The Forever War in Gaza – Foreign Affairs

  1. The Forever War in Gaza  Foreign Affairs
  2. Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik  The Guardian
  3. Ashes In Holy Sand: Theatre Of Genocide And Death Of International Law In Gaza, By Dr. Oyekolade Oyesanya  saharareporters.com
  4. The brutally honest truth about Palestine | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah
  5. Israel’s brutality in Gaza surpasses all recent forms of terrorism  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
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Ukraine is stuck with Musk’s Starlink for now – politico.eu

  1. Ukraine is stuck with Musk’s Starlink for now  politico.eu
  2. Exclusive: Germany funds Eutelsat internet in Ukraine as Musk tensions rise  Reuters
  3. Berlin Reportedly Funds Kyiv’s Satellite Internet in Secret via French Provider Eutelsat  Kyiv Post
  4. Ukraine Gets a European Alternative to Elon Musk’s Satellites  MSN
  5. Eutelsat admits it cannot yet replace Starlink for Ukraine  Українська правда
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World markets plunge with Japan’s Nikkei diving nearly 8% after big Wall St. meltdown – NPR

  1. World markets plunge with Japan's Nikkei diving nearly 8% after big Wall St. meltdown  NPR
  2. Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Global Stocks and U.S. Futures Drop as Trade War Intensifies  The New York Times
  3. Overseas stock markets plunge, U.S. futures tumble as tariff turmoil continues  CBS News
  4. Markets in Asia and Europe fall sharply as Trump’s tariffs spark recession fears  The Washington Post
  5. Stocks plunge on tariff turmoil, markets bet on rapid US rate cuts  Reuters
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Asian markets plunge further amid tariff fallout; Trump says ‘sometimes you have to take medicine’ – business live

Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbles nearly 9% on Monday as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng down 8% and South Korea trading temporarily halted amid Trump tariff concerns

Hong Kong stocks have plummeted more than 9% at open, while Singapore stocks dropped over 7%, according to reports.

Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of the widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession, Reuters says.

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Asian markets plunge further amid tariff fallout; Trump says ‘sometimes you have to take medicine’ – business live

Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbles nearly 9% on Monday as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng down 8% and South Korea trading temporarily halted amid Trump tariff concerns

Hong Kong stocks have plummeted more than 9% at open, while Singapore stocks dropped over 7%, according to reports.

Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of the widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession, Reuters says.

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Australia opposition leader ditches plan to end work from home – BBC

  1. Australia opposition leader ditches plan to end work from home  BBC
  2. Could the Coalition’s spectacular backdown be the circuit breaker that Peter Dutton needs?  The Guardian
  3. Australian conservatives withdraw campaign pledge to stop remote work for public employees  AP News
  4. How Dutton's work-from-home crackdown came undone  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  5. Australian Opposition Dumps Trump-Style Return to Office Policy  Bloomberg.com
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Trump Tariffs Imperil the US Asia Pivot – Geopolitical Monitor

  1. Trump Tariffs Imperil the US Asia Pivot  Geopolitical Monitor
  2. How tariffs work and why they are a key part of Trump's agenda  NBC News
  3. A few countries offer to drop all tariffs on U.S. in response to Trump  The Detroit News
  4. What measures are Asian policymakers taking as market rout deepens?  Reuters
  5. My Take | The United States, not China, turns out to be the real bogeyman  South China Morning Post
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Asian share markets routed in early trading as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’

US president tells reporters the levies are ‘medicine to fix something’ as Nikkei tumbles nearly 9% in early trading, worsening huge losses from last week’s announcement

Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine,” as markets in Asia plunged in early trading on Monday.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already wiped out nearly $6tn in value from US stocks. “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said.

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Asian share markets routed in early trading as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’

US president tells reporters the levies are ‘medicine to fix something’ as Nikkei tumbles nearly 9% in early trading, worsening huge losses from last week’s announcement

Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine,” as markets in Asia plunged in early trading on Monday.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already wiped out nearly $6tn in value from US stocks. “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said.

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Trump, Unbowed, Is Enacting Change on Scale Rarely Seen Before – WSJ

  1. Trump, Unbowed, Is Enacting Change on Scale Rarely Seen Before  WSJ
  2. Trump is disrupting everything — why isn’t Congress doing anything?  The Hill
  3. ‘What you’re witnessing is a revolution.’ Making sense of Trump’s head-spinning moves.  Atlantic Council
  4. You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad  Liberal Currents
  5. Views from the nation’s press  Longmont Times-Call
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‘We’ve made a mistake’: Peter Dutton backs down on work from home policy

The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies

The Coalition spectacularly reversed its policy to restrict work from home arrangements and sack 41,000 government employees, walking away from plans to make major changes to the public service.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has admitted he “made a mistake” and “got it wrong” with the unpopular plan, backing down on the signature policy and raising questions about how the Coalition will pay for major election promises it said it would fund with savings from cutting the public service.

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