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Israel approves extension of Gaza ceasefire

The Israeli government has approved a temporary expansion of the Gaza ceasefire for the next six weeks, covering the period of Muslim Ramadan and Jewish Passah.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced immediately after the first phase of the first agreed ceasefire ending at midnight on Saturday.Netanyahu’s office stated that under a ceasefire proposal by US […]

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US judge halts Trump administration’s calls for mass firings at agencies

Republican president and Elon Musk spearheading unprecedented effort to shrink federal bureaucracy A federal judge from California temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Thursday by ordering the Trump administration by ordering the US Department of Defense and other federal agencies, so that thousands of recently recent employees were largely firing firing firing.US District Judge William

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Musk, tariffs and tensions – takeaways from Trump’s first cabinet meeting

On Wednesday, Donald Trump held his first cabinet meeting at the White House.He turned the event into a lengthy Q&A session that lasted more than an hour. Speaking alongside his cabinet—and billionaire Elon Musk, who wore a “tech support” T-shirt—Trump discussed a wide range of topics, from Doge’s efforts to cut government spending to immigration,

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US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine

In UN votes to commemorate the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has voted twice in favour of Russia, highlighting the Trump administration’s shift in position regarding the war. First, the two nations opposed a resolution that the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York passed, which supported Ukraine’s territorial

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List accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers

US government employees received an email on Saturday afternoon, in which they were asked to list their achievements or resign from last week – the latest development in the efforts of the Trump administration targeting the federal workforce.The tweet by billionaire Trump confidant Elon Musk, in which he stated that workers would “shortly receive an

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Trump calls Zelensky a ‘dictator’ as rift between two leaders deepens

Watch: Trump repeats ‘dictator’ comments concerning President Zelensky President Trump has gone through the day going after Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, considering him a “tyrant” and extending the crack between the two chiefs. His assaults came after Zelensky, responding to US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia from which Kyiv was barred, said the US president was

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The Future of Whistleblower Protections Under Trump

A supporter of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stands outside the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Carlos Barria | Reuters The Trump organization believes the High Court should allow the terminating of the top of the government organization committed to safeguarding informants, as per archives acquired Sunday that would check

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