Israel tells army to prepare plan for Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza
Order comes after Donald Trump suggested US take over territory and resettle its residents elsewhere
Israel’s defence minister has ordered the military to prepare plans to allow Palestinians “who wish to leave” Gaza to exit, after Donald Trump suggested the US take over the territory and resettle its residents in other countries.
Israel Katz said the military plan would include options to leave via land, air and sea. “The people of Gaza should have the right to freedom of movement and migration,” he said in a statement on X, although it was clear that the journeys would only be in one direction.
Before the war, Israel’s tight controls on movement in and out of the strip made it difficult for Palestinians to travel internationally. Restrictions got even tighter after the conflict began, and after Israeli troops began operating near the Rafah crossing last May it was impossible for Palestinians to leave.
India opposition chides Modi over 'humiliating' deportations
India's opposition has lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over an alleged ill-treatment of Indian immigrants deported by the United States and are demanding a discussion in the parliament on Thursday.
A US military plane carrying 104 Indian migrants — deported as part of US President Donald Trump's immigration agenda — landed in northern India's Punjab State on Wednesday.
Several Indian newspapers published accounts of some migrants claiming that they were handcuffed and their legs were chained on the US plane, and were later opened when they reached the Amritsar airport.
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Australia passes tough hate crime laws with mandatory jail time for Nazi salutes
Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism.
The laws will impose minimum jail sentences between 12 months for less serious hate crimes, such as giving a Nazi salute in public, and six years for those found guilty of terrorism offenses.
“I want people who are engaged in antisemitism to be held to account, to be charged, to be incarcerated,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had initially opposed mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes, told Sky News.
North Koreans ‘disappear’ amid heavy Russian casualties in Ukraine war
South Korea’s assessment comes as Ukraine’s stout defence takes a growing toll for every square kilometre Russia seizes.
North Korean soldiers fighting against Ukraine have disappeared from the battlefield, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported this week.
“Since mid-January, there have been no signs showing North Korean troops deployed to the Russian Kursk region engaging in battle,” the NIS said on Tuesday.
An estimated 11,000 North Koreans were deployed to Kursk last December, to help Russia fight a Ukrainian counterinvasion launched last August.
US sanctions Iranian network after 'maximum pressure' campaign restarts
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House
A short while ago, the US Department of the Treasury announced it was sanctioning an international network for allegedly facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil, just days after Donald Trump moved to re-start the "maximum pressure" campaign against the country.
In a statement, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, says that the oil was being shipped on behalf of the general staff of the Iranian Armed Forces and through two front companies.
Individuals in China, India and the UAE are also targeted by the sanctions, as well as several ships.
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