
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Controversial floats of Trump, Putin and Elon Musk with swastika leave people shocked at German parade – UNILAD

  1. Controversial floats of Trump, Putin and Elon Musk with swastika leave people shocked at German parade  UNILAD
  2. Video. Germany’s Carnival: Colourful Parades, political satire and controversy  Euronews
  3. From Trump to Putin, Germany’s Carnival puts politics on parade  South China Morning Post
  4. German police on alert after Islamic State calls for carnival attacks  Reuters
  5. Daring German carnival floats mock Trump, Putin and AfD  Yahoo
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Europe is running out of hope Trump is still open to persuasion over Ukraine

Where the US president sees a convivial leader an ocean away, Europeans see a tyrant on its borders breaking all agreements

In the Four Quartets TS Eliot wrote “humankind cannot bear very much reality”.

At moments in history like these, when there is simply too much head-spinning change and too many postwar assumptions being ripped from their moorings, it sometimes appears too much for any human to absorb, let alone offer a response.

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AP files amended complaint against White House over press pool ban

White House adviser’s quote included in suit: ‘The AP and the WHCA wanted to f--k around. Now it’s finding out time.’

The Associated Press amended its complaint against the Trump administration on Monday, including in its epigraph a punchy quote from an anonymous White House adviser: “The AP and the White House Correspondents Association wanted to f--k around. Now it’s finding out time.”

The unnamed White House adviser’s quote came about during an exchange on 25 February 2025 and was first reported by Axios last week.

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Songs Yarden Bibas chose to play at funeral of his wife and sons now top Spotify viral chart – Ynetnews

  1. Songs Yarden Bibas chose to play at funeral of his wife and sons now top Spotify viral chart  Ynetnews
  2. 'Could have been saved': MK reads Yarden Bibas letter to Netanyahu in Knesset  The Jerusalem Post
  3. 'I Don't Know What It Does for Them. I Know What It Does for Me': At the Bibas' Shiva  Haaretz
  4. At Funeral for Shiri Bibas and Children, an Israeli Outpouring of Grief  The New York Times
  5. What Israel’s leaders, Donald Trump, and the rest of the free world owe Yarden Bibas  The Times of Israel
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Pentagon policy chief hearing highlights GOP foreign policy divide – POLITICO

  1. Pentagon policy chief hearing highlights GOP foreign policy divide  POLITICO
  2. Trump’s Pick for Key Pentagon Role Faces Off With GOP Hawks  Foreign Policy
  3. Contentious Trump Defense Pick Stresses pro-Israel Credentials in Senate Confirmation Hearing  Haaretz
  4. GOP senators grill Trump defense nominee on Iran, Taiwan, NATO  The Hill
  5. Trump DOD pick says military force an option to prevent nuclear Iran  USA TODAY
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Germany’s future coalition partners to relax debt rules to boost defence budget

Conservative alliance and Social Democrats to propose exempting spending of more than 1% of GDP on defence

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government have said they will seek to loosen rules on running up debt to allow for higher defence spending.

They said they will also seek to set up a huge €500bn ($533bn ) fund to finance spending on Germany’s infrastructure over the next 10 years.

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Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered – The New York Times

  1. Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered  The New York Times
  2. Rare Handwritten Copy of Famous Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library  Gizmodo
  3. Rare handwritten Shakespeare sonnet found in Oxford, England  Semafor
  4. Oxford University researcher uncovers hidden copy of Shakespeare sonnet  University of Oxford
  5. Rare Handwritten Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library  BroadwayWorld
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Israel says Hamas must commit to free more hostages for ceasefire to be extended – The Times of Israel

  1. Israel says Hamas must commit to free more hostages for ceasefire to be extended  The Times of Israel
  2. Gaza food prices spike and shortages loom after Israel halts aid  BBC.com
  3. Updates: Israel ramps up threats against Hamas in bid to change truce deal  Al Jazeera English
  4. Gazans Worry as Israeli Border Block Sends Food Prices Climbing  The New York Times
  5. A Political Dilemma for Israel's Prime Minister  NPR
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Pentagon nominee deflects on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in hearing – Defense News

  1. Pentagon nominee deflects on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in hearing  Defense News
  2. Nominee for top DoD policy job sidesteps questions on Russian invasion of Ukraine  Breaking Defense
  3. Defense deputy secretary pick avoids saying Russia invaded Ukraine  POLITICO
  4. Sen. Mark Kelly exposes the truth: Everyone is lying about Ukraine | Opinion  The Arizona Republic
  5. Sen. King presses Pentagon nominee about Russian invasion of Ukraine  WABI
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Arab leaders endorse Egyptian counterproposal to Trump’s Gaza plan – PBS NewsHour

  1. Arab leaders endorse Egyptian counterproposal to Trump’s Gaza plan  PBS NewsHour
  2. LIVE: Israel, US reject Egypt’s Gaza plan, Hamas welcomes it  Al Jazeera English
  3. Full text: The Arab-backed plan for Gaza reconstruction  The Times of Israel
  4. Arab states adopt Egyptian alternative to Trump's 'Gaza Riviera'  Reuters
  5. Arab States Propose Alternative to Trump’s Gaza Plan  The New York Times
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Boy, 16, dies after being shot in south London

Metropolitan police officers working to identify teenager and contact next of kin after killing in Stockwell

A 16-year-old boy has died after being shot in south London on Tuesday afternoon, the Metropolitan police have said.

Police were called at 3.21pm to reports of a shooting on Paradise Road near Stockwell tube station. Paramedics from the London ambulance service and the air ambulance travelled to the scene but the boy was pronounced dead.

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