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Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Serbia on May 7, a symbolic date that is the 25th anniversary of the accidental Nato bombing of China’s embassy in Belgrade.

Xi is visiting Serbia as one of three stops on a tour of Europe, between his visits to France and Hungary. The two East European countries on his tour have both emerged as important allies of China in the region, and have benefited from inflows of Chinese investment.

Xi referred to the embassy bombing in an opinion piece published in the daily Politika on May 7, writing of the importance of peace as well as China’s resolve to prevent such tragedies from recurring.

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TRIPOLI: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Libya on Tuesday to sign cooperation agreements with leaders from both administrations in the North African country.

Accompanied by a ministerial delegation, Meloni held discussions with leaders from both administrations in Libya, focusing on bolstering cooperation in various sectors.

During her second visit to Libya since assuming office in October 2022, Meloni met with the head of the Tripoli-based government, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, to finalize several “declarations of intent” aimed at enhancing collaboration. According to Libyan officials, these agreements encompass areas such as health, education, research, youth, and sports.

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Sanders says that he will run for another term as country faces ‘difficult political moment’ amid schisms over Gaza.

United States Senator Bernie Sanders, the 82-year-old leftist and two-time presidential candidate from Vermont, has announced that he will run for reelection amid rumours of possible retirement.

Sanders, whose presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020 galvanised young people and progressives, announced on Monday that he would run for a fourth six-year term in the US Senate.

“Let me thank the people of Vermont, from the bottom of my heart, for giving me the opportunity to serve them in the United States Senate. It has been the honour of my life,” Sanders, an independent, said in a video recording.

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(JERUSALEM) — Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but there was no immediate word from Israel, leaving it uncertain whether a deal had been sealed to bring a halt to the seven-month-long war in Gaza.

It was the first glimmer of hope that a deal might avert further bloodshed. Hours earlier, Israel ordered some 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating the southern Gaza town of Rafah, signaling that an attack was imminent. The United States and other key allies of Israel oppose an offensive on Rafah, where around 1.4 million Palestinians, more than half of Gaza’s population, are sheltering.

An official familiar with Israeli thinking said Israeli officials were examining the proposal, but the plan approved by Hamas was not the framework Israel proposed.

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This is the moment Gazans celebrated after Hamas says it accepted the terms of a ceasefire plan put forward by Qatari and Egyptian mediators.

Video shows people jumping up and down and chanting joyously outside Al Aqsa hospital in Central Gaza.

A Hamas official says the “ball [is] now in Israel’s court” after the Palestinian group said it told mediators it would accept the ceasefire proposal.

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Hamas informed Arab mediators that it would approve a Qatari-Egyptian cease-fire proposal, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement Monday. There has been no response yet from Israel, which earlier in the day ordered about 100,000 civilians in parts of Rafah to evacuate “immediately” to a humanitarian zone. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Monday, President Biden reiterated his opposition to a ground invasion of Rafah and provided an update on negotiations in Doha, according to a White House readout of the conversation.

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Shockwaves from Israel’s military operation in Gaza have reverberated into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where security forces and emboldened Jewish settlers have reportedly ramped up attacks on Palestinian communities.

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack sparked the conflict in Gaza, Israeli settlers have carried out 603 attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, expelling 1,222 people from 19 herding communities, according to UN figures.

Armed settlers have also killed at least nine Palestinians, while Israeli security forces have killed 396 others in the past few months.

Likewise, the Israeli army has intensified raids. On May 4, Israeli forces raided Tulkarem and killed five Palestinians, including four Hamas members. On April 20, Israeli forces carried out a raid in the same governorate, home to more than 6,400 refugees, killing 14 Palestinians.

Abeer, who runs a small business in Jenin, has observed a “surge in settler attacks, the proliferation of checkpoints, daily raids on Palestinian homes, infrastructure destruction, killing of Palestinian youths, and increased Israeli military airstrikes.”

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The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health released an infographic on April 24 through social media site Telegram indicating that it lacked identifying data for more than 10,000 of the 34,183 so-called martyrs who had been killed in the 200 days following Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Despite growing concerns over the Ministry of Health’s figures, the Biden administration continues to cite the ministry’s data with no reference to its origin. In October, President Biden claimed that he had “no confidence” in Ministry of Health figures. In his March, State of the Union address, Biden shared the ministry’s data with a global audience without referencing its origin, noting that “more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not Hamas.”

David Adesnik, senior fellow and director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that the incompleteness of data entries for 10,152 victims in an earlier April 21 data set should be “a flashing red light” for onlookers who have previously trusted ministry calculations of the death toll in Gaza.

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Poland is verifying if a Polish judge who had access to confidential information and asked for political asylum in Belarus had been spying, authorities said Monday.Earlier on Monday, Tomasz Szmydt, a judge from a Warsaw administrative court, asked for asylum in Belarus, saying he acted in protest to Poland’s policy toward Russia and Belarus, according to a video aired by Russian TV.

 

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China is willing to launch an initiative with France, on the occasion of the Paris Olympic Games, for a worldwide truce during the Games, Chinese President Xi Jinping told reporters on Monday at a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

 

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The US State Department on Monday plans to release an ambitious new cybersecurity strategy that seeks to curb Russia and China’s digital influence in the developing world and blunt those countries’ alleged efforts to interfere in elections.

With roughly half of the world’s population holding elections in 2024, their vulnerability to “cyber-enabled interference” is “particularly acute” and requires the US to continuously expose hackers and propagandists trying to undermine confidence in democracies, says the strategy, which CNN has reviewed.

“We have communicated and will continue to communicate to Russia and to China that we view interference in our democratic processes in the United States as absolutely unacceptable,” Nate Fick, the State Department’s top cyber diplomat, said in an interview. “Secretary [Antony] Blinken has said it, and I have said it.”

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun three-way talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Xi is on his first tour of Europe in five years. On Monday, he was welcomed by President Macron at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris before the discussions started around 11 a.m.

As the meeting started, Macron said the current global situation calls for dialogue between Europe and China more than ever.

Xi said China and the EU should sustain a solid partnership as the world’s two important powers. He said they should develop stable and healthy relations and constantly contribute to global peace and prosperity.

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Displaced people including ISIS families at al-Hol camp, Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), 2019. Photo: AFP

United States announced Tuesday it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from a camp for Islamic State prisoners in Syria, its largest-ever repatriation as thousands languish.

In a complex operation involving US agencies, Kuwait and pro-US Kurdish fighters, the United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as well as a nine-year-old non-US sibling of an American, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

The United States in the same operation facilitated the repatriation of six Canadian citizens, four Dutch citizens, and one Finnish citizen, among them eight children, he said.

“This is the largest single repatriation of US citizens from northeast Syria to date,” Blinken said in a statement.

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