Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
This fragile Gaza peace deal masks darker truths
After 46,000 dead and countless more from disease and starvation, Palestinians can celebrate a truce, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, yet even as the Democrat and Republican leaders scramble to take credit, Israel continues killing
A CEASEFIRE in Gaza has been struck, and outgoing US President Joe Biden and incoming President-elect Donald Trump are falling over themselves to claim credit for it.
“After eight months of nonstop negotiation, my administration — by my administration — a ceasefire and hostage deal has been reached by Israel and Hamas,” said Biden during a farewell address on Wednesday.
In his typically combative style, Trump bragged on social media that “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November.”
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