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Hamas’ cease-fire agreement is like a ‘jailhouse conversion’: Mike Pompeo – Fox News
- Hamas' cease-fire agreement is like a 'jailhouse conversion': Mike Pompeo Fox News
- 'People will die': Israel seizes Rafah crossing, cuts off vital aid route Al Jazeera English
- Netanyahu: Hamas offer aimed at 'sabotaging' Rafah op, is 'very far' from Israeli demands The Times of Israel
- Hamas's Offer to Hand Over 33 Hostages Includes Some Who Are Dead The New York Times
- Al Jazeera airs footage of Palestinians in Gaza reportedly celebrating news that Hamas agrees to a ceasefire proposal. Yahoo! Voices
US knew of mediators’ altered proposal to Hamas, did not inform Israel — report – The Times of Israel
- US knew of mediators’ altered proposal to Hamas, did not inform Israel — report The Times of Israel
- Israel frustrated with U.S. over hostage talks Axios
- Netanyahu, trapped by Hamas' 'Yes,' is driving a wedge between Israel and the U.S. Haaretz
- NYT: Mediators 'frustrated' by Hamas's now rejecting deal terms it proposed in March The Times of Israel
- Biden Officials "outraged" Over Hamas Response To Hostage Talks - I24NEWS i24NEWS
Israeli army takes control of Rafah crossing in Gaza
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Biden admin should check Hamas’ Ministry of Health death stats, expert warns – Fox News
- Biden admin should check Hamas' Ministry of Health death stats, expert warns Fox News
- Hamas says Gaza death toll at 34789 The Times of Israel
- 34735 Palestinians killed and 78108 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7 - Gaza health ministry Reuters.com
- I lost 31 relatives to Israeli attacks in Gaza. But I blame Hamas too The Times
- Hamas health ministry can't find 10,000 names of those it claims died JNS.org
Protesters block roads to demand Israel accept ceasefire-hostage deal, halt Rafah push – The Times of Israel
- Protesters block roads to demand Israel accept ceasefire-hostage deal, halt Rafah push The Times of Israel
- Thousands rally across Israel calling for Netanyahu to accept ceasefire deal The Guardian
- Hostage families urge US, other countries to press Israel to reach deal with Hamas The Times of Israel
- ‘It’s not done until it’s done,’ former hostage negotiator warns about ceasefire deal CNN
- Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest for Hostage, Cease-fire Deal Amid Reported Progress in Gaza Talks - Israel News Haaretz
Belgian and Dutch students protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, says the prime minister needs to “pick the phone up” and speak directly to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, after the Australian government accused a Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares close to an Australian helicopter in international waters.
The defence minister, Richard Marles, yesterday branded the incident as “unacceptable” and said the Australian pilot had to take evasive action to avoid the flares. You can read all the details below:
I think the prime minister needs to pick the phone up, frankly, and speak to the Chinese president … and express our deep concern, because at some stage, there’s going to be a miscalculation and an Australian defence force member is going to lose their life.
And that is a tragic circumstance that has to be avoided at all costs, but there will be a miscalculation by somebody who’s flying that jet or somebody who’s on the deck of a Chinese naval ship, something will happen.
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Threats to school of Perth student who was shot by police dismissed as ‘hacking’
Police have no concerns for safety, Rossmoyne senior high school principal says, after messages on an internal service threatening to ‘shoot up the school’ were investigated
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Fresh threats to “shoot up the school” attended by the teenager who was shot dead by police in Perth on the weekend have been dismissed as a hacking incident, with the school insisting there was no threat to students.
The 16-year-old was fatally shot by police in a car park in Willetton on Saturday night after he stabbed a stranger in the back. The teenager, a white convert to Islam, was known to police and had been in a deredicalisation program for two years.
Continue reading...‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024
Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the work of Samuel Beckett. The programme includes four specially commissioned productions, one involving prisoners at HMP Liverpool.
The Line of Duty actor said of Beckett: Unbound 2024: “Engaging with Beckett makes you think about the fundamentals of life. Those fundamentals are sometimes hard to engage with, but at the end, when he drives everything to a conclusion, he also makes you feel something that is liberating.”
Beckett: Unbound, Liverpool and Paris, 30 May–7 June
Continue reading...Australian couple sentenced to decades in prison for child sex abuse after using victims as ‘playthings’
One man sentenced to 37 years behind bars and other to 26 years for ‘prolonged and egregious’ abuse
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Two men who committed hundreds of acts of child sexual abuse – including against family members and children at a childcare centre – have been sentenced to decades in prison for their crimes.
The men, aged 25 and 30, used their many victims as “playthings” before their arrests in June 2020, a judge declared on Tuesday during their sentencing in Sydney.
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